Abutting Objects Warp the Three-Dimensional Curvature of Modally Completing Surfaces.

ABSTRACT: Binocular disparity can give rise to the perception of open surfaces or closed curved surfaces (volumes) that appear to vary smoothly across discrete depths. Here I build on my recent papers by providing examples where modally completing surfaces not only fill in from one depth layer's visible contours to another layer's visible contours within virtual contours in an analog manner, but where modally completing surface curvature is altered by the interpolation of an abutting object perceived to be connected to or embedded within that modally completing surface. Seemingly minor changes in such an abutting object can flip the interpretation of distal regions, for example, turning a distant edge (where a surface ends) into rim (where a surface bends to occlude itself) or turning

SUBMITTER: Tse PU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7253068 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature