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Visual Acuity and Perception

THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE
What is Perception

- It is the ability to understand or notice


something easily.
Types
of
Perception
> Spatial Perception
> Perception of Objects
> Perception of Shapes
> Perception of Space Depth & Distance
Spatial Perception
Mentally conditioned by the environmental and
experience of the viewer.

Types of Vision:

1. STEREOSCOPIC VISION
2. KINESTHETIC VISION
Stereoscopic Vision
Perception of Objects

Examining the object and placing together the various


sensory impressions until he has made up his mind
what it is.
Perception of Shapes
Whenever we look at objects, they seem to be clearly
outlined from their background.

‘FIGUREGROUND’ - drawings consisting of black lines

o Reversible Figure
o Fluctuations
o Impossible Figures
Reversible Figures
Reversible Figures
Fluctuation
Impossible Figures
Perception of Depth and Space
Perception of depth depends upon the direction of the
light perceived.
o Contradictory Depth Factors
o Visual Depth
o Illusions of Depth
Monocular Cues to Depth
o Superposition
o Apparent Magnitude and Relative Size
o Height in Place
o Texture

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