Pictorial Communication In Real And Virtual Environments. (1991)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stephen R. Ellis, section editor: Mary K. Kaiser, assistant section editor: Arthur C. Grunwald.
• Editors: Ellis, S (Stephen)
• Contents: BookCover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- PART I Environments -- Prologue -- 1 Physics at the edge of the Earth -- 2 Pictorial communication: pictures and the synthetic universe -- PART II Knowing -- Knowing -- 3 Perceiving environmental properties from motion information: minimal conditions -- 4 Distortions in memory for visual displays -- 5 Cartography and map displays -- 6 Interactive displays in medical art -- 7 Efficiency of graphical perception -- 8 Volumetric visualization of 3D data -- 9 The making of The Mechanical Universe -- PART III Acting -- Acting -- 10 Spatial displays as a means to increase pilot situational awareness -- 11 Experience and results in teleoperation of land vehicles -- 12 A computer graphics system for visualizing spacecraft in orbit -- 13 Design and evaluation of a visual display aid for orbital maneuvering -- 14 Telepresence, time delay and adaptation -- 15 Multi-axis control in telemanipulation and vehicle guidance -- 16 Visual enhancements in pick-and-place tasks, human operators controlling a simulated cylindrical manipulator -- 17 Target axis effects under transformed visual-motor mappings -- 18 Adapting to variable prismatic displacement -- 19 Visuomotor modularity, ontogeny and training high-performance skills with spatial instruments -- 20 Separate visual representations for perception and for visually guided behavior -- 21 Seeing by exploring -- 22 Spatial vision within egocentric and exocentric frames of reference -- 23 Comments on "Spatial vision within egocentric and exocentric frames of reference" -- 24 Sensory conflict in motion sickness an Observer Theory approach -- 25 Interactions of form and orientation -- 26 Optical, gravitational and kinesthetic determinants of judged eye level -- 27 Voluntary influences on the stabilization of gaze during fast head movements. PART IV Seeing -- Seeing -- 28 The perception of geometrical structure from congruence -- 29 The perception of three-dimensionality across continuous surfaces -- 30 The effects of viewpoint on the virtual space of pictures -- 31 Perceived orientation, spatial layout and the geometry of pictures -- 32 On the efficacy of cinema, or what the visual system did not evolve to do -- 33 Visual slant underestimation -- 34 Direction judgement error in computer generated displays and actual scenes -- 35 How to reinforce perception of depth in single two-dimensional pictures -- 36 Spatial constraints of stereopsis in video displays -- 37 Stereoscopic distance perception -- 38 Paradoxical monocular stereopsis and perspective vergence -- 39 The eyes prefer real images -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 1991
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 006.6; Computer vision; Electronic books. -- local; Space perception; Visual communication; Visual perception; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0203275918; 0203221273
• Related ISBNs: 0748400087
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