BEYOND LINEAR PERSPECTIVE - A CUBIST MANIFESTO FOR VISUAL SCIENCE

Both James Gibson's ecological approach to vision and recent research in computer vision have challenged linear perspective as the foundatio n for understanding either vision or pictures. There is a gro wing app reciation of the diversity of informative structures available to perc eivers, and of the fact that many of these structures are not tied to any single viewpoint. The convergences between these approaches are ex plored with reference to the existing research on picture perception a nd production.