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The ingenious Mr. Hughes: Combining forced, flat and reverse perspective all in one art piece to pit objects against surfaces

Thomas V Papathomas

Laboratory of Vision Research, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA;

papathom@rci.rutgers.edu

Nicholas Baker

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;

nbaker9@jhu.edu

Arielle S Yeshua

Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA;

yeshua@eden.rutgers.edu

Xiaohua Zhuang

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA;

zxhelsa@gmail.com

Andrew Ng

High Technology High School, Lincroft, NJ 07738, USA;

ajng21@gmail.com

 
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Abstract. The artist Patrick Hughes has ingeniously painted rows of stacked Brillo boxes in Forced into Reverse Perspective. The geometry is in reverse perspective, predicting only one type of illusory motion for each planar surface for moving viewers. He “broke” these surfaces into objects by painting the boxes in three types of perspective (planar, forced, and reverse). Our experiments confirmed that he succeeded in eliciting different types of illusory motion, including “differential motion” between boxes for most viewers. In some sense, this illustrates the superiority of secondary (painted) over primary (physical) cues.


Cite as: Papathomas T V, Baker N, Yeshua A S, Zhuang X, Ng A, 2012, "The ingenious Mr. Hughes: Combining forced, flat and reverse perspective all in one art piece to pit objects against surfaces" i-Perception 3(3) 182–185
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DOI: 10.1068/i0478sas

ISSN: 2041-6695 (electronic only)

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