Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Unit 1: How People See


You think your brain understands what you see. It is not true because your brain is interpreting what you see. When people look at three-dimensional objects, it enters the retina as two-dimensional. But, then the two-dimensional image is sent to visual cortex in the brain to be recognized as a three-dimensional image. The fusiform face area is in the brain, not part of the visual cortex (FFA). We depend on to recognize faces faster than objects. People who have autism cannot use the FFA for face recognition. They see faces the same as objects. More men than women that have color-blindness since men only have one X-chromosome, women have two X-chromosome. A color blindness person may not recognize the difference in color or the color disappears.  Many people may recognize different colors that have certain meaning in different cultures. For example, the red means financial trouble, danger or stop. Green means money, environment, and “go”. Since different cultures have color purpose, you have to consider the color selection you use.

Geon (geometric icon) is to use basic shapes to identity objects.

FFA (fusiform face area) allows faces to bypass the brain’s usual interpretive channels (visual cortex) and help the people identify faces more quickly than objects.

Canonical perspective is usually drawn from a perspective slightly above looking down and nothing askew straight from left to right.

Affordance is a visual clue to the function of an object.

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