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Reflections in art

Reflections in art Spatial Vision , Vol. 21, No. 3–5, pp. 261 – 270 (2008)  Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008. Also available online - www.brill.nl/sv Reflections in art PATRICK CAVANAGH 1 , 2 , ∗ , JESSICA CHAO 1 and DINA WANG 1 1 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 2 Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris, France Received 28 June 2006; accepted 5 February 2007 Abstract —When artists depict a mirror in a painting, it necessarily lacks the most obvious property of a mirror: as we move around the painting of the mirror, the reflections we see in it do not change. And yet representations of mirrors and other reflecting surfaces can be quite convincing in paintings. Here, we will examine the rules of reflection, the many ways that painters can break those rules without losing the impression of reflection and the rules that cannot be broken. The rules that govern the perception of reflection are a small subset of the physical rules of reflection. Keywords : Reflection; symmetry; art. INTRODUCTION Reflections are not uncommon in natural scenes but until the development of mirrors, reflecting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Spatial Vision Brill

Reflections in art

Chao, Jessica; Cavanagh, Patrick; Wang, Dina
Spatial Vision , Volume 21 (3-5): 10 – Jan 1, 2008
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Spatial Vision , Vol. 21, No. 3–5, pp. 261 – 270 (2008)  Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008. Also available online - www.brill.nl/sv Reflections in art PATRICK CAVANAGH 1 , 2 , ∗ , JESSICA CHAO 1 and DINA WANG 1 1 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 2 Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris, France Received 28 June 2006; accepted 5 February 2007 Abstract —When artists depict a mirror in a painting, it necessarily lacks the most obvious property of a mirror: as we move around the painting of the mirror, the reflections we see in it do not change. And yet representations of mirrors and other reflecting surfaces can be quite convincing in paintings. Here, we will examine the rules of reflection, the many ways that painters can break those rules without losing the impression of reflection and the rules that cannot be broken. The rules that govern the perception of reflection are a small subset of the physical rules of reflection. Keywords : Reflection; symmetry; art. INTRODUCTION Reflections are not uncommon in natural scenes but until the development of mirrors, reflecting

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: ART; SYMMETRY; REFLECTION

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