How Big the Moon, How Fat the Eye.

Abstract

Shifts in the apparent size and distance of real objects viewed binocularly and monocularly and of objects viewed indirectly through imaging displays are accompanied by shifts in visual accommodation distance. It is hypothesized that relaxation of accommodation toward the intermediate resting position in the absence of adequate textural cues to distance attenuates the size of the projected retinal image of more distant objects, thereby causing reductions in apparent size or increases in apparent distance, including certain types of optical illusions. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA050211

Entities

People

  • Stanley N. Roscoe

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airplanes
  • Biological Sciences
  • Flight Crews
  • Illinois
  • Images
  • Jet Transport Aircraft
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Periscopes
  • Photography
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Scientific Research
  • Transport Aircraft
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.