Perception of Parallelism in Perspective Images

This contribution presents a study in which subjects are shown perspective views of simple shapes. The subject’s task was to decide whether the shape’s outlines were parallel to each other or not. It was observed that the subjects were strongly misled by perspective depth cues. Real parallels in orthographic projections were rarely detected. In contrast a minor convergent alignment of the outlines like in a linear perspective projection were perceived as parallel.

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