Interaction between luminance gratings and disparity gratings.

It was shown from geometry and photographic measurement that the shading pattern for a sinusoidal corrugated surface of frequency f approximates to a luminance-defined grating of frequency f, 2f or f + 2f in specific relative phase. It was confirmed that a luminance grating modifies the appearance of a suprathreshold stereoscopic corrugated surface, suggesting an interaction between shading and binocular disparity. Disparity thresholds for detecting random-dot, disparity-defined gratings of spatial frequency 0.2 or 0.4 c/deg were measured in the presence of luminance gratings of spatial frequency 0.4 c/deg with the same orientation. Phase-specific facilitation of disparity thresholds was greatest for a phase relationship inconsistent with shading of a corrugated surface, and was disrupted by positional uncertainty. The presence of texture-defined lines (which served to mark explicitly the successive spatial locations of salient depth features in the image) produced a similar pattern of facilitation, in the absence of shape-from-shading cues. The pattern of results indicates direct local interactions, including spatial cueing, rather than interaction of depth cues.

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