Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mephisto!ncsuvx!mcnc!uvaarpa!ra!antares!olson From: olson@antares.cs.Virginia.EDU (Thomas J. Olson) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Visualisation Phenomena Message-ID: <741@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU> Date: 11 Dec 89 19:38:56 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: olson@antares.cs.Virginia.EDU (Thomas J. Olson) Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department Lines: 15 There is a fair amount of literature on these topics that you might want to check out. Your ideas have some merit, but you need to look at other views and at the psychophysical facts to tighten them up. An old but interesting and accessable treatment of what visualisation might be about is Ned Block's 'Imagery' (MIT Pr 1981). For more recent introductory material, pick up any current Cog Sci text and look up 'mental imagery' in the index. A classic and fun reference on eye momements is A.L. Yarbus 'Eye Movements and Vision', Plenum 1967. For the current standard theory on perception of velocity, see the Oct 1985 issue of J. Optical Society of America A. Have fun, Tom Olson