The Visual World of Shadows
Casati, Roberto (Senior Researcher, CNRS) / Cavanagh, Patrick (Professor, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris V)
In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh examine how the perception of shadows, as studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. Shadows are at once a massive problem for vision¿which must distinguish them from objects or material features of objects¿and a resource, signaling the presence, location, shape, and size of objects. They present an overview of the visual ...