Aaron Hertzmann

How do we understand pictures? Finally, I've finished writing this blog post summarizing my new theory of perspective perception in picture, which was published in a human vision journal earlier this year.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/10/07/picture-perception.html

New blog post, in which I propose a simple description of when pictures do or do not appear distorted, and show how multiperspective photography uses this idea to create wide-angle pictures without distortion. This idea is a crucial piece of my new perspective perception theory.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/09/09/dvc-multiperspective.html

Here's my the talk for the #SIGGRAPH 2024 Computer Graphics Achievement award, about my experiences in painting, computer graphics and the science of art. And how so much art and research are unplanned and unpredictable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgjc9KEWYk
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/08/19/journey.html

After more than 3 years of work, the official version of my paper on human perception of perspective—spanning concepts in human #visionscience, #arthistory, and #computationalphotography —is now online! https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2793609

Here are some observations about perspective in my own paintings.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/10/16/perspective-as-arrangement.html

New blog post on the surprising nature of awareness: we think we're seeing everything around us, but we're not. I'm convinced that these illusions have a lot to say in how we understand pictures, which I'll talk about in a future blog post.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/05/09/illusion-of-awareness.html

In this new preprint, I survey ways in which computer graphics research can aid scientific study of art and aesthetics, and propose a description of the goals of CG research. It may be of interest to both vision scientists studying art and CG researchers.
https://psyarxiv.com/nspwg

Some reviews and thoughts on books I read recently on consciousness and intelligence.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/09/18/books-on-consciousness.html

In this new preprint, I survey ways in which computer graphics research can aid scientific study of art and aesthetics, and propose a description of the goals of CG research. It may be of interest to both vision scientists studying art and CG researchers.
https://psyarxiv.com/nspwg
#visionscience #computergraphics

From my recent sabbatical, reflections on finding the motivation to keep drawing.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/10/14/six-years-later.html

In this blog post, I hypothesize that a few classes of visual illusions (tilt, peripheral motion, and grid illusions) can be explained by peripheral visual encoding in human vision. It's a draft in-progress that I hope to turn into a paper eventually.
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/05/24/fixations-vision-illusions.html