Effect of geometric parameters of perspective on judgements of spatial information

Percept Mot Skills. 1991 Oct;73(2):619-23. doi: 10.2466/pms.1991.73.2.619.

Abstract

15 university students performed an exocentric judgement task in which they estimated the azimuth and elevation separating two computer-generated cubes, using a perspective display. The perspective displays were created by varying two geometric parameters of perspective, the geometric field of view and station-point distance. Further, the radial distance separating the computer-generated images was varied. Analysis indicated that azimuth errors varied as a function of geometric field of view, radial distance, and station-point distance, while elevation errors varied as a function of geometric field of view and radial distance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Attention
  • Computer Graphics
  • Depth Perception
  • Distance Perception
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Judgment*
  • Male
  • Mathematics*
  • Orientation*
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual*
  • Psychophysics
  • Space Perception*