In this blog post, I outline a new theory for how shape perception works in pictures, specifically, how we interpret perspective. The ideas I present here can describe, at a high level, how it is that we have so many different ways to make realistic pictures, and that we can understand them. It combines ideas from human vision science, art history, and computational photography.| Aaron Hertzmann’s blog
Have you ever noticed how peoples’ faces look stretched in group selfies?| Aaron Hertzmann’s blog
A few years ago, while walking home, I noticed a dry cleaners across the street from my house. “Was that always there?” I thought, surprised. I’d walked by that spot many, many times over the years, but I’d never noticed the cleaners. A little Googling revealed that it’s been on my street for longer than I have. Yet, if you’d asked me for the nearest dry cleaners near my house, I would have answered that I didn’t know of any.| Aaron Hertzmann’s blog