I have a picture in my room that I never really thought to much about until this post.  It has almost all of the depth cues which we learned about in class in the picture.  The picture is of my brother and I standing outside of my house that was drawn by an artist.  The first cue that I noticed was occlusion.  The house was obviously behind my brother and I because you could see our whole bodies, but not the whole house.  Part of the house is blocked by us and also trees that are between us and the house.  The next cue I noticed when looking at the picture was linear depth cue.  You could see the river behind the house meeting with the horizon and all the rest of the picture kind of going to one spot where it looks to all vanish.  The third depth cue I saw in the picture was atmosphere perspective.  You could see that the sun which was closer to the horizon looked much farther away than the house or my brother and I.  The clouds were higher up in the sky making them look closer.  Under the horizon you can see the river which is very close to it and the water looks like it is going very far out while the trees which are drawn lower in the picture seem to almost stick out more.  Other obvious depth cues that were in the picture were familiar size.  You know how big a person is compared to a house or even compared to the river.  We looked bigger because it was the main part of the picture making the house and river behind us look much smaller.  You can find these depth cues in almost all of the pictures you will see in your life.

I was looking for things outside to write this blog on when I realized I had a picture on my wall that was perfect for this project.  First I want to go into a little bit of the rule that this picture goes with.  The global superiority effect causes us to see the whole object that a picture is portraying rather than the small parts of it that make it up.  The properties of the whole object take precedence over the properties of parts of the object.  This is also referred to as the con figural superiority effect which says that for any complex visual stimuli such as faces, they are easier to be recognized than the individual parts presented in isolation. How far away you are from the object has a lot to do with the way that you perceive it.  One example we saw of this was the picture of Marilyn Monroe, but if you were up close it looked like another person.  The picture that I have on my wall is a photo mosaic of Bob Marley.  The picture is made up of thousands of tiny pictures of different events that happened over his life in order to make up the whole picture which is a poster of his face.  If you are standing right against the picture you can see all of the tiny little pictures and have no idea that it actually makes a big picture out of all of them.  If you stand back you can’t really even tell that there are thousands of tiny pictures, but it just looks like a photo of Bob Marley.  You can find examples of these on google images, but I couldn’t really see the smaller pictures inside of the big picture on the computer screen.