Finally, they examine the art of the shadow, paying tribute to artists' exploration of shadow, analyzing a series of artworks (reproduced in color) from a rich and fascinating art historical corpus. Casati and Cavanagh then apply the theoretical apparatus they have developed for shadows to other phenomena: illumination, reflection, and transparency. They discuss the shadow mission, the work done by the visual brain to parse, and perhaps discard, the information from shadows shadow ownership, the association of a shadow with the object that casts it shadow labeling, the visual system's ability to tell shadows from nonshadows and the shadow concept, our knowledge about shadows as a category. They present an overview of the visual system, distinguishing between measurement and inference. 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.Ĭasati and Cavanagh draw up an inventory of information retrievable from shadows, showing their amazing variety. Well, this and that got in his way, then my way, and it has been a long journey to get here, but now, in one perfect bound volume (With a special twist we talk about at the end) including several never before published added bonus routines, we are proud to release Michael Diamond's Complete Book Of Shadows. 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 of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness is a 1994 book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that serves as a followup to his 1989 book The Emperors New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics. How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system.

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