Eye Candy - Science, Sight, Art

Explore the fascinating intersection of science, visual perception, and art in this 95-minute World Science Festival panel discussion. Delve into the biological principles that may universally drive art's appeal and its ability to engage our brains. Join experts Margaret S. Livingstone, Patrick Cavanagh, cartoonist Jules Feiffer, and others as they examine visual perception principles through various art forms, including Impressionism, post-modernism, political caricature, and 3D film. Discover how our brains process visual information, from combining lines to create faces to understanding 3D perception. Learn about the science behind drawing techniques, face adaptation experiments, and the challenges of creating effective 3D movies. Gain insights into topics such as stereopsis, vergence and accommodation in human vision, and theories of 3D shape representation.

Lawrence Weschler's Introduction.
Participant Introductions.
Patrick Cavanagh takes us back to the beginning.
Why are these drawing interesting to us.
Drawings and lines tell us about brains.
Margaret Livingstone on our brains combining lines to make faces.
Face adaptation experiment.
Jules Feiffer learning to draw with line.
Creating a dance on paper.
How minimal a drawing can be yet still have the same meaning.
Adding more dimensions to art and 3D movies.
The vergence and accommodation of humans.
Relative scale in 3D movies.
Making a flat plane three dimensional.
Stereopsis some have it and some don't.
How we see 3D.
3D Shape representation theory