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Science 8 August 1980:
Vol. 209. no. 4457, pp. 717 - 719
DOI: 10.1126/science.7394534
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Science, Vol 209, Issue 4457, 717-719
Copyright © 1980 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Minimal conditions for the visual detection of structure and motion in three dimensions

JS Lappin, JF Doner, and BL Kottas

Human observers detected the global three-dimensional organization of visual patterns consisting of only two successive frames of randomly positioned dots, corresponding to projections of a rotating sphere. A perfectly coherent sphere yielded a stable perceptual organization that was detected more accurately than other slightly less organized patterns.


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