The Effect of Warm and Cool Object Colors on Depth Ordering

A study on the effect of color on depth. A longer version can be found <a href=\"https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/166/\">here</a>. Colors that appear closer to the red end of the visible spectrum are said to be warm while the colors that appear closer to the blue end are said to be cool. The phenomenon of warmer colors appearing nearer in depth to viewers than cooler colors has been studied extensively by psychologists and other vision researchers (see [Sundet 1978] for a summary). The vast majority of these studies have asked human observers to view physically equidistant, colored stimuli and compare them for relative depth. However, in most cases, the stimuli presented were rather simple: straight colored lines, uniformcolor patches, point light sources, or symmetrical objects with uniformshading. Additionally, the colors used were typically highly saturated. Although such stimuli are useful in isolating and studying depth cues in certain contexts, they leave open the question of whether the human visual system operates similarly for realistic objects.This paper presents the results of an experiment designed to explore the color-depth relationship for realistic, colored objects with varying shading and contours. Warm cool, depth

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authors: Reynold Bailey and Cindy Grimm and Christopher Davoli

Authors: Reynold Bailey and Cindy Grimm and Christopher Davoli
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