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Michotte argued that humans almost immediately perceive causality in simple animations as a consequence of spatial and temporal localities. To explore the usefulness of these ideas in animation, Ware et al. introduced a semiotic method called a visual causal vector. This work studies their wave metaphor, shows a method for calibrating timings to produce a causal impression, and explores the effect of animations timed in this way.
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Neufeld, E., Solheim, J., Kristtorn, S. (2006). Experiments in the Perception of Causality. In: Butz, A., Fisher, B., Krüger, A., Olivier, P. (eds) Smart Graphics. SG 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11795018_4
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