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This contribution presents a study in which subjects are shown perspective views of simple shapes. The subject’s task was to decide whether the shape’s outlines were parallel to each other or not. It was observed that the subjects were strongly misled by perspective depth cues. Real parallels in orthographic projections were rarely detected. In contrast a minor convergent alignment of the outlines like in a linear perspective projection were perceived as parallel.
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Walther, S., Franke, I., Pannasch, S., Groh, R. (2014). Perception of Parallelism in Perspective Images. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2014 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts. HCI 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 434. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07857-1_66
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