Primary Cues for Depth Perception

• Demonstration of retinal disparity
• Optic pathways of the brain
• Stereoscope
• Steroescope in use
• Accommodation and convergence

Secondary Cues for Depth Perception

• Linear perspective
• Aerial haze
• Familiar size
• Interposition
• Patterns of light and shade
• Texture gradients
• Relative Motion
• Need for frames of reference

Depth Perception in Paintings

• Egyptian painting (lack of perspective)
• Chinese painting (symbolic perspective)
• Italian Renaissance (early perspective)
• American painting (perspective)
• OP art (extreme use of cues for perspective)