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Perception, Light, and Color

James Elkins explains the development and historical significance of linear perspective, a mathematical system for projecting an illusion of three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional surface.
 

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Steven Weintraub examines how light temperature affects a viewer’s experience of a work of art in a museum. Using cognitive science, Weintraub conducts an experiment to test whether aesthetic taste is universal or individual.
 

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In this lecture, Chris Chiaverina provides classroom projects combining basic principles of art and physics.
 

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