In images of textured three-dimensional surfaces, pattern changes can be characterized as changes in orientation and spatial frequency, features for which neurons in primary visual cortex are classically selective. Previously, we have demonstrated that correct 3-D shape perception is contingent on the visibility of orientation flows that run parallel to the surface curvature. We sought to deter...

Subjects were examined for practice effects in a stereoscopic slant-estimation task involving surfaces that comprised a large portion of the visual field. In most subjects slant estimation was significantly affected by practice, but only when an isolated surface (an absolute disparity gradient) was present in the visual field. When a second, unslanted, surface was visible (providing a second di...

When a surface covered with a regular texture is viewed in perspective, the projected texture provides a number of cues to 3D surface orientation. For oriented textures, one cue is perspective convergence: symmetry lines that are parallel along the surface project to lines that vary systematically in orientation. We investigated the contribution of perspective convergence to perception of 3D sl...

It is known that the perceived slants of large distal surfaces, such as hills, are exaggerated and that the exaggeration increases with distance. In a series of two experiments, we parametrically investigated the effect of viewing distance and slant on perceived slant using a high-fidelity virtual environment. An explicit numerical estimation method and an implicit aspect-ratio approach were se...

In this paper, we study pseudo-slant submanifolds of nearly Kaehler manifolds. A classification theorem on a totally umbilical pseudo-slant submanifold of a nearly Kaehler manifold is proved. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C40, 53B25, 53C15.

One of the properties of a visual surface along with hardness, distance, and color-with-illumination, is that of slant. This term must be understood to include not-slanted as well as slanted; in other words the variable consists of opposite qualities having zero slant as a norm. There is evidence that optical slant, so-called, is determined by stimulation. When vision is monocular and the head ...

the cracked brazilian disc (cbd) specimen is widely used in order to determine mode-i/ii and mixed-mode fracture toughness of a rock medium. in this study, the stress intensity factor (sif) on the crack-tip in this specimen is calculated for various geometrical crack conditions using the extended-finite element method (x-fem). this method is based upon the finite element method (fem). in this m...

Perceived slant was measured for horizontal lines aligned on one side and of varying lengths whose length disparity was either a constant linear amount for all lines (consistent with uniocular occlusion) or proportional to line length (consistent with global slant). Although the disparity of any line was ambiguous with respect to these two possibilities, slant of individual lines did not occur ...