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Perspective
Perspective
has at least three meanings.
Perspective (visual)
refers to some of the information in the visual scene that allows an observer to perceive the distances and sizes of objects. Specific types of perspective in
visual perception
are
linear perspective
,
texture gradients
, and
aerial perspective
.
Perspective (graphical)
refers to the
graphic
representation
of objects on a planar surface to give an illusion of the objects in three-dimensional space.
Perspective (cognitive)
refers to a theory of
cognition
in which the choice of a
context
or a
reference
(or the result of this choice) influences how we sense, categorize, measure, or codify experience, typically for comparing with another. One may further recognize a number of subtly distinctive meanings, close to those of
Point of view
,
Weltanschauung
, and
paradigm
.
The key idea unifiying these types of perspective is that human experience is tied closely to the one's
point of view
.
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