A three-volume work by Hermann von Helmholtz (1856–1867) that systematically analyzed the physiology and psychology of human visual perception.
Established the scientific basis for the theory that vision is an active constructive process — the brain fills in what the eye cannot see — which underpins the entire enterprise of cinema as an art of controlled illusion.
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