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Appearance rendering by painters, engravers and generative AIs

Material perception and depiction across different styles and media

In contemporary society, we are surrounded by not only physical materials, but also images of them. We are capable of judging materials and their properties with only visual information. For instance, if an object looks solid and glossy or soft and fluffy. This ability is called ...
We investigated the influence of the medium on the perception of depicted objects and materials. Oil paintings and their reproductions in engravings were chosen because they are vastly distinctive media while having completely identical content. A total of 15 pairs were collected ...

Zooming in on style

Exploring style perception using details of paintings

Most studies on the perception of style have used whole scenes/entire paintings; in our study, we isolated a single motif (an apple) to reduce or even eliminate the influence of composition, iconography, and other contextual information. In this article, we empirically address tw ...

A juicy orange makes for a tastier juice

The neglected role of visual material perception in packaging design

Food appearance sets intentions and expectations. When designing packaged food much attention is devoted to packaging elements like color and shape, but less to the characteristics of the images used. To our awareness, no study has yet investigated how the appearance of the food ...