Visionaries by Nicholas Wade

A selection from a set of illustrations by Nicholas Wade of famous men in the the history of perception research. The faces are often intentionally difficult to discern but may become clearer if the images are viewed from a greater distance. Thirty prints were exhibited at the 19th European Conference on Visual Perception.

Donders' see: Frans Cornelis Donders

Psychometric function: Gustav Theodor Fechner

Texture gradients: James Jerome Gibson

Hering grid: Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering

Mach bands: Ernst Mach

2½-D sketch: David Courtenay Marr