{"id":5232,"date":"2019-10-12T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T14:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2019-10-12T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T15:28:01","slug":"two-tales-of-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/two-tales-of-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Tales of Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished The Case Against Reality<\/em><\/a> – didn’t love it. But it did have some tidbits about perception that were intriguing, such as the split-brain patient<\/a> who was atheist on one side of the brain; the other, religious.<\/p>\n

Reading it reminded me of stories about perception in two other books, which I want to pass on here. The first is from The Forest People<\/em><\/a>, a lovely older book in which an anthropologist studies the Mbuti pygmy people, living with them for three years. Here he travels to grasslands with a friend from the tribe, who had never been outside the jungle before.<\/p>\n

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How are our own perceptions affected by our upbringing? How does more use of screen and virtual reality affect us? Perhaps it makes graphics easier, in some sense? I recall when physically based shading models started to replace Blinn-Phong, people complained that things didn’t look right with the new models, even though they were more realistic.<\/p>\n

Next is a little experiment described in Incognito<\/em><\/a>, which is the best bathroom book ever – there’s something new every few pages.<\/p>\n

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This makes me wonder a bit about lag & latency and how they’re best measured, or can be mitigated.<\/p>\n

Anyway, both books are wonderful, and I had to resist adding the stories about the sacred drainpipe and about chicken sexing.<\/p>\n

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I just finished The Case Against Reality – didn’t love it. But it did have some tidbits about perception that were intriguing, such as the split-brain patient who was atheist on one side of the brain; the other, religious. Reading it reminded me of stories about perception in two other books, which I want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}