Horopter¶
The horopter can be measured empirically in which it is defined using some criterion.
Core Idea¶
Horopter is treated here as the recurring binocular vision identity summarized by this source-grounded definition: The horopter can be measured empirically in which it is defined using some criterion. In vision science, the horopter was originally defined in geometric terms as the locus of points in space that make the same angle at each eye with the fixation point, although more recently in studies of binocular vision it is taken to be the locus of points in space that have the same disparity as fixation.
Scope of Application¶
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History of the term. Thus Alhazen noticed the importance of some points in the visual field but did not work out the exact shape of the horopter and used singleness of vision as a criterion.
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Empirical binocular horopter. These early empirical investigations used the criterion of singleness of vision, or absence of diplopia to determine the horopter.
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Empirical binocular horopter. Other criteria used over the years include the apparent fronto-parallel plane horopter, the equi-distance horopter, the drop-test horopter or the plumb-line horopter.
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Empirical binocular horopter. Although these various horopters are measured using different techniques and have different theoretical motivations, the shape of the horopter remains identical regardless of the criterion used for its determination.
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Documented setting. As other quantities that describe the functional principles of the visual system, it is possible to provide a theoretical description of the phenomenon.
Clarity¶
A clear use of Horopter names the carrier, the operative relation, and the conditions under which the source treats the identity as present. The minimal definition is The horopter can be measured empirically in which it is defined using some criterion. The strongest recognition evidence in the frozen account is: In 1818, Gerhard Vieth argued from Euclidean geometry that the horopter must be a circle passing through the fixation-point and.
Manages Complexity¶
Horopter compresses multiple binocular vision details into a stable diagnostic relation. The source shows both the central mechanism—he built on the binocular vision work of Ptolemy and discovered that objects lying on a horizontal line passing through the fixation point resulted in single images, while objects a reasonable distance from this line resulted in double images.—and the practical consequence—when the eyes are in tertiary position away from.
Abstract Reasoning¶
- Type the carrier. Identify the binocular vision entities to which the claim applies.
- State the relation. Use the source-grounded identity: The horopter can be measured empirically in which it is defined using some criterion.
- Check operation and conditions. The term horopter was introduced by Franciscus Aguilonius in the second of his six books in optics in 1613.
- Demand recognition evidence.
Knowledge Transfer¶
Within the home domain. Knowledge about Horopter transfers literally when a new case preserves the same carrier type, relation, and recognition test. Thus Alhazen noticed the importance of some points in the visual field but did not work out the exact shape of the horopter and used singleness of vision as a criterion. These early empirical investigations used the criterion of singleness of vision, or absence of diplopia to determine the horopter. Beyond the home domain. No canonical parent is asserted for Horopter.
Neighborhood in Abstraction Space¶
Horopter sits in a sparse region of the domain-specific corpus (82nd percentile for distinctiveness): few abstractions share its structure, so a faithful description tends to retrieve it precisely.
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