P3D Reading pictures left to right

[George Themelis <gthemelis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Kunkel demonstrated how a picture is “read” left to write. 
If you have a bright area off center, this should be in the left
side, not the right, because the eye is attracted to it and it
is drawn out of the frame if it is in the right.  He showed
examples of such pictures.  The eye scans the picture from the
left, hits the center of interest and then is attracted by the
bright area in the right and is drawn out of the picture.  By
switching the image front to back, the bright area is now on the
left.  The eye enters from the left, moves from the bright area
to the center of interest and then it stops because now the
right side is dark.  There is no way out!

This might explain why sometimes we like a picture more as seen
backwards instead of seeing it from the front, as recoded.  I
have been wondering about this... Actually, there are two
factors working here, IMO.  First, we have the tendency to
prefer an image as we saw it for the first time.  Sometimes, I
view a slide the wrong way in the SSA folios.  Then, when I
reverse it to look at it properly, most of the times I do not
like the correct orientation.  I will have to force myself to
forget the “first impression” and then be able to tell which
orientation I prefer.

Does anyone have a similar experience or ideas in the F/B
viewing issue?

George Themelis


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