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Atmospheric perspective

Atmospheric perspective

Here’s another kind of per­spec­tive. When a series of objects goes from high chroma, low value, and warm hue to low chroma, high value, and cool hue, the illu­sion is cre­ated that they are reced­ing into the dis­tance as more and more air is between the viewer and the objects as they get fur­ther away. This effect can be used as an artis­tic con­ven­tion even when the per­ceived dif­fer­ence in dis­tance is too small to pro­duce the appar­ent atmos­pheric effect, as in objects at dif­fer­ent dis­tances within a room.

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