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Naturalness and aesthetics of colors – Preference for color compositions perceived as natural
| Resumo: | What makes a colored image, e.g. an abstract painting or a landscape, look pleasing? We hypothesized that a preference for complex color compositions, such as paintings and images of natural scenes, might be related to how natural the colors are perceived. We tested this possibility with two experiments in which the degree of naturalness of images was manipulated by rotating their color gamut rigidly in the color space CIELAB. This changed just the hue composition, but preserved saturation and lightness. In the first experiment we obtained individual scaling curves for perceived naturalness and for preference as a function of the angle of gamut rotation for a small set of images. The naturalness and preference scaling curves were found to be largely similar and their maxima were close to the original image. In the second experiment, we tested whether this effect generalized to a larger set of images. We used a simultaneous 5AFC procedure where in each trial participants had to select the most natural or the most preferred image from five different rotations of the color gamut. The results confirmed the first experiment and showed that, in general, the images perceived as the more natural tend to be the ones that are preferred. Together these results show that perceived naturalness and preference are indeed perceptually closely related and may be driven by related mechanisms. |
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| Autores principais: | Nascimento, S. M. C. |
| Outros Autores: | Marit Albers, Anke; Gegenfurtner, Karl R. |
| Assunto: | Aesthetics Color preference Color vision Ecological physics Natural colors Paintings |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
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| author | Nascimento, S. M. C. |
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| datacite.subjects.subject.fl_str_mv | Aesthetics Color preference Color vision Ecological physics Natural colors Paintings |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Nascimento, S. M. C. Marit Albers, Anke Gegenfurtner, Karl R. |
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| description | What makes a colored image, e.g. an abstract painting or a landscape, look pleasing? We hypothesized that a preference for complex color compositions, such as paintings and images of natural scenes, might be related to how natural the colors are perceived. We tested this possibility with two experiments in which the degree of naturalness of images was manipulated by rotating their color gamut rigidly in the color space CIELAB. This changed just the hue composition, but preserved saturation and lightness. In the first experiment we obtained individual scaling curves for perceived naturalness and for preference as a function of the angle of gamut rotation for a small set of images. The naturalness and preference scaling curves were found to be largely similar and their maxima were close to the original image. In the second experiment, we tested whether this effect generalized to a larger set of images. We used a simultaneous 5AFC procedure where in each trial participants had to select the most natural or the most preferred image from five different rotations of the color gamut. The results confirmed the first experiment and showed that, in general, the images perceived as the more natural tend to be the ones that are preferred. Together these results show that perceived naturalness and preference are indeed perceptually closely related and may be driven by related mechanisms. |
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| spelling | engElsevierporWhat makes a colored image, e.g. an abstract painting or a landscape, look pleasing? We hypothesized that a preference for complex color compositions, such as paintings and images of natural scenes, might be related to how natural the colors are perceived. We tested this possibility with two experiments in which the degree of naturalness of images was manipulated by rotating their color gamut rigidly in the color space CIELAB. This changed just the hue composition, but preserved saturation and lightness. In the first experiment we obtained individual scaling curves for perceived naturalness and for preference as a function of the angle of gamut rotation for a small set of images. The naturalness and preference scaling curves were found to be largely similar and their maxima were close to the original image. In the second experiment, we tested whether this effect generalized to a larger set of images. We used a simultaneous 5AFC procedure where in each trial participants had to select the most natural or the most preferred image from five different rotations of the color gamut. The results confirmed the first experiment and showed that, in general, the images perceived as the more natural tend to be the ones that are preferred. Together these results show that perceived naturalness and preference are indeed perceptually closely related and may be driven by related mechanisms.application/pdfporNaturalness and aesthetics of colors – Preference for color compositions perceived as naturalNascimento, S. M. C.Marit Albers, AnkeGegenfurtner, Karl R.HostingInstitutionOrganizationalUniversidade do Minhoe-mailmailto:repositorium@usdb.uminho.ptrepositorium@usdb.uminho.ptISSNIsPartOf0042-6989DOIIsPartOf10.1016/j.visres.2021.03.0102024-04-05T11:38:54Z20212024-04-01T18:06:48Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZHandlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/90707http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2open accessAestheticsColor preferenceColor visionEcological physicsNatural colorsPaintings15851585 bytesliteraturehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2application/pdffulltexthttps://prod-dspace.uminho.pt/bitstreams/431b8828-0929-4273-a97c-5cc33bd0342f/download |
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| title | Naturalness and aesthetics of colors – Preference for color compositions perceived as natural |
| title_full | Naturalness and aesthetics of colors – Preference for color compositions perceived as natural |
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| topic | Aesthetics Color preference Color vision Ecological physics Natural colors Paintings |
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