Picture Formation

Picture Formation Definition

The documents within this repository attempt to outline three previously undefined terms as used within the realm of pictorial depiction from camera sensor and computer generated model energy. To jump to the relevant sections, each of the three definitions are linked here:

1. Picture (Pictorial) Formation
2. Pictorial Constancy
3. Picture as it relates to pictorial depiction and encoding.

In order to adequately describe what the meaning of the above terms are, some surrounding terms and concepts are a prerequisite. The Glossary gathers up some of these adjacent terms and concepts to flesh out a formal definition.

A page dedicated to the differences between "Picture Formation" and "Colour Management" can be found here.

Picture Formation

The creation and integration of distal stimuli within a stimuli specification encoding, to be presented as a uniquely transformed distal stimuli object embedded in a broader spatiotemporal articulation. Where:

1. The spatiotemporal articulation of the stimuli comprises the authorial intended lower order cognition of fission, fusion, and subsequent decomposition of form perception, form quality, and relationships between forms.
2. The spatiotemporal articulation of the stimuli is created and arranged with the idealized goal of a maximal probability that the intended audience-reader shall decode the spatiotemporal articulation of the stimuli as closely as possible with respect to the authorial intended cognition. An appropriately formed spatiotemporal articulation of the stimuli maximizes the probability of correctly inferred and authorially intended cognitive:
   1. Forms (EG: "Shape" as cognitively constructed in our layered or 3D-like cognitive framework.) This includes segmented sub-form local frameworks based within-form qualia such as "glossy", "voluminous", "form colour", etc.
   2. Ordering (EG: Opaque, transparent, translucent, etc. as well as relationships within our layered or 3D-like cognitive framework.)
   3. Relationships (EG: Closure, visual closure, and more broad ideas around what "atomic" portions or regions of forms belong to which. See Prägnanz.)
3. The cognitive effects of the encoded distal stimuli, and frequently unwritten yet implicit spatial frequency, are demarcated from the transformed distal stimuli of the picture presentation. This demarcation facilitates additional stimuli manipulations that strive toward a goal of an authorially driven pictorial constancy within varying presentations. The ultimate goal of which, is to identify prioritized invariants along a psychological cognitive system. "The picture is the same between these two different presentations."

Ingredients that may be involved in a Picture Formation's recipe may include, but are not limited to:

• Colourimetric encodings from electrical camera sensors or computer model engines.
• Generalized non-colourimetric biologically "visible" electromagnetic encodings such as spectral measurements.
• Alternative energy encodings that may be uniquely invisible in the retinal stimuli sense. This may include topographical scalar measurements, invisible forms of electromagnetic radiation, kinetic energy scalar measurements, or some other wholly different data.
• Etc.

Summary

Pictorial formation is the encapsulation of the totality of the operations that create the picture's stimuli. The picture's stimuli are parsed and interpreted by the audience's cognitive heuristics to construct the pictorial space.