Vision-Space: (UK patent issued)

Atelier Vision has an international patent for a new form of Illusionary space. The application of these techniques in traditional 2D picture media will fundamentally alter these environments by raising the ‘believability threshold’ of the scene depicted. The camera record used in 2D media is not structured in the same way as our projections of vision. The patent sets out a process whereby 2D record, captured by the camera, can be transformed, in line with the structure and composition of vision, to provide a record that is closer to a visual experience of the real world. These developments have been made possible by new insights into monocular vision (view from a single eye) and perceptual structure in general. We can now distinguish between the camera record - which can be thought of as ‘picture record’, and the composition of ‘visual images’ that we experience as vision.

By carefully recording the structure of visual projection, we have identified key factors that assist with the saliency of vision. These factors are core to our perception of 3D settings but can’t be generated from 2D surfaces conforming to traditional picture-space environments.

Until now, the only 2D representations to contain references to these factors have been limited to the intuitive record of highly perceptive artists such as Chardin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Degas, Bonnard, Bacon and recently the works of John Jupe. Their paintings record clear visual cues involved our sense of vision, that don’t appear in camera based records. The company’s patent and related IP formalises these observations into a set of principles that identify a new form of illusionary space. This allows for the application of Vision-Space techniques to be deployed into digitised picture-space media, such as photography, film, and VR simulations.

The effect is dramatic. When compared to the original photographic material, transformed pictures are quite obviously more salient - more believable as an observed 3D experience. The transformed media allows us to make an additional range of judgements from the 2D media, thereby making it more believable. By comparison, the original picture media looks flat and uninteresting. We can see Vision-Space media replacing virtually all picture based media within a few years. Vision-Space techniques will be deployed in advertising, film, animation, computer games and VR simulations. The methodology can be adapted to enhance satellite photography, security footage and significantly enhance medical imaging processes.

Atelier Vision will be offering leading companies master licenses to develop applications in their industry sectors over the coming years.