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Aaron Hertzmann
Personal blog · aaronhertzmann.comdesignphilosophy
Aaron Hertzmann's personal blog at aaronhertzmann.com covers design and philosophy. Since 2022, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “How does perspective work in pictures?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for essays on visual perception, perspective, line drawing, and photography as art, bridging computer graphics and human vision. Commenters call the articles superb and fascinating.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Aaron Hertzmann’s essays on art, technology, perception, and how they intersect.
Most-linked posts?
- How does perspective work in pictures?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-03-02
- Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-31
- Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-17
- Distortion and Multiperspective in Art and Photography2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-10
What Hacker News says?
If liked this, you might also like: https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/06/10/perspective-distortion... https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/09/09/dvc-multiperspective.h...
Comment linking /2024/09/09/dvc-multiperspective.html
on “Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)”Submitted How does perspective work in pictures? as a story · 412 points
HN discussionHard disagree. Cameras and their sensors are just different from the human eye. This doesn't make them capture reality "how it is", they just have different capabilities and they make different trade-offs. They are certainly different, but not necessarily "more real". Cameras don't capture "reality". An insightful link on this topic, shared previously here on HN, which is very illuminating: "Photography is not objec…
Comment linking /2022/03/17/photography-is-not-objective.html
on “Moon Illusion”Submitted Why dark and light is complicated in photographs as a story · 159 points
HN discussionI would recommend subscribing to the RSS feed: all of the articles are frankly superb. https://aaronhertzmann.com/feed.xml
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on “Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices”Submitted Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices as a story · 117 points
HN discussionThe blog post linked in required reading ( https://aaronhertzmann.com/2022/02/28/how-does-perspective-w... ) was fascinating. It also had the line > Even more confusing, there’s some evidence that people with very different cultural backgrounds may vary in perspective perception in some cases. Which sounds fascinating but they didn't expand.
Comment linking /2022/02/28/how-does-perspective-work.html
on “Beyond Linear Perspective: Art, Human Vision, and Computer Graphics”Submitted Art is Fundamentally Social (2021) as a story · 48 points
HN discussionFigure 4 in the article [1] is absolutely fascinating and seems to prove conclusively that the edge detection hypothesis is completely misguided: when one retains only the edges (B) of the original image (A), all meaning is lost and the resulting image is unrecognizable. What A has that B lacks is shapes . There is obviously a rotund shape of the face that is reconstructed by the brain, that one can almost see, alth…
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on “Why Edge Detection Doesn’t Explain Line Drawing”Submitted Why Edge Detection Doesn’t Explain Line Drawing as a story · 34 points
HN discussionRenders looking too small reminds me of this article: https://aaronhertzmann.com/2022/02/28/how-does-perspective-w... Maybe you're looking for something like "Natural Perspective"?
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on “Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated by Modeling a Film Camera in Blender [video]”Submitted Creative Explorations with DALL-E 2 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amateurs: Making Art at Technological Cutting-Edges as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning from Painting, Part 7: Finding Inspiration, Six Years Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distortion and Multiperspective in Art and Photography as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 2: Getting It Right as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Curse of Performative User Studies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four Important Eras That Define Art as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Photography Became an Art Form as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Visual Art as Computation: A Hypothetical Book Introduction (2021) as a story · 1 points
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