Seeing with the Mind's Eye.

Researchers harness the power of visual perception to improve the look of computer images

The rapid-fire advances that have defined computer graphics over the past quarter century have filled our computer screens with more visual information than we know what to do with. Simulations that once required supercomputer power to calculate are now running on desktop workstations, and high-end animations and special effects for film, broadcast, and Internet applications are being churned out in minutes and hours rather than days, weeks, and months. But while Moore's law has delivered on its promise of ever-faster processors and greater storage and memory capacity, these ...