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Image of people hands drawing on paper.Image of people hands drawing on paper.

Spatial FrequenciesPast exhibition

Connections between visual art, vision neuroscience and computational methods of representing and understanding human vision are on view in this work created through the MIT Museum Studio.

A novel method is used for drawing with “neural code.” Patterns of light and dark across scales activate the brain’s low-level visual processing. As the eye explores the drawing, viewers experience creative functions of their own perception. Between ambiguity and order, vivid 3D impressions emerge—textures, geometric forms and spatial depth.