{"id":217618,"date":"2025-07-11T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/inverse-graphics-how-your-brain-turns-2d-into-3d"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:03:05","slug":"inverse-graphics-how-your-brain-turns-2d-into-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/inverse-graphics-how-your-brain-turns-2d-into-3d","title":{"rendered":"Inverse Graphics: How Your Brain Turns 2D Into 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inverse-graphics-how-your-brain-turns-2d-into-3d2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gives us evidence that the goal of vision is to establish a 3D understanding of an object,\u201d said study senior author Ilker Yildirim, an assistant professor of psychology in Yale\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you open your eyes, you see 3D scenes \u2014 the brain\u2019s visual system is able to construct a 3D understanding from a stripped-down 2D view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have dubbed this process \u201cinverse graphics,\u201d describing how the brain\u2019s visual processing system works like a computer graphics process, but in reverse, from a 2D image through a less view-dependent \u201c2.5D\u201d intermediate representation, and up to a much more view-tolerant 3D object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis gives us evidence that the goal of vision is to establish a 3D understanding of an object,\u201d said study senior author Ilker Yildirim, an assistant professor of psychology in Yale\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. \u201cWhen you open your eyes, you see 3D scenes \u2014 the brain\u2019s visual system is able to construct a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}