Week 6 Visual Perception 1 / Top-Down Visual Processing

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Here we have a page from a Huntress comic. Upon first glance of the page, our eyes see the divide of the comic panels in two columns which we read from left to right, the way the english language works. The eye is then drawn vertically to the dynamic shot of Huntress jumping from a building. The eye scans down the pose as it follows the line of action of the character. On the right-hand column the vertical nature of the design draws the eye down, parallel to the character's body on the left and read downwards, mimicking the "falling action"