Eight photographic transparencies were both digitized and degraded in an effort to approximate computer generated imagery. The resulting representations of lightly wooded and open terrain were the stimuli for distance judgments which were made by 16 subjects. Distance judgments were more influenced by the order in which the stimuli, digitized or degraded, were presented than by the visual clutter, or texture, in the representation itself.
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