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SUBMITTER: Barnett JB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5524484 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barnett James B JB Cuthill Innes C IC Scott-Samuel Nicholas E NE
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20170701 1858
The effect of viewing distance on the perception of visual texture is well known: spatial frequencies higher than the resolution limit of an observer's visual system will be summed and perceived as a single combined colour. In animal defensive colour patterns, distance-dependent pattern blending may allow aposematic patterns, salient at close range, to match the background to distant observers. Indeed, recent research has indicated that reducing the distance from which a salient signal can be de ...[more]