Gilles Simon’s article, Jan van Eyck’s perspectival system elucidated through computer vision, was presented at SIGGRAPH 2021
In art history, it is commonly accepted that the Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck knew nothing of the laws of perspective. Gilles Simon carried out a probabilistic analysis of five paintings of the artist between 1432 and 1439 and revealed that the painter was in fact far ahead of his time thanks to computer vision methods. He used an advanced perspective machine with two degrees of freedom to represent space as closely as possible to human vision. This surprising discovery solves a major enigma of art history and means Jan Van Eyck is the pioneer of techniques such as augmented reality or synthetic holography.
The article is available via the link : https://hal.univ-lorraine.fr/hal-03287031
The associated video (in french)
