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Plate 1 Fan Kuan's Travelers among Streams and Mountains, painted around the year 1000 and over 2 metres tall. Courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

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Plate 2 Along the River during the Ch'ing-ming Festival, painted during the Ch'ing dynasty, following a design created by Chang Tse-tuan in the early 12th century (National Palace Museum, Taipei). Bottom: copy of painting (original length: 1,152.8 cm). Middle row: a part of the painting. Top row: further magnification of a part of the painting. Courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

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Plate 3 A segment of the Bayeux Tapestry, which is over 70 m long. It is an embroidery, stitched, not woven, in woollen yarn on linen.

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Plate 4 Top: adjacent images are registered. Below: pixel values are unified to hide lighting variations. From Chen and Klette (1999).

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Plate 5 Interface of an 1998 interactive anaglyph panorama stereo player: the globe is an example of an independent object ...

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