viewerdependent
Viewerdependent is an adjective used primarily in perception, vision science, and related disciplines to describe properties, effects, or judgments whose appearance or interpretation changes with the observer. A stimulus is viewerdependent when different viewers (or the same viewer in different conditions) report different percepts for the same physical input. The effect arises from the interaction between sensory input and observer-specific factors such as viewing angle, distance, illumination, prior experience, and individual variations in vision.
Common examples include ambiguous figures, where the percept flips between interpretations depending on the viewer; size
In applied fields such as computer graphics and visualization, viewerdependent techniques render or annotate content differently
Viewerdependence is contrasted with viewer-independence, where perceptual judgments or physical measurements are invariant across observers and