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  2. Ambiguous image - Wikipedia

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    Ambiguous images are important to the field of psychology because they are often research tools used in experiments. [3] There is varying evidence on whether ambiguous images can be represented mentally, [4] but a majority of research has theorized that mental images cannot be ambiguous. [5]

  3. Rubin vase - Wikipedia

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    Another example of a bistable figure Rubin included in his Danish-language, two-volume book was the Maltese cross. A 3D model of a Rubin vase Rubin presented in his doctoral thesis (1915) a detailed description of the visual figure-ground relationship, an outgrowth of the visual perception and memory work in the laboratory of his mentor, Georg ...

  4. Figure–ground (perception) - Wikipedia

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    The Gestalt theory was founded in the 20th century in Austria and Germany as a reaction against the associationist and structural schools' atomistic orientation. [2] In 1912, the Gestalt school was formed by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka. The word "gestalt" is a German word translated to English as "pattern" or "configuration."

  5. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    The Necker cube is a well-known example; other instances are the Rubin vase and the "squircle", based on Kokichi Sugihara's ambiguous cylinder illusion. [ 18 ] Distorting or geometrical-optical illusions are characterized by distortions of size, length, position or curvature.

  6. Rabbit–duck illusion - Wikipedia

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    The rabbit–duck illusion is an ambiguous image in which a rabbit or a duck can be seen. [1] The earliest known version is an unattributed drawing from the 23 October 1892 issue of Fliegende Blätter, a German humour magazine. It was captioned, in older German spelling, "Welche Thiere gleichen einander am meisten?

  7. Multistable perception - Wikipedia

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    Examples of visually ambiguous patterns. From top to bottom: Necker cube, Schroeder stairs and a figure that can be interpreted as black or white arrows. Multistable perception (or bistable perception) is a perceptual phenomenon in which an observer experiences an unpredictable sequence of spontaneous subjective changes.

  8. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    Ambiguous image: These are images that can form two separate pictures. For example, the image shown forms a rabbit and a duck. Ambigram: A calligraphic design that has multiple or symmetric interpretations. Ames room illusion An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create a visual illusion. Ames trapezoid window illusion

  9. Necker cube - Wikipedia

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    The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. [1] It is a simple wire-frame, two dimensional drawing of a cube with no visual cues as to its orientation, so it can be interpreted to have either the lower-left or the upper-right square as its front side.