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    The visual effect generally presents the viewer with two shape interpretations, each of which is consistent with … See more

    Rubin vase - Wikipedia

    • Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the figure–ground vase) is a famous example of ambiguous or bi-stable (i.e., reversing) two-dimensional forms developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin. The depicted version of Rubin's vase can be seen as the black profiles of two people looking towards each other or as a white vase, b… See more

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    Further reading

    • A Psychology of Picture Perception, John M. Kennedy. 1974, Jossey-Bass Publishers, ISBN 0-87589-204-3
    • The art and science of visual illusions, Nicholas Wade. 1982 Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. ISBN 0-7100-0868-6… See more

    External links

    • Rubin's People Inside the Wall People trapped inside a Wall
    • Illusionworks.com article Archived 2013-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
    • Rubin has invented nothing The Rubin's vase before Rubin (fr)… See more

     
  1. Your brain has to make a decision about which part of the picture is the object and which part is the background. Maybe you see the faces. That means your brain is interpreting the rest of the picture not as a vase but as the background. Maybe you see the vase instead.
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    Your brain has to make a decision about which part of the picture is the object and which part is the background. Maybe you see the faces. That means your brain is interpreting the rest of the picture not as a vase but as the …

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    Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the Figure-ground vase) is a famous set of cognitive optical illusions developed around 1915, by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin.

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