Rubin's vase¶
Rubin, E. (1915). Rubin's vase.
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Mechanisms¶
- Counterform Activation
- The designer tunes the gap's width and the wings' curvature so the bird is recoverable at a glance yet not so forced that it flattens the wings, and adjusts figure-ground contrast so the eye can hold either reading.
This sourceIt is the perceptual principle counterform activation exploits — the eye assigns figure and ground to the same boundary, and a designer can decide which reading it finds.
- The designer tunes the gap's width and the wings' curvature so the bird is recoverable at a glance yet not so forced that it flattens the wings, and adjusts figure-ground contrast so the eye can hold either reading.
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