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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. It is a simple wire-frame...
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  • to definitively and uniquely interpret. Familiar examples include the Necker cube, Schroeder staircase, structure from motion, monocular rivalry, and binocular...
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  • cloth worn round the neck Necker cube, optical illusion Necker Island (Hawaii) Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital...
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    Austrian postage stamp. The impossible cube draws upon the ambiguity present in a Necker cube illustration, in which a cube is drawn with its edges as line segments...
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    the Necker cube. He was born in the Republic of Geneva, the son of botanist Professor Jacques Necker, nephew and namesake of statesman Jacques Necker, and...
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    cube standing on a vertex. Optical illusions such as the impossible cube and Necker cube have been explored by artists such as M. C. Escher. Salvador Dalí's...
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  • more alternative interpretations. This is seen, for example, in the Necker cube and Rubin's Figure/Vase illusion. Other examples include the three-legged...
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    three-dimensional objects. This is why a drawing of a Necker cube would most likely be seen as a cube, rather than "two squares connected with diagonal lines...
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  • it to the Necker cube illusion. David Alais from the University of Sydney's school of psychology also compared the clip to the Necker cube or the face/vase...
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    analogous to visual ambiguity and impossible objects, such as the Necker cube and impossible cube, or many of the drawings of M. C. Escher. Some languages have...
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    remains fixed while the percept fluctuates. The best known example is the Necker cube whose 12 lines can be perceived in one of two different ways in depth...
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    optical illusions. The image on the right of a Necker cube is an example of a bistable percept, that is, the cube can be interpreted as being oriented in two...
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    as multistable, in that case bistable, perception. One example is the Necker cube. Depending on the perception of the observer, the apparent direction...
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    elicit a perceptual "switch" between the alternative interpretations. The Necker cube is a well-known example; other instances are the Rubin vase and the "squircle"...
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  • 1957. It depicts two interlocking bands wrapped around the frame of a Necker cube. The bands have what Escher called small "nodules" or "buttonlike protuberances"...
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    examples of this phenomenon are the Necker cube, and the rhombille tiling (viewed as an isometric drawing of cubes). To go further than just perceiving...
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    of consciousness. For example, subjects who stare continuously at a Necker cube usually report that they experience it "flipping" between two 3D configurations...
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    pareidolias; or again, by the representation of impossible objects, such as Necker cube or Penrose triangle. For all these types of images, certain ambigrams...
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  • distinguished from some related phenomena. Some simple targets such as the Necker cube are capable of more than one interpretation, which are usually seen in...
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    Multistable perception Necker cube The Necker cube is an optical illusion first published in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. Numerosity adaptation...
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  • foot of the building holding an impossible cube. He appears to be constructing it from a diagram of a Necker cube at his feet, with the intersecting lines...
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    trident Irradiation Jastrow Lilac chaser Mach bands McCollough Müller-Lyer Necker cube Oppel-Kundt Orbison Penrose stairs Penrose triangle Peripheral drift...
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    tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same...
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    Penrose. Although referred to as "impossible objects", such objects as the Necker cube and the Penrose triangle can be sculpted in 3-D by using anamorphic illusion...
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    situation involving the interpretation of an ambiguous object (i.e. a Necker cube) that lacks the language based labels that the priming information may...
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    tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same...
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  • like the Necker cube are the result of the brain's indecision between two equally plausible hypotheses about the cube's orientation. The cube appears to...
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    rivalry, are examples of multistable perception phenomena, including the Necker cube and Rubin vase figure. Motion-induced interocular suppression Multistable...
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  • experiencing can affect classical perceptual illusions, such as the Necker cube. Mindfulness meditation represents another kind of phenomenological practice...
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    parallax) ... Like most Hollow Face illusions, Thinky is related to the Necker Cube illusion ... Emrich HM (1989). "A three-component-system hypothesis of...
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