Ambiguous Figure Ground
Twelve ambiguous figure ground images generated using our system with or without user intervention.
Ambiguous figure ground. Ambiguous above right elements can appear to be both figure and ground simultaneously. Figure ground relationships exist when the positive and negative elements attract our attention somewhat equally and they alternate both retracting and receding. One such classic example is the face vase figure first introduced into the literature by psychologist edgar rubin in 1915. This graphic is a classic example of a stimulus where there is no figure ground relationship either the white or the black portion could be the figure or the ground.
Ambiguous images or reversible figures are optical illusion images which exploit graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms. Both figure and ground attract the viewer s attention equally. This creates tension whereby either can overtake the other leading to a dynamic design. Ambiguous figure ground figure ground challenge the viewer to find a focal point.
Figure ground perception refers to the tendency of the visual system to simplify a scene into the main object that we are looking at the figure and everything else that forms the background or ground. Our system is efficient and takes less than a second to generate these visually appealing results either automatically or with simple user assistance to specify the. Ambiguous images or reversible figures are visual forms which exploit graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms. This is true of many classic visual illusions.
Multistable perception is the occurrence of an image being able to provide multiple. These are famous for inducing the phenomenon of multistable perception multistable perception is the occurrence of an image being able to provide multiple although stable perceptions. The concept of figure ground perception is often illustrated with the classic faces or vases illusion also known as the rubin vase.