figure-ground illusion

An optical illusion in which you see something different on an image depending on what parts of the image you perceive as being the foreground or the background.

Examples

a vase or two faces

two girls on a table or a skull

See also

• L'amour De Pierrot

External links

• Wikipedia: Figure–ground (perception)

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