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Figure Ground
Albert Paley Sentinel
David Page
Figure–Ground Competition
Irving Pobboravsky
| Selection | ||||
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| Figure and Ground Compete | ||||
| Camouflage | ||||
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| Exercises |
Selection: The first step in seeing is selection—separating a figure (the subject) from the background (ground). Did you first see the white pedestals as figures? If you did, then the dark area served as the ground. But you could also have seen the dark area, which has a similar shape, as the figure. When you do, then the white pedestals become the ground. Figure and ground ...
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