Are the perceived configurations of ambiguous objects constrained by each other?

By Richard McWalter (TA)

This illusion is based on the Necker cube, and includes both a small and large wire-frame drawing of a cube. Can you perceive the front side as the upper square for one and the lower square for the other... at the same time?


Can you use these two filled-in images on the right, to help you bias your perception of the image on the left?



Comments


Michael Anoke

It's really difficult for me to see the mismatched variations. If I use the smaller cube of one of the filled in images to influence the larger cube of the other, then I can see the mismatched sides briefly. I definitely feel a strain trying to do it though.

Maddie

I can see it 3/4 ways. The only one I can't see is the bigger cube as an upper square and the smaller cube as a lower square. But I can see it the other mismatched way around!