Practice question · Select all that apply
Which of these are true of the figure-and-ground decision?
Hints
- Three are Rubin's cues; one confuses the material with the reading.
- A ground can be thickly painted and still be a ground.
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- A. A smaller region tends to be read as figure against a larger one
- C. When the cues are evenly balanced the reading can flip between the two
- D. An enclosed region tends to be read as figure against the region enclosing it
Why
The fourth mistakes the surface for the organisation. A ground can carry far more paint than the figure it surrounds and remain the ground, because the decision is made on size, enclosure, convexity and meaning, none of which is a fact about how much pigment is present.
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