Thanks to Gene Levine for sending over one of his latest 3D stereograms.  It incorporates the face/vase ambiguous optical illusion in addition to the hidden image located in the pattern below it.  Take a deep look inside the gray swirling pattern and see if you can get the hidden image to pop out at you. […]

We featured a post last year about ambiguous metal sculptures that can be created using photographs of your own face.  The sculptures can either look like two faces looking at each other, or a vase (or candlestick if you have a look at the post referenced above).  The design is based on psychologist Edgar Rubin’s […]

In the early 20th century, psychologist Edgar Rubin developed the figure-ground vase (also known as Rubin’s vase).  This ambiguous figure can be interpreted as either a vase or two faces looking at each other.   Metal Portraits, a company based in Suwanee, Georgia, has taken the figure-ground vase concept to an entirely new level by creating […]