Paradoxical Perception of Surfaces in the Shepard Tabletop Illusion

The Shepard tabletop illusion, consisting of different perspective embeddings of two identical parallelograms as tabletops, affords a profound difference in their perceived surface shapes. My analysis reveals three further paradoxical aspects of this illusion, in addition to its susceptibility to th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christopher W Tyler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-02-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/i0422