ability helps us recognize faces, objects, animals, and familiar places.
But it also means that we sometimes overlook alternative interpretations of an image.
For example, a group of branches may initially look like nothing more than part of a tree.
After closer examination, those same lines might suggest a different recognizable shape.
The image itself hasn’t changed.
What changes is the way the viewer organizes its details.
This is one reason visual illusions can be entertaining.
They encourage usto look beyond our first interpretation.
- The Importance of Negative Space
