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There is something deeply fundamental about the way the visual system parses images with dark and light components. This example is particularly compelling. I feel certain extant models of visual perception are missing some fundamental idea involving opposite polarity edges and how they are combined into representations. Here’s another example from my own research some years back. The rings seem against high contrast backgrounds seem lustrous and appear to shimmer.
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