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The cube appears to flip so
that the red dot is sometimes inside, and sometimes outside the cube.
When you look at this 2D
drawing, your brain automatically visualises it as a 3-D cube. But this drawing
does not give enough information for your visual system to know exactly which
face of the cube is at the front.
This ambiguous cube shows us
that anything we see is just a ‘best guess’ by our visual system. Your
visual system has a hypothesis that the cube is at one orientation, then for
some reason suddenly another hypothesis is favoured and the cube flips. We never
see both orientations together because our visual system must decide which
hypothesis is favoured.
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