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The ‘Rubber Rhomboid’ effect is an illusion where a rigid skeleton parallelepiped is rotated and appears to undergo rubbery deformation [1]. This paper reports the first attempt to map the effect systematically. Three subjects assessed the level of deformation of computer generated rotating parallelepipeds. The main finding was that objects containing equal angles at a vertex were more stable across all orientations, especially when the equal angles were 90°. The findings are discussed in the context of computational accounts of human vision.
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Clements, D., Cowie, R. (1991). Measuring the ‘Rubber Rhomboid’ effect. In: McTear, M.F., Creaney, N. (eds) AI and Cognitive Science ’90. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3542-5_13
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