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The impossible tuning fork is a good example of a figure-ground optical illusion. Tracing the body of the tuning fork leads to the background. What is figure and what is ground?
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Cover, T.M. (1987). Figure-Ground Problem for Sound. In: Cover, T.M., Gopinath, B. (eds) Open Problems in Communication and Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4808-8_51
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