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[The name of Louis Albert Necker (1786–1861), Swiss naturalist and mineralogist, who described the phenomenon in 1832 (Phil. Mag. I. 329).]
Necker('s) cube: a line drawing of a transparent cube in which parallel sides are drawn with the same length, so that one seems to look successively down at the top and up at the bottom as the perspective reverses.
1901E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. ii. ix. 309 The Instructor should have a few prepared as large wall-diagrams:..Schröder's stair-figure, Necker's cube,..the. Müller-Lyer figure. 1938R. S. Woodworth Exper. Psychol. xxv. 628 Many line drawings readily suggest three dimensions and are called figures of ambiguous or reversible perspective. The Necker cube and the Schröder staircase are the best known. 1966R. L. Gregory Eye & Brain xiii. 231 Certain figures..are ambiguously seen in depth, for example the Necker cube. 1975Sci. Amer. Jan. 8/1 Rubin's well-known vase, Schröder's stairs and Necker's cube did almost certainly provide the seed of inspiration for M. C. Escher's work on the regular subdivision of the plane. |