1/28/2004   slide 27
Rule 11: Convex Cusps = Occlusion
•“Construct subjective figures that occlude only if there are convex cusps.” [Hoffman 1998 p.57]
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Oriental Bird VI Print
Proof that we construct surfaces with optical illusion:
Zen koan—is the triangle there when you don’t look/ (like when tree falls and no one there does it make a sound? –or one hand clapping? We have to be there to “see” anything.

Tips of black stroke making up birds are carefully aligned, causing a subjective white surface to “appear” –be constructed. Note the white areas do not look like holes, but like fully rounded, realized surfaces of the birds.

Many other explanations, describe din book were put forth to describe this effect. Results of rules based on projection