Figures in the ground are actually a really cool way of taking images, they are simple, cool and quite strong. But from what i see, they are not only in the ground, but in frames, in shapes, in outlines and many other forms. This is what Google says about these figures 'Figure–ground organization is a type of perceptual grouping which is a vital necessity for recognizing objects through vision. In Gestalt psychology it is known as identifying a figure from the background. For example, you see words on a printed paper as the "figure" and the white sheet as the "background".
From what i can decipher from this explanation, the eyes sort of have to work to find the figures in an image, and sometimes they also have to focus at certain parts of the image to see the other part of it. Let me show an example...
From what i can decipher from this explanation, the eyes sort of have to work to find the figures in an image, and sometimes they also have to focus at certain parts of the image to see the other part of it. Let me show an example...
As you can see in this image, if you look at the white chess-lookalike pieces, you can only see the chess-lookalike pieces, but, if you look closely into the image, you can see that the outlining of each edge of the shapes form a human's body, pretty cool eh?