Figure-Ground Perception | Definition, Principles & Types

animation enjoyer on Instagram: "A clip from "M.C. Escher: Sky and Water I" (1998). Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in Escher’s centenary year, this short film animates the artist’s 1938 woodcut Sky and Water I, transforming a static figure–ground illusion into a temporal one. As birds become fish and negative space becomes form, the animation reveals the underlying mechanics of M. C. Escher’s visual logic of symmetry, tessellation, and perceptual reversal, made visible through mot