Title: Bi-Stability - The Necker Cube

About.

To illustrate the phenomenon of bi-stability I decided to use the image of an outlined three- dimensional cube more commonly known as a Necker Cube. The Necker Cube gives no visual hints from which its orientation can be determined. It can either be said that cube makes use of the lower-right as its front side or that the cube’s upper-left is acting as the front side, and both would be totally legitimate answers.

I drew over the image of the cube, playing with perspective to create these two possible ways of viewing the cube, using different colours to further identify the two states and make them more explicit.

Using some logic I implemented a function where the user can toggle between the two states flipping through the loaded images of different states. One state shows the cube facing to the left and towards the user while the other shows the cube facing to the right and away from the user. I believe adding colour presents the characteristics of the image more clearly and makes it easier to distinguish. Therefore this produces an emphasis on the bi-stability features of the Necker Cube.

This project was part of a coursework submission for the Perception and Multimedia Computing Module in year II of my BSc. (Hons) Digital Arts Computing Degree. All source code for this project can be found at my Git Lab account by following the link below.

https://gitlab.doc.gold.ac.uk/mtabo002/coursework-one/tree/master/LAB1/PAM1B