Abstract

The human visual system is often confronted with ambiguity in its interpretation of images. Many researchers believe that the visual system can be understood, in part, by investigating the constraints that it uses to arrive at its perceptions. Recently researchers have begun to appreciate the power that these constraints can provide for understanding subjective contours [1] and neon color spreading [2]. In this paper we will study some of the topological factors involved in neon color spreading [3] [4] using the constraint of “general position”.

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