The "figure-ground" illusion is commonly experienced when one gazes at the illustration of a white vase, the outline of which is created by two black profiles (see ).
The air rippled with record-setting heat above the parched ground, an illusion of water where water used to be.
The inner world is fertile ground for illusions to take root which then get projected into the world, thus influencing the perception of others about reality.
The woods seem to withdraw, even though the snow on the ground creates the illusion that you can see deeper into them.
His teammates have converged around Gladden, leaping in the air together — all except Morris, whose feet stay planted on the ground, giving the illusion that he is lifting them all by himself.
(Jacobi, 1812 25: vol. 3, 372 94) Fichte's next obvious step was to remove the ground of the illusion by declaring the ideal constructs of reason to be themselves the objects of the transcendent knowledge that reason desires — in effect, of identifying God with the logical order of things.
An example is the work of Italian Andrea Pozzo, whose murals on flat church ceilings, when viewed from the ground, give the illusion of a 3D dome covered in angels.
The realization begins to dawn that the "old" solid ground is an illusion and one is propelled to search for new ground in the form of new hope, new meaning, or another untested illusion.
These sequences make use of the SNES's Mode 7 capability to create a rotatable background, giving the illusion that the ground beneath Flammie is rendered in three dimensions.
Though grounded in theatrical illusion, the puppet Petrouchka, who has "died" for love as a type of Christ, is more real than the Charlatan wants to think.
When attaining the universal consciousness of humanity that transcends spatial and temporal determinations, the desires that derive their significance from one's personal condition as a spatio-temporal individual are seen for what they are, as being grounded upon the illusion of fragmentation, and they thereby lose much their compelling force.
