Movie 3.

The movie shows four versions of the same picture. 1: The original picture. It is composed of a number of easily legible words, written in “hollow” type. 2: In the second picture the letters are masked by strips. In this rendering we introduced additional contours by “closing” the fractional letters. This is the kind of rendering that one often finds in the literature. 3: In the third picture the letters are again masked, but the outlines of the parts are not closed. It is easier to read the text than in the case of the second picture. 4: in the fourth picture the maskers are revealed as gray bars. These are quite easily “discounted” in visual awareness, it is as if one sees the words run on behind them. Please click to play. (A higher quality clip is available for download on the i-Perception website.