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Human observers detected the global three-dimensional organization of visual patterns consisting of only two successive frames of randomly positioned dots, corresponding to projections of a rotating sphere. A perfectly coherent sphere yielded a stable perceptual organization that was detected more accurately than other slightly less organized patterns.
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Lappin et al. (1980) studied this question.
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