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Random-dot Moire dot patterns epitomize the local/global gap, the problem of perceiving global structures when only physical local information is available to the perceptual system. At present, no single theory appears to be able to account for all the phenomena these physically simple patterns generate.
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K. Prazdny (1986) studied this question.
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