Stereograms are presented which demonstrate that the perceptual salience of structure in Glass patterns may be destroyed or created by the introduction of stereoscopic depth effects. Novel three-dimensional pattern structures can also be produced. Proposals concerning the nature of the primal sketch are evaluated in the light of these findings, and it is concluded that the findings are consistent with the view that depth derived from disparity information is explicitly represented in the primal sketch.
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