The wire-frame cube is maybe the oldest, and certainly the simplest, of the classic optical illusions. Something anybody can draw and then watch the faces flip back and forrth--now one face is in front... no, suddenly it's in the back, and so on. The question is: who's making the decision to flip it, and why?

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