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Necker cube

simple wire-frame drawing of a cube that can be perceived ambiguously with respect to the cube's orientation
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Necker cube

Summary

Necker cube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (250 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Necker cube's image is recorded as Necker cube.svg[2].
  • Louis-Albert Necker is named after Necker cube[3].
  • Necker cube's subclass of is recorded as multistable perception[4].
  • Necker cube's subclass of is recorded as optical illusion image[5].
  • Necker cube's Commons category is recorded as Necker cubes[6].
  • Necker cube's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fj_m[7].
  • Necker cube's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Necker-cube[8].
  • Necker cube's MathWorld ID is recorded as NeckerCube[9].
  • Necker cube's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[10].
  • Necker cube's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 116444002[11].

Why It Matters

Necker cube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (250 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Necker cube. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/necker-cube
MLA “Necker cube.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/necker-cube.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_necker-cube_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Necker cube}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/necker-cube}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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