| Property |
Value |
| @id | the:PerceptualAmbiguityOfWater |
| type | Concept, Resource |
| broader | Formal Analysis, Interpretation, Subject Matter, visual art term, Water and Reflections |
| definition | The visual condition in which colors and forms seen in water cannot be definitively assigned to the surface, to objects beneath it, or to reflections upon it, producing productive perceptual uncertainty. |
| inScheme | Digital Art Terms |
| label | Perceptual ambiguity of water |
| scope note | Applies to paintings of water where the artist deliberately preserves the ambiguity between transparency, reflection, and substrate color. |
| skos:altLabel | Optical ambiguity in water, Surface-depth ambiguity |
| skos:exactMatch | Reflection_(physics) |