References in Popular Culture
The Necker cube is discussed to such extent in Robert J. Sawyer's 1998 science fiction novel Factoring Humanity that "Necker" becomes a verb, meaning to impel one's brain to switch from one perspective or perception to another.
In Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol comic book, issue 36/September 1990 page 14, a character named Mr. Jones, leader of one iteration of the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., as well as a former member of the Men in Blue of a shadowy faction of the U.S. military, constructs a three-dimensional Necker cube out of paper, meditates upon it in order to create new agents for his organization, and calling it a "delirium box," uses it as a weapon by making others look into it.
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