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In the word "ambigram", the root ambi-means "both" and is a popular prefix in a world of dualities, such as day/night, left/right, birth/death, good/evil. [150] In Wordplay: The Philosophy, Art, and Science of Ambigrams, [151] John Langdon mentions the yin and yang symbol as one of his major influences to create upside down words.
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The original design was enhanced and improved upon by me. I had provided the directions like the colour in which the calligraphy will appear. The technical work was carried out by my friend Ajit Sawant in the year 1998. The image lacked a sharpness to it, which was later provided to it by Shyam Shingare, again under my supervision in 2003.
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In a first-century mosaic tabletop from a Pompeiian triclinium (now in Naples), the skull is crowned with a carpenter's square and plumb-bob, which dangles before its empty eyesockets (Death as the great leveler), while below is an image of the ephemeral and changeable nature of life: a butterfly atop a wheel—a table for a philosopher's ...
Ambiguous images or reversible figures are visual forms that create ambiguity by exploiting graphical similarities and other properties of visual system interpretation between two or more distinct image forms.
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In Buddhism, the symbol of a wheel represents the perpetual cycle of death and rebirth that happens in samsara. [6] The symbol of a grave or tomb, especially one in a picturesque or unusual location, can be used to represent death, as in Nicolas Poussin's famous painting Et in Arcadia ego. Images of life in the afterlife are also symbols of death.