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Printing the Underdetermined: Materializing Multi-solutionness in Figurative Paintings

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Figurative paintings are often approached as if they depict a single recoverable 3D scene: viewers infer depth and occlusion, and reconstruction pipelines attempt to converge to one stable model. We instead foreground multi-solutionness, the non-uniqueness of 3D configurations compatible with a single painted image, and propose a workflow that keeps this non-uniqueness visible and material. Multi-solutionness arises from two sources: unobserved content, where backsides and occluded volumes admit multiple plausible completions, and observed cues, where perspective, shading, and occlusion still

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