eli5: How come our eyes immediately think the Scottish flag as white stripes instead of blue triangles? How come this occurs for some images and for others it doesn’t (like the flag of england?)

Question

[Click here to see the flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Scotland#/media/File:Flag_of_Scotland.svg)

In: 63

Answer 1

Well the white stripes is the center point and that’s where our brains focus on naturally. Our eyes and brain processing of the image is very lazy. We just look at an image and quickly identify it as quickly as possible and move on.