Lightness and contrast illusions help illuminate the visual system
You may not have noticed that the banner artwork for this month’s topic is itself an illusion, based on a design by Stuart Anstis: Each diamond is identical, yet each row of diamonds appears to be darker than the row above it. I can construct a simpler version of the illusion with just two squares: [...]
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