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Monday, June 2, 2025
White's Illusion
Look at the darker gray bars in column A and then at the lighter gray bars in column B. Your brain sees them as different shades even though they are identical. This is an example of White's Illusion, where an area's lightness is influenced by the part of the surroundings to which the area appears to belong. In column A, the gray bars appear to be part of the long horizontal black bars; in column B, they appear to be part of the long horizontal white bars. If you believe your eyes are different, do what I did: take pieces of paper, cover the black and white portions, and watch as they become the same shade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White's_illusion