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Sunday, 26 November 2017

Wibbly-wobbly liney-winey

There are no zig-zag lines in the image. But I had to manually add the red curves to convince myself this was true.


Original paper : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041669517742178

Optical illusions are a nice reminder that knowledge is not the same as perception.
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