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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_spheres_optical_illusion.png
Image: Rainer Knäpper, Free Art License

An illusion by University of Texas engineer David Novick: All the spheres have the same light-brown base color (RGB 255,188,144). The intervening foreground stripes seem to impart different hues. See this Twitter thread for the same image with the foreground stripes removed.

March 4, 2025March 4, 2025 | Oddities · Science & Math

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