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From the great Japanese master of new optical illusions. The shades of yellow in the image created by Prof. Kitaoka are different, to the eye, but the surprise is that only the right-hand heart is actually yellow. The perceived faint yellow left-hand heart is not yellow.
How about a reverse color illusion? In the image by Prof. Kitaoka, you can see two distinct shades of green, one dark and one almost day-glo, but in fact the same color is used for both ``green" spirals.
In this amazing image by Prof. David Novick, relying on the same ``color assimilation illusion," all the spheres are precisely the same color, despite appearances!
Again, all the spheres have the
same base color, as you can verify by using the color picker
on an image editor. This general type of illusion is
usually referred to as the Munker Illusion. There is not
much on the internet about the form of the illusion seen here,
with horizontal or vertical grid lines of various
colors. The illusion can also be used to color a black
and white photo, just by superimposing grid lines of the
appropriate color. The illusion still works if the photo
is reduced in size so that the grid is almost invisible.