café-wall illusion

plural café-wall illusions

1. alternativeAlternative form of café wall illusion.

   Staggered filled squares produce the café-wall illusion.

   1995, Daniel B. Olfe, “Rectangular Arrays in Art and Pattern Design”, in Computer graphics for Design: From Algorithms to AutoCAD®, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Arrays of Graphical Elements), page 109

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   We still see the tapered tiers of the café-wall illusion even after we know their defining lines to be parallel, but we now accept our earlier impression as a naïve, less tangible, or less valid view.

   1995, Steve Hagen, “Inertia”, in How the World Can Be the Way It Is: An Inquiry for the New Millennium into Science, Philosophy, and Perception, Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, →ISBN, part III (What Matters), page 268

   The famous café-wall illusion is a variation of the shifted-chessboard or Münsterberg illusion, 1897, in which the lines between the rectangles are black instead of gray.

   2013, Paul M. Baars, “Estimated Sizes, Image Distortions, and Geometric Illusions”, in Illusion Confusion: The Wonderful World of Optical Deception, London: Thames & Hudson, published 2014, →ISBN, page 272