Comments on: Impossible shades of gray http://www.starchamber.com/2002/09/impossible-shades-of-gray.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:22:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Mike, who is also known by the name Onken http://www.starchamber.com/2002/09/impossible-shades-of-gray.html#comment-103 Mike, who is also known by the name Onken Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:15:39 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=481#comment-103 I can't believe this post is over a year and a half old! I recently received an email from someone else interested in optical illusions, linking me to a paper by a group at MIT that actually explains the checkerboard illusion (and similar illusions) in - perhaps too much - detail: <a href="http://persci.mit.edu/people/adelson/publications/gazzan.dir/gazzan.htm" rel="nofollow">http://persci.mit.edu/people/adelson/publications/gazzan.dir/gazzan.htm</a> Ain't the retina fascinatin'! I can’t believe this post is over a year and a half old! I recently received an email from someone else interested in optical illusions, linking me to a paper by a group at MIT that actually explains the checkerboard illusion (and similar illusions) in - perhaps too much - detail:

http://persci.mit.edu/people/adelson/publications/gazzan.dir/gazzan.htm

Ain’t the retina fascinatin’!

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