From: LiveScience
Solved: How Optical Illusion Turns Circles Into Hexagons
November 15, 2011
LiveScience:
When you stare at a colorful image and then turn to look at a neutral background, a “ghost image” appears in contrasting colors. Now, new research finds that a similar illusion occurs with shapes, turning circles into hexagons and vice versa.
Though similar, the two visual phenomena have different causes. While the color optical illusion, occurs because of tired-out light-sensing cells in the eye, the shape afterimage illusion arises from the visual parts of the brain, said study researcher Hiroyuki Ito, of Kyushu University in Japan.
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