Meaning of café-wall illusion | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“Staggered filled squares produce the café-wall illusion.”

“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.”

“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.”

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