The Café Wall Illusion

What’s going on?

The small black and white squares in the picture change how parts of the dark blue and light blue lines look to us.

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They trick your brain into seeing lots of wedge-like shapes, so it decides you are looking at diagonal lines, when you’re actually looking at horizontal lines!

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