These Mindbending Optical Illusions Will Break Your Brain

White’s Illusion

White’s illusion is a brightness illusion where stripes of black are white are partially replaced by a gray rectangle. Both the gray bars of A and B are the same color and opacity, but the brightness of the gray segments appear to be different based on the background.

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