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How the night sky tricks our brains!

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Here’s how you all described the color of the moon:

https://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmart/photos/a.337182013046136.73328.173915612706111/801410886623244/

http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/128880963932/hey-guys-im-working-on-an-upcoming-video-and

More about the white squares illusion: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/illgelbe.html

Checker shadow illusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

Special thanks to Dr. Alan Gilchrist!

Read his paper “Perceptual Organization in Lightness” http://www.gestaltrevision.be/pdfs/oxford/Gilchrist-Perceptual_organization_in_lightness.pdf

Josef Albers “The Interaction of Color” https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/16/interaction-of-color-josef-albers-50th-anniversary/

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