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  2. Troxler's fading - Wikipedia

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    Troxler's fading, also called Troxler fading or the Troxler effect, is an optical illusion affecting visual perception. When one fixates on a particular point for even a short period of time, an unchanging stimulus away from the fixation point will fade away and disappear. Research suggests that at least some portion of the perceptual phenomena ...

  3. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

  4. List of effects - Wikipedia

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    Wagon-wheel effect (optical illusion) Wahlund effect (evolution) (population genetics) Walker effect (illusions of self-motion) (spatial misconception) Walkman effect (computing and society) (technology) Wallace effect (evolutionary biology) (speciation) Warburg effect (biochemistry) (oncology) (photosynthesis) Wealth effect (economics and ...

  5. Illusory motion - Wikipedia

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    Billboards and other electronic signs use apparent motion to simulate moving text by flashing lights on and off as if the text is moving.. The term illusory motion, or motion illusion or apparent motion, refers to any optical illusion in which a static image appears to be moving due to the cognitive effects of interacting color contrasts, object shapes, and position. [1]

  6. Persistence of vision - Wikipedia

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    Persistence of vision is the optical illusion that occurs when the visual perception of an object does not cease for some time after the rays of light proceeding from it have ceased to enter the eye. [1] The illusion has also been described as "retinal persistence", [2] "persistence of impressions", [3] simply "persistence" and other variations ...

  7. Shepard elephant - Wikipedia

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    Shepard first published this optical paradox in his 1990 book Mind Sights (page 79) giving it the name "L'egs-istential Quandary". [2] It is the first entry in his chapter on "Figure-ground impossibilities". The pen-and-ink drawing is based on a dream Shepard had in 1974, and on the pencil sketch he made when he woke up. [2]

  8. Necker cube - Wikipedia

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    The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. [1] It is a simple wire-frame, two dimensional drawing of a cube with no visual cues as to its orientation, so it can be interpreted to have either the lower-left or the upper-right square as its front side.

  9. Grid illusion - Wikipedia

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    An example of the scintillating grid illusion. Dark dots seem to appear and disappear at intersections. The scintillating grid illusion is an optical illusion, discovered by E. and B. Lingelbach and M. Schrauf in 1994. [2] It is often considered a variation of the Hermann grid illusion but possesses different properties. [2] [3]