Checker shadow illusion

The regions marked A and B are the same shade of gray.
A region of the same shade has been drawn connecting A and B.

The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion published by Edward H. Adelson, professor of vision science at MIT, in 1995. It demonstrates the context-dependent nature of human color perception.

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