{"id":140,"date":"2005-06-08T16:29:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2005\/06\/08\/amazing-checker-shadow-illusion\/"},"modified":"2005-06-08T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T06:33:03","slug":"amazing-checker-shadow-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2005\/06\/08\/amazing-checker-shadow-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing checker shadow illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Checker Shadow Illusion is the most mysterious optical illusion I have ever seen. No matter how long I stare at it, I can&#8217;t convince my eyes to believe it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/photopress\/checker_shadow_illusion_full.jpg\" title=\"Checker shadow illusion\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/photopress\/checker_shadow_illusion.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" alt=\"Checker shadow illusion\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two areas marked A and B are the same shade of grey in the picture. Print it out and fold the two parts together if you don&#8217;t believe it!<\/p>\n<p>The illusion was created by Edward H. Adelson, Professor of Vision Science at <abbr title=\"Massachusetts Institute of Technology\">MIT<\/abbr>. His <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/persci\/people\/adelson\/index.html\">website<\/a> has some more interesting illusions as well as a lot of theory to explain them.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Checker Shadow Illusion is the most mysterious optical illusion I have ever seen. No matter how long I stare at it, I can&#8217;t convince my eyes to believe it. The two areas marked A and B are the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2005\/06\/08\/amazing-checker-shadow-illusion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14,16],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}