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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

My brain just exploded

This optical illusion is amazing. Like Andy, I had to open it in Photoshop to verify its truth. According to the explanation, the illusion takes advantage of the way in which the human visual system evolved to differentiate shapes and find edges, not to make fine distinctions in color.