The brain-bending secret behind hundreds of optical illusions has finally been revealed

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"Simultaneous contrast illusions" rely on altering the backgrounds of images to change how we perceive the colors and brightness of objects within them. Now, a computer model may have revealed exactly how they fool us.

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[ColoRickyboy]

I'll probably end up saying the same thing over and over but science is just cool. Pretty neat they were able to finally pinpoint what's going on, long after we knew the what, we know the why.