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Spirals (Macro)

The spirals macro shows an optical illusion demonstrating that our vision is optimized for non-quantitative measurements. The perception of colors depends highly on the context (i.e. the surrounding colors).

In the generated image, you perceive some yellow and some green-yellow bands, but they have exactly the same color:

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