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Mach's band
Also known as:
Mach's delusion
Mach’s effect
Mach’s stripes
Associated persons:
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach
Description:
This optical delusion is the tendency of the human eye to see bright or dark bands near the boundaries between areas of sharply differing illumination, for example between areas of varying density in an x-ray picture. There is still discussion concerning its physical basis of this phenomenon.
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