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Letter: Optical tricks

Published 22 April 2009

From Deborah Moore

I found “That freaky feeling” very interesting (14 March, p 33). Though I did not try any of the tactile illusions on myself, I discovered that you had arranged for readers to get a demonstration of a different kind of illusion.

For a couple of minutes after reading item 7, which is printed in white on a black background, all the pages I looked at appeared to have stripes across them.

Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK

Issue no. 2705 published 25 April 2009

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