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Letter: Shared illusions

Published 29 September 2010

From Phil Eaton

I read the “Why your brain flips over visual illusions” article (4 September, p 14), then the piece “Weird water lurks inside giant planets” (4 September, p 15), only to find that the diagram of a planet’s interior exhibited just the kind of perceptual visual switch discussed on the previous page. Sometimes the cutaway section appeared to be a pyramid protruding from the planet, and sometimes it appeared to be concave as intended. What a coincidental juxtaposition.

Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, UK

Issue no. 2780 published 2 October 2010

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