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Magic Tic-Tac-Toe

December 9, 2019Gianni Sarcone

Our visual system can interpret colors and shades in surprising ways. With this 3×3 Tic-Tac-Toe grid I would like to show that our sensibility to color brightness can be easily fooled. Well, do you notice something particular in the grid below?


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Animation, Color, Optical illusions, Paradox, Perception, Science, Vision deficiency color, grid, illusion, tic-tac-toe

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