Well, can you? ~ Page 4

Mosaic from the house of Menander at Antioch
Third century AD
This image was taken from "Optical Illusions and the Visual Arts" by Ronald G. Carraher and Jacqueline B. Thurston.
Reinhold Book Corporation, New York. 1966
Look at the trapezoids around the border, which of them seem to be raised and which are sunken?
Perhaps the image below will make things clearer?

Color Concentrate Corporation logo
This logo was designed by Malcolm Grear
This image was taken from "Optical Illusions and the Visual Arts" by Ronald G. Carraher and Jacqueline B. Thurston.
Reinhold Book Corporation, New York. 1966
The logo looks as if it was based on the Kanizsa figures

Although it doesn't look like it, the distance between points A and B is the same as the distance between points B and C.

Which of the thin lines is longer? Sure?

Are the horizontal lines the same length? Or not?

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