What Color Is The Moon?

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Here’s how you all described the color of the moon:
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http://www.itsokaytobesmart.co....m/post/128880963932/

More about the white squares illusion: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/....~akitaoka/illgelbe.h

Checker shadow illusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Checker_shadow_illus

Special thanks to Dr. Alan Gilchrist!
Read his paper “Perceptual Organization in Lightness” http://www.gestaltrevision.be/....pdfs/oxford/Gilchris

Josef Albers “The Interaction of Color” https://www.brainpickings.org/....2013/08/16/interacti

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