White's illusion is a brightness illusion in which certain stripes of a black-and-white grating are replaced by gray rectangles (see the figure). Both of the gray bars of A and B have the same color, luminance, and opacity. The brightness of the gray rectangles appears to be closer to the brightness of the top and bottom bordering stripes. This is opposite to any explanation based on lateral inhibition; hence it cannot explain the illusion.[1] A similar illusion occurs when the horizontal stripes have different colors; this is known as the Munker–White illusion or the Munker illusion, based on the Bezold effect.[2][3]
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