Café Wall Illusion in Docklands Melbourne (Parallel Lines Illusion)

Australia, Melbourne: building design inspired by well known Café Wall in Bristol.

The café wall illusion, sometimes also called the Münsterberg illusion (Ashton Raggatt McDougall 2006), is an optical illusion produced by a black and white rectangular tessellation when the tiles are shifted in a zigzag pattern, as illustrated above. While the pattern seems to diverge towards the upper and lower right corners in the upper figure, the gray lines are actually parallel. Interestingly, the illusion greatly diminishes if black lines are used instead of gray.

Parallel Lines Illusion Example

Well known Café Wall in Bristol

These are two new photos taken in Australia by Rikx from Flickr.

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