Abstract
Some illusions depend on cultural experiences or expectations, but Mach bands are innate to everyone. Ernst Mach postulated that the perceptual enhancement of contrast at border derived from physiologic interactions with the retina. This insight explained phenomena tht had been used consciously or unconsciously by artists for millennia. This is discussed with examples in this article.
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Marmor, M.F. (1997). Mach Bands and Art. In: Lakshminarayanan, V. (eds) Basic and Clinical Applications of Vision Science. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5698-1_57
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