Skye credited Gregory for inspiring her to create the illusion, one of 50 that she made before declaring this one her favorite. The Cafe Wall illusion follows on the heels of the Coffer Illusion ...

“This particular one is a combination of variations used by a brilliant illusion creator named Akiyoshi Kitaoka and the Cafe Wall made famous by Richard Gregory. “Other versions of this effect ...

The café wall optical illusion was first described by Richard Gregory, professor of neuropsychology at the University of Bristol, in 1979. The unusual visual effect was noticed in the tiling ...

The cafe wall optical illusion posted on Twitter challenges people to figure out if the lines are straight or bend at an angle. A myriad of optical illusions keeps us glued to our screens as we ...

Richard Gregory visits the original café wall in Bristol in 2010. | StevenBattle, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 You don't have to travel to Bristol to experience the illusion for yourself.

FoxyJnr987 then explained that the flag photo was a "Cafe Wall Illusion." "I rotated it so it looks like stripes and made the black squares red instead," FoxyJnr987 said.

The illusion demonstrates the power of luminance and how surrounding elements can trick our minds into seeing the subject of an image in different ways. For more mind-bending imagery, check out ...

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The cafe wall optical illusion. Fibonacci/ Wikimedia Commons In this optical illusion, the vertical lines in the image are perfectly straight and parallel, but they appear wavy.

The illusion was made by Victoria Skye, 58, a professional magician and illusion artist from Roswell, Georgia. The key to the illusion are the black and white diamond 'targets' at each intersection.

The internet loves a good old mind-boggling optical illusion and the latest one to cause a stir on social media is an artist’s take on the famous Cafe Wall illusion.