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Baffling optical illusion makes the ‘brickwork’ in this wall look wonky – does it work for you?

Have a look at our mind-bending optical illusion in which brickwork appears to be wobbling while in reality it’s perfectly straight. The illusion is inspired by the renowned café wall illusion, which has not yet been fully explained to this day.

The café wall illusion has been studied since the 1800s, but psychologists and philosophers alike have still not reached a conclusion as to why it baffles viewers so much. It takes its name from when British psychologist Richard Gregory noticed it as a pattern in the brickwork of a Bristol café. But he may not have been the first person to discover it, as similar chess-like illusions were studied as early as the late 1800s.

According to some theories, it may involve interactions between the neuron and the visual cortex of the brain, which receives and processes images from the eye, that cause us to focus on some aspects rather than others, but the link is still unclear to this day.

In this version, the brickwork in this ‘wall’ appears to be wobbly, when in reality it’s perfectly straight.

In fact, the horizontal lines dividing the ‘bricks’ are straight, but the human eye somehow sees them as ‘wonky’. Almost 100% of people see them wobbling. Does it work for you?

Selco brick wall optical illusion

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