They are or not parallels?

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Author:

OSjerick

Last Updated:

10 years ago

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Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

Abstract:

The perpendicular lines that do not match row to row create an illusion of the lines between them being not parallel.

Submitted as an answer to the Showcase of Optical Illusions question on TeX SX.

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% Source: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/149780/23931
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\begin{document}
    \pagecolor{gray}
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \pgfmathsetmacro{\offsety}{.05};
        \foreach \y / \offsetx in {0/0.3,1/0.5,2/0.3,3/0,4/0.3,5/0.5,6/0.3,7/0,8/0.3}
            \foreach \x in {0,...,10}{%
                \pgfmathifthenelse{mod(\x,2) == 0}{"black"}{"white"}
                %\ifodd\x \def\squarecolor{white} \else \def\squarecolor{black} \fi %Other way, use \squarecolor inside fill options
                \fill[\pgfmathresult] ($(\x,\y)+(\offsetx,\offsety*\y)$) rectangle +(1,1);
            }
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

They are or not parallels?

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