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Mach Bands

Mach bands image

The Mach bands show the effect of contrast at a boundary. The image comprises five uniformly coloured bars. However at the boundary of a lighter bar with a darker bar, the edge of the lighter bar looks darker than the rest of that bar, whereas the edge of the darker bar looks lighter than the rest of the darker bar.