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The appearance of circular Moiré fringes when a random dot pattern is superimposed on itself provides new evidence that the human visual process may include the computation of local autocorrelations by excitation of line detectors.
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GLASS, L. Moiré Effect from Random Dots. Nature 223, 578–580 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223578a0
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