Here is a bonus question that I recently dropped on my 25 students in Bio 4224/5224, Science of Vision. It is an optical illusion that results from the very fundamental fact that our retinas are not just simple light detectors. Our neural retinas, in our eyeballs, are part of our CNS (Central Nervous System) and the complex neural network of the retina serves to pull apart different aspects of what we view.
There are ONLY SIX shades of grey in this image. Each vertical bar is one constant shade of grey, but they do not look that way. Why? Feel free to use your hands or some paper to cover either side of a bar and view it on its own. It looks, one solid shade of grey. But in context of the other shades beside it, it changes. Feel free to post an answer here if you wish, on what this visual processing phenomenon is.