Beautiful curved grid?

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OSjerick

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A variant and a combination of Hering's and Zöllner's illusion. The red grid is completely straight all the time.

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

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TikZ Optical Illusions

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% Source: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/150306/23931
\documentclass[border=10pt,tikz]{standalone}
\pagecolor{gray!5}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[x=4cm,y=4cm,every rectangle node/.style={draw,thick,red,rotate=45,minimum width=0.707*4cm,minimum height=0.707*4cm}]
        \foreach \y in {1,...,3}
            \foreach \x in {1,...,3}{%
                \foreach \diameter in {1,...,6}
                    \draw[gray,thick] (\x,\y) circle (1/12*\diameter);
                \node[rectangle] at (\x,\y) {};
            }
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}