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Inferior and Superior Mirages, and Fata Morgana

Misbehaving Shadow

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The shadow is an illusion created by a black cat stretched out in front of the white cat. Black cats are famously hard to photograph. For this reason they are called ‘voids’ online. This black cat looks like the shadow of the white cat, except that the shapes are not aligning.