Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. artistic concepts
6. formal concepts (artistic concept)
7. [visual and representational concepts]
8. optical illusion

Anotations

Scope note:

An optical effect manifested as a series of alternating light and dark colored bands; generally caused when one piece of glass with a curved surface rests on another with a flat surface, resulting in an interference of light waves. Named for the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton who first investigated their properties.