If you go to the new Museum of 3D Illusions, housed in a double storefront on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, try not to step on the people sprawled out on the floor. Don’t worry, they’re fine.

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With a new series of experiments, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have a better idea why we fall for a very old optical illusion called simultaneous brightness ...