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Low-resolution pixel art lets a game be developed with comparatively-inexpensive assets and lets the brain interpolate the missing information.
My guess is that various obscuring distortions can have a similar effect. If your brain sees it as noise getting in the way of what's really there, it will try to fill in the correct stuff.