The Zöllner Illusion
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| Author | Jiggerjaw |
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| Tags | author:jiggerjaw bitesized illusion rated |
| Created | 2007-11-09 |
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4 by 21 people.
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| Description | The Zöllner illusion is a classic optical illusion named after its discoverer, German astrophysicist Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner. In 1860, Zöllner sent his discovery in a letter to physicist and scholar J. C. Poggendorff, editor of Annalen der Physik und Chemie, who subsequently discovered the related Poggendorff illusion.
In this figure, the diagonal black lines seem to be unparallel, but in reality they are parallel. The shorter lines are on an angle to the longer lines. This angle helps to create the impression that one end of the longer lines is nearer to us than the other end. This is very similar to the way the Wundt illusion appears. It may be that the Zöllner illusion is caused by this impression of depth. |
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2011-08-20
brought this up
to a 4.
2008-03-24
Awww man
I was gonna do this. But I think I would've disabled ratings since it's so easy to do. Still, your looks a little better than mine.
2008-02-11
Interesting...
2007-11-09
hahaha 5 by 5 people
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2 for a little bit of effort and the informative descrip.
2 for a little bit of effort and the informative descrip.
2007-11-09
Conen__TG_
this is very cool to look at