30 September 2013

Excellent example of the Ponzo Illusion


The above image was created by 'shopping three identical images of a car onto a photograph of a street.  The context of the photo (a receding street) creates in your mind the illusion that the cars are of different sizes - but they are exactly the same. ( I had to measure them to convince myself.)

At Neatorama, Alex Santoso has appended an animated gif to confirm the equality of the car images.

Here's another Ponzo Illusion:


Yes, get out your ruler.  We'll wait...

1 comment:

  1. When you look at the imageof the three cars, cock your head 30° to the left and you'll quickly see the cars are all the same size

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