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Ladies and Gentlemen, these three cars are the same size

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TGIF!
 
Pagusas said:
I love how optical illusions perfectly sum up how everything you think you know about life can be wrong.
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I'm sure Clydefrog is just being silly, for Friday. It's all the same car (same license plate) and the meters are in the middle of the sidewalk.

Or, you're playing, too. Happy Friday!
 
Just tried it in mspaint, everything I know is wrong
 
adamsappel said:
I'm sure Clydefrog is just being silly, for Friday. It's all the same car (same license plate) and the meters are in the middle of the sidewalk.

Or, you're playing, too. Happy Friday!
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Thats not the point, of course its shopped, its the exact same car duplicated 3 times, the point is what your mind is doing to the image. Its telling you, based off the information it has, that the 3 cars increase in size.

We know that is indeed false, but even fully knowing that, our brains still tell us they are when we glance at the picture.

Now apply that to the rest of your life. How many times do you think you make assumptions about things because your reason/logic tells you it has to be that way, based off all the supporting information?
 
Pagusas said:
Thats not the point, of course its shopped, its the exact same car duplicated 3 times, the point is what your mind is doing to the image. Its telling you, based off the information it has, that the 3 cars increase in size.

We know that is indeed false, but even fully knowing that, our brains still tell us they are when we glance at the picture.

Now apply that to the rest of your life. How many times do you think you make assumptions about things because your reason/logic tells you it has to be that way, based off all the supporting information?
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It looks bigger because in a normal image the cars should be decreasing in size. On the computer screen it's the same size but it's not really an illusion or something, it's an error. It's how someone might draw the physical size of receding cars before they learn about vanishing points.
 
Snkfanatic said:
Wow....had to open up Photoshop to confirm...I don't know anything anymore.
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use your hand.

just make a line from the lights... like you're making a toy gun with your hand...

WARNING..

Do not make toy gun gestures if you're 8 years old and at a public school.
 
My best friend is doing his thesis on something like this.

In short, his argument is that the more obstacles between yourself and the end point, the further you perceive the distance.

For instance, if I were too look at a tree from across the street with nothing in between, I would estimate the tree is fifteen feet away. But if there werw cars and other obstructions, I would estimate the tree is 20 feet away
 
Interesting.

The illusion is broken when you look at it sideways, so I guess our eyes are compensating based on what we expect the size to be when looking at it straight on.
 
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