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September 17, 2005
Visual Illusion
What is the illusion about?: This visual illusion is one of the most intriguing ones that I have ever seen. A man on a crate and a boy are painting a fence. This fence has words on it like "EAT" and "FLAKE CAKE", and the words are progressively smaller until they become unreadable in the background of the picture. Located in the picture is a road, phone lines, and a sidewalk, which is abutting the fence.
What is happening?: I was completely dumbfounded when I found that the man in the background is shorter than the boy in the foreground. There is a caption underneath the picture that indicates this. I had to actually take a ruler out just to make sure that it was true, and it is. The boy is about 2.7 cm while the man on the crate is about 2.3 cm. I guess the fence just grows larger and larger into the foreground. This visual image is astounding! This is picture is a representation of the effects of perspective on the human eye. Here, though, the size is particularly hard to distinguish.
Website: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://etc.usf.edu/clipart /4000/4003/illusion7lg.gif&imgrefurl=http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/ 4000/4003/illusion_7.htm&h=564&w=700&sz=30&tbnid=2k1aS4bDXGgJ:&tbnh =111&tbnw=138&hl=en&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvisual%2Billusion%2 6svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D
(Make sure to look at the bigger picture, not the smaller one at the top of the webpage) -Christina
Posted by lcisgancarz at September 17, 2005 08:36 PM