• Geometricaloptical are visual illusions, also optical illusions, in which the geometrical properties of what is seen differ from those of the corresponding...
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    to describe this illusion was German psychologist Franz Müller-Lyer in 1889. His article presents a collection of geometrical illusions of size, including...
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    determining factor in the tilt's direction. Visual illusions Geometrical-optical illusions "Münsterberg illusion". Oxford Reference. Oxford University Press...
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    based on Kokichi Sugihara's ambiguous cylinder illusion. Distorting or geometrical-optical illusions are characterized by distortions of size, length...
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    geometrical-optical illusions highlighting how spatial context influences perception.Related illusions include: Zöllner illusion Müller-Lyer illusion...
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    The Ponzo illusion is a geometrical-optical illusion that takes its name from the Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo (1882–1960). Ponzo never claimed to...
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    to Optical illusion. Optical Illusion Examples by Great Optical Illusions Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena by Michael Bach Optical Illusions Database...
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    The Hering illusion is one of the geometrical-optical illusions and was discovered by the German physiologist Ewald Hering in 1861. When two straight and...
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    The Oppel–Kundt illusion is a geometric optical illusion that occurs when comparing the sizes of filled (with some visual elements, distractors) and unfilled...
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    The Müller-Lyer illusion is an optical illusion consisting of three stylized arrows. When viewers are asked to place a mark on the figure at the midpoint...
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    number of trompe-l'œil illusions alongside other optical illusions, captured through a one-shot take. Trompe-l'œil illusions have been used as gameplay...
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    Vanishing puzzle (category Optical illusions)
    A vanishing puzzle is a mechanical optical illusion comprising multiple pieces which can be rearranged to show different versions of a picture depicting...
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  • figures (see left) as was emphasized by Ernst Mach. As with geometrical-optical illusions the oblique effect can be examined at two levels. The physiological...
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    The Hollow-Face illusion (also known as Hollow-Mask illusion) is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal...
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    Vertical–horizontal illusion (Wikiversity tutorial) Geometrical-optical illusions Robinson, J.O. (1998). The psychology of visual illusion. Courier Dover Publications...
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    Missing square puzzle (category Optical illusions)
    The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes to help students reason about geometrical figures; or rather to teach them...
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  • Op art (redirect from Optical art)
    Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in...
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    Optics (redirect from Optical)
    one for the angle of orientation of the astigmatism. Optical illusions (also called visual illusions) are characterized by visually perceived images that...
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    in 1973, gradually expanding to become an award-winning complex of optical illusions and puzzling rooms and the world's first 3-D maze. Puzzling World...
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    The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. It is a simple wire-frame...
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  • including the "Perceiving the present" hypothesis to understand optical illusions, the "Nature-Harnessing" theory for the origins of writing, speech...
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    Shepard tables (category Optical illusions)
    book Mind Sights, a collection of illusions that he had created. It is one of the most powerful optical illusions, typically creating length miscalculations...
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    Hooper's paradox (category Optical illusions)
    Hooper's paradox is a falsidical paradox based on an optical illusion. A geometric shape with an area of 32 units is dissected into four parts, which...
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    The watercolor illusion, also referred to as the water-color effect, is an optical illusion in which a white area takes on a pale tint of a thin, bright...
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    specialized in visual perception and visual illusions of geometrical shape, brightness, color, in motion illusions and other visual phenomena like Gestalt...
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  • reflex, a reflex of the pulmonary stretch receptors Hering illusion, a geometrical-optical illusion Hering's law of equal innervation, a law of the physiology...
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    Ninio, J (2014). "Geometrical Illusions are Not Always Where You Think They Are : A review of some classical and less classical illusions, and ways to describe...
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    like Plato's Cursed Triangle, are based on mathematical, geometrical, and/or optical illusions. One such online magic trick, called Esmeralda's Crystal...
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  • Visual space (category Illusions)
    neurological condition, and the many common distortions, called geometrical-optical illusions, are widely demonstrated but of minor consequence. Its founder...
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    when compared with converging chevrons. There are numerous similar geometrical illusions known now. Phasen der Kultur und Richtungslinien des Fortschritts...
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