“The
Leaning Tower Illusion”
Tower of Pisa
"The
Leaning Tower Illusion" work of Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi
and Elena Gneorghiu (McGill University, Canada)
is recognized by Neural Correlate Society as the best illusion, 2007.
©
2007 Kingdom, Yoonessi & Gheorghiu |
Here
is two pictures of the Leaning Tower of Pisa,
but the two pictures are exactly the same, ie, it is one and the same
picture.
However, it seems that the right tower is inclined more than the left
as photographed with another point.
The illusion consists in that our brain
perceives the two images as if they were part of the whole.
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Typically,
two parallel columns, standing nearby, we perceive converging to
a single point on the laws of perspective, as in the case of the
columns of the temple of Artemis in Jordan, that you see in the
picture on the right. |
Temple
of Artemis in Jordan |
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