Which One Is Larger - Jastrow Illusion
June 24, 2006 by Vurdlak
These days you can't trust anyone, anymore. This one is called Jastrow illusion. It is an optical illusion discovered by the American psychologist Joseph Jastrow in 1889. Oh, how sure I was that this illusion wasn't possible, and only another hoax, but after I watched the video I was convinced it's true. Amazing! As you see these two objects, even though appear different in sizes, they are actually exactly the same! I posted simmilar illusion previously, but now I obtained the video to convince you! Click on the image below to see the video. The video was shot in Hong Kong's Museum of Science.
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Your original post is a real illusion and worth thinking about.
This video is just a play with the camera lenses - the nearest object looks bigger than the one far away, and thus there's nothing special on it.
There seems to be a problem
Tried to whatch the video but it didn't work.
Couldn't download it, either.
omg that kinda weird
that doesnt really seem like all that "oh my gosh" type cool. but its interesting.
um they arnt the same size
haha, it's just the angle you're viewing it from, really
This is a very simple illusion you don't even need to watch the video....
The 2 figures here are Trapezoids and they are obviously the same size. They both have one big side and one small side, and in this picture they are matching the small side from the top figure with the big side from the bottom picture and taking the photograph from an angle were it's not so obvious, but you can still crearly see that the figure on top has its big side sticking out more to the left than the one in the bottom...
If you were to set both figures with theirbig sides matching, you would crearly see that they are the same size.
um i dont know what slavco means, cause trapezoids are not curved, and there is a chance that the shpaes have different size sides, but to me, it looks like the yellow one is simply further away then the orange one, because of the solid backround you almost can't tell. however there is some overlap, the red being "on top" of the yellow. however that is just my opinion
I click on the link and it takes me to a video with an alien in it. It does not look like the right video. That is a bummer.