By Vurdlak on October 5, 2007, with 118 Comments
As you may noticed, these two tables appear to have very different dimensions. In fact, the length of the green table is identical to the width of the red table. Also the length of the red table is identical to width of the green table. Quite impossible to believe, right? I attached another image to this post to show you that I was right (like I always am ;). Jump inside this post to see the proof! Very similar illusion can be found inside “relative sizes” category – “Table Tops Illusion“.
(30 votes)
the tables are not identical … if you use a ruler and measure the legths of the tables … the green one is 1/4 of and inch longer
i dont get thet at all! its really weird and confusing cuz the red table looks square and the green one a rectangle…
how can they be the same size?
I don’t know about that one the blue line definatley looks bigger on the green table
WOW
isnt a very good one
Nice try! Yes it is! :) :) :)
But, this seems to be a case of measurements applied without regard to perspective.
There’s actually about an 1/8″ difference on the green tables length and the red tables width but that’s still very good becuase the margin looks to be greater than that. The other dimensions are the same.
RE: TWIN TABLE OPTICAL ILLUSION.
Hi mate either you have really bad eye vison or you’re a bad illusionist , those 2 tables are NOT the same dimension in lenght and width and i can prove it too. I’d take the images of the screen if i were you, as its its just an in-correct ploy to attract people to whatever it is your advertising
I still find this hard to believe. that’s kinda crazy b/c they really look very different. Is it all b/c of perspective or does it have something to do with the background?
Wow, this is cool, I love these particular illusions. :)
thats awesome. you never cease to amaze me. keep on the good work.
thats amazing!
When you see it as a 2d-image, yes. But when you see it as a 3d-image, no. Our brain translates the height (blue line) of the green table to the depth, that’s why whe think it’s longer. When you look at the same blue line on the red table, our brain doesn’t need to translate this into depth, as it is not moving away from us.
Sorry for my bad English, hope you understand.
Emmer
wow that is so cool i actually cant belive it
Isso nem existe vc usou photoshop huahuahuahua ja entendi
i get how it works! the green table is farther off the ground, so it is bigger because it is closer, and the red table is down farther.
thats hard to believe!
The secret here is not to use perspective; the mesurements should be used in the plain image itself. This meas not to use the tiles on the floor to compare the tables.
Yes, the tiles show that the lengths and widths are actually different.
This is the equivalent of using a yard stick stuck upright in the sand to measure the distance of the ocean from the beach to the horizon. Still cool though!
Naruwan (“98th comment)
—–> great analogy!!!!!!!!!!!
…
Vurdlak was merely showing that the lines are the same, in context. Obviously, if you wanted to know the actual 3-d length/width, you’d have to measure parallel to the sides of the table (as mentioned by Norhild 9th comment).
But this is why it’s an optical illusion people!!! ;-)
Regardless how you look at it, I still think this is great illusion and it’s a wonderful….dare I say, table conversation piece?
For this to be correct, you would need a birds eye view of the tables and measure them then. But good illusion.
Everyone who doesn’t beleive it needs to shut up and measure it for themselves. It is correct
well if you measure the length of a man in a photograph to be equal to the height of a mountain in the background and find them to be equal in size to be an illusion, then this one is too.
Awesomeness! <333
They are actually NOT the same dimensions. The blue line should not be going at a 90* angle on the page, but from the table’s edge, so it is not the length of the green table but in face falls short of the actual length. So even though the blue lines are the same size on the page, it should in face be longer on the green table, which it is not. The same can be said for the yellow line on the red table.
OK, break out your ruler……..this is a lie. The width is not the same as the length on either of them….. Don’t believe everything you see or read…. CHECK FOR YOURSELF!!!!
Ohhh. The same goes on the picture with the yellow and blue lines. The yellow lines are different sizes, as are the blue lines.
RUBBISH!!! if you look at the amount of patterned squares/tles between the width of the red and length of the green you can blatantly see that the green has far more than the red
It right.. But I just cant get my mind around it, it looks so wrong!
It’s correct. You can’t count by the tiles because the tiles get smaller as they go back. The tiles do not accurately show measurement.
It IS supposed to be going 90 degrees down because it measures perception and not actual length or width.
You guys are making stupid arguments that don’t apply with the rules of the illusion. It’s an illusion of optics and not one of actuality. The tables are very well different lengths and widths in reality but because of perception they look the same. That’s what the illusion is saying.
Wow you all look like fools…. The width is not affected by perspective…… you CANNOT compare width and lentgth by measuring the lines on your screen !!!!!!!! this is why it looks wrong but is “true”
Eh, i measure it and um… the lines are not the same length…
Nice Illusion. The objects in the picture are in an isometric view and the blue and yellow strips (in the 2nd photo) are two dimentional.
yea… not the same lenght… THAT is the illusion!! lol
instead of saying the width and length of the tables, it should have stated the width and length of the rhombus’. it’s the background percepting distance and angle making us think they are different sized tables
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are def, different diminsions this photo is a fraud
If you have an iPhone or similar phone, hold the phone about foot or so from your face then begin to tilt the screen downward slowly. At one point the shapes will be the same (visually to you). As you keep tilting the screen eventually the red table becomes more like a rectangle and the green table like a square.