Optical illusions and brain teasers are getting pretty popular nowadays. People like the idea of exercising their minds to figure out what a new optical illusion means.?
Now, a new?optical illusion?is making people scratch their heads.?This illusion shows two yellow lines on a railway track-but can you tell which one is longer? You just have 10 seconds to do it.?
The image is seemingly of a railway track in black. But if you look with a greater degree of concentration, you will see two horizontal yellow lines placed at a distance from each other.?
Your task is to interpret which of these lines is longer. Is it the one closer to you? Or is the farther one at a distance???
At first glance, it would appear the two lines are completely different in size.?
Any normal person would look at the image and say that the one farthest away is obviously long, and the one closer to you is shorter, right?
But, sorry to break it to you, it's not what it appears to be.
This is actually an?optical illusion and both yellow lines are exactly the same size.
The?Ponzo illusion?is an?optical illusion in which a pair of converging lines distorts the perception of two identically sized lines. For example, the outside borders of a road or railroad appear to converge as they recede into the distance.
The Ponzo illusion involves placing two lines over an illustration of a railroad track. Which line is longer??When looking at the image, viewers routinely see the upper bar (where the converging lines are closer) as larger than the lower bar. In reality, the two bars are of identical size.
The?Ponzo illusion?was first published by the?Italian?psychologist?Mario Ponzo in 1913.?
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