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Optical illusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cognitive illusions are commonly divided into ambiguous illusions, distorting illusions, paradox illusions, or fiction illusions. They often exploit the predictive hypotheses of early visual processing.
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Distorting illusions are the most common, these illusions offer distortions of size, length, or curvature. They were simple to discover and are easily repeatable. Many are physiological illusions, such as the Café wall illusion which exploits the early visual system encoding for edges.
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Optical Illusions from the WWW ... Distorting illusions are characterized by distortions of size, length, or curvature. A striking example is the Café wall illusion. Another example is the famous Müller-Lyer illusion.
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The science behind optical illusions. ... Distorting illusions are those illusions that are of images that are visually distorted due to size, length, or curvature. The famous Mueller-Lyer illusion is an example of distorting illusions, which consists of a straight line with arrows on either ends.
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Cognitive illusions are commonly divided into ambiguous illusions, distorting illusions, paradox illusions, or fiction illusions. They often exploit the predictive hypotheses of early visual processing. Stereograms are based on a cognitive visual illusion.
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Presented here is a vast gallery of many different forms of Optical Illusions. Whether these optical illusions are conveyed through fractals, photographs, architecture, art, or old fashioned pen and ink, they are bound to remind you that "seeing is not believing."
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