These Mindbending Optical Illusions Will Break Your Brain

Ponzo Illusion

The Ponzo illusion is a geometrical illusion first demonstrated by Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo in 1911. He hypothesized that the human mind judges an object’s size based on its background, demonstrating the suggestion by drawing two identical lines across a pair of converging lines.

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