Take a look at one of the most well researched optical illusions, the Line Length Muller-Lyer Optical IllusionDid you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. - Steve Bluestone
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Line Length Muller-Lyer Optical Illusion

Which line is longer?

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Which line is longer in this optical illusion?

 

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They are both the same.

Explanation

This is one of the most studied optical illusions. It was created by a German psychiatrist named Franz Müller-Lyer in 1889. It is not well understood why this optical illusion works, but we think it because the first object is simply larger, and the second object is pointed.

See a variation of this class of Müller-Lyer optical illusions.

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