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It seems to everyone that road on two photos shot at different angles. But it's the same the

Added	Wed, 07/02/2018
Источники	meduza.io reddit.com gizmodo.com
Дата публикации	Wed, 07/02/2018
Версии	The effect of perceptual readiness

A Reddit user under the nickname djeclipz 6 Feb published a collage of two photographs depicting the lane, paved with tiles. At first glance it seems that these are two different pictures: the first picture of the road that goes straight, the second goes to the right.

But in fact it is one and the same picture.

As explains edition Sploid, the brain adopts the same the two are different due to perspectives and angles on the original photo — it seems that the road in the foreground should converge. This is due to the fact that the human brain perceives a two-dimensional image as three-dimensional and "think out" him.

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