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poggendorff illusionnounAn optical illusion involving the misperception of the position of one segment of a transverse line that has been interrupted by the contour of an intervening structure.
barber pole illusionnounAn optical illusion where, when a diagonally striped pole is rotated around its vertical axis (horizontally), it appears as though the stripes are moving in the direction of its vertical axis (downwards in the case of the animation to the right) rather than around it.
zöllner illusionnounAn optical illusion in which parallel lines are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections.
forced perspectivenounAn optical illusion in which an object appears of a different size or distance away than it actually is.
ebbinghaus illusionnounAn optical illusion whereby a disk appears smaller if surrounded by larger disks than if by smaller.
tribarnounA flag consisting of three stripes.
troxler effectnounAn optical illusion whereby, when a person fixes the gaze on a particular point, an unchanging stimulus away from the fixation point appears to fade away and disappear.
penrose staircasenounAn impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to be one.
penrose stepsnounAn impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to be one.
penrose stairsnounAn impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.
café wall illusionnounAn optical illusion in which the parallel straight dividing lines between staggered rows with alternating dark and light bricks appear to be sloped rather than parallel.
zöllner's linesnounSynonym of Zöllner illusion.
motion parallaxnoun(photography, optics) The illusion of higher speed travel of a foreground object moving, when it is closer to the observer/camera, than when it is further away.
ehrenstein illusionnounAn optical illusion in which the sides of a square placed inside a pattern of concentric circles take an apparent curved shape.
müller-lyer illusionnounAn optical illusion consisting of a stylized arrow whose midpoint appears to be closer to the tail end.
penrose trianglenounAn optical illusion depicting an impossible solid object made of three straight beams of square cross section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.
gravity hillnounA place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope.
phantogramnounA type of optical illusion that works by using perspectival anamorphosis of stereoscopic vision to create distorted images.
kanizsa trianglenounAn optical illusion in which a number of spatially separated fragments give the illusory impression of the contours of a triangle.
oblique effectnoun(phyisology) The relative deficiency in perceptual performance for oblique contours as compared to the performance for horizontal or vertical contours.

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