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Explanation for The Leaning Tower illusion
The two images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa are identical, yet one has the impression that the tower on the right leans more, as if photographed from a different angle. The reason for this is because the visual system treats the two images as if part of a single scene. Normally, if two adjacent towers rise at the same angle, their image outlines converge as they recede from view due to perspective, and this is taken into account by the visual system. So when confronted with two towers whose corresponding outlines are parallel, the visual system assumes they must be diverging as they rise from view, and this is what we see. The illusion is not restricted to towers photographed from below, but works well with other scenes, such as railway tracks receding into the distance. What this illusion reveals is less to do with perspective, but how the visual system tends to treat two side-by-side images as if part of the same scene. However hard we try to think of the two photographs of the Leaning Tower as separate, albeit identical images of the same object, our visual system regards them as the Twin Towers of Pisa, whose perspective can only be interpreted in terms of one tower leaning more than the other.
HI Guys, wassup?
As predicted this thread got closed and reopened back ( thanks to our dear mods)
I would have missed this thread a lot today otherwise
Welcome back... but you can always start a new thread and name it "Randomness"
Thanks Jinxie.
Well that can never be the solution rather I would say thats running away from the problem. We can start many threads if the previous ones are closed, but with this sort of childish behaviour what guarantee it has that those wont be closed soon enough?
The solution is in changing our behaviour collectively and the pride is in keeping this thread alive
I admit I argued a bit in this thread.. but the troller who was provoking me is gone now(or atleast I hope so )
Thread reopened...
Great news
jinxeD_girl you cannot blame whiteknight ,,it was you who was replying....
you could ignore him...as we all were ignoring both of you during this lohore vs cantt discussion...
do not you know
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -mahatma gandhi
I am not completely blaming him.. I said "I admit I argued a bit", can you read english ?
And thanks for bringing in the moral police into the discussion
I was ignoring him.. but then thebrownguy was laughing at one of his comments.. and that made me really mad...
Anywayz, it is over now.. Do you prefer Coke or Pepsi ?