Poggendorff illusion
A gap between the parallelogram on the left and those on the right seem to fool they into thinking which one the right is a continuation of that on the left. The effect is more pronounces when the parallelograms are thin and short and the gap between them is small. Naturally.
This is a variant of another Poggendorff's illusion.
References
- The Mind's Eye, Readings from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1986
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