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Showing posts with label Moon Illusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon Illusion. Show all posts

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Moon Illusion


Presented another answer to the age old question of why the moon comes into view larger close to the horizon than at the pinnacle.

Joseph Antonides and Toshiro Kubota from Susquehanna University (USA) re-opened the debate around the famous optical illusion. According to their theory, the illusion is due to inconsistency between the estimates of distances, which allow the brain is subjective picture of the world and according to binocular vision.