Question

Maha is looking at a drawing of train tracks converging into one point in the distance. When a red line is placed close to the front of the train tracks and an exact copy of that red line is placed toward the back of the tracks, the one to the back of the tracks will look _____. This is called the:

Answer 1

The correct answer is - larger than the front line; Ponzo illusion

Step-by-step explanation:

The Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo in 1913 presented an optical illusion that is called the Ponzo illusion. According to this illusion, we perceive the size of an object based on the background of the particular object.

He demonstrated this illusion by drawing two identical lines across a pair of converging line that makes it look like a train track and it appears that the back line draw is larger than the front line.

In the given case the background appears to be larger than the front line, however, both lines are identical but give Ponzo illusion.