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Poggendorf illusion

Poggendorf illusion

a visual illusion in which the two ends of a straight diagonal line seem to be offset from one another when the line appears to pass behind a figure with parallel vertical borders, such as a bar. [Johann Christian Poggendorf (1796–1877), German physicist]

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