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This optical illusion is so simple, yet so deceptive, that you should try it on your friends, and use it to win some bar bets, too [flash: 1:20]
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Very cool. Elegant as well, stripped to its bare essentials.
Ha, I'm gonna try that someday. Cool.
I think it's probably because the legs are bent out. the legs are farther apart at the bottom on the left lengthwise.
Cool though
Grrl, you might add a note that this illusion (and those very drawings, in fact) was created by Roger Shepard. This illusion's been floating around the internet without attribution for too long.
very nice trick. Thanks!