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{{Short description|Optical illusion}} '''Hooper's paradox''' is a [[falsidical paradox]] based on an optical illusion. A geometric shape with an area of 32 units is dissected into four ...

...le: the '''perceived visual angle''' or '''perceived angular size'''. An [[optical illusion]] where the physical and subjective angles differ is then called a ...of different sizes. Angular size illusions are contrasted with linear size illusions, in which two objects that are the same physical size do not appear so. An ...

...wood Press |isbn=9780313240270 |edition=revised}}</ref> who studied visual illusions including his work on the [[Delboeuf illusion]].<ref name=":43" /> He studi ...[[Joseph Plateau]], who helped him publish his first two notes on optical illusions in the Bulletin of the [[Royal Academy of Belgium]].<ref name=":43"/> He th ...

...e but 65 area units in the rectangle, this seeming contradiction is due an optical illusion as the four pieces don't fit exactly in the rectangle, but leave a ...the actual angles deviate only slightly from those values, it creates the optical illusion of the parallelogram being just a line segment and the pieces fitt ...

...volume=49|issue=744|issn=0262-4079|title=Are antimatter meteorites optical illusions?|journal=[[New Scientist]]}} ...

...sky]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kemp |first=Martin |title=The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat |date=1992 |publisher=Yal ...h elements: whether there is a vertical axis of symmetry; whether there is optical equilibrium; how many rotational symmetries it has; how wallpaper-like the ...

...ir_Ou_Les_Illusions_Perdues.jpg|left|thumb|''The Afternoon'' or ''The Lost Illusions'' (1843), by [[Charles Gleyre]], private collection]] In Mannerism, the Renaissance optical scheme of light and shadow was broken by suppressing the visual relationshi ...