Optical illusion with identical photos is messing with the crowd

From time to time, the internet goes crazy with optical illusions that mess with the sight and brain of the crowd. It was like that with the dress that was not known the color, with the cigar on the wall and the paint on the legs. Now, to a lesser extent - for now - people are trying to figure out what happens in the two images of a street that look quite different.

The original publication says that the photos of a cobblestone street are identical, with no editing trick. However, as the street seems to be going in different directions, many people think that the angle changes from one image to another. It will be? Check it out for yourself:

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Since the streets in both photos “meet” at the bottom of the image that puts them side by side, one gets the impression that it is not the same photograph. One Reddit user even edited to overlay the two photos and prove they are the same. But even so, many people still have trouble understanding.

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First, the images have been whitened for easier comparison.

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Then both overlapped to prove that they are the very same photo

The Daily Mail tried to explain the situation by comparing this optical illusion with another very famous example: the "Coffee Wall", where tiles in a cafeteria created the idea that parallel lines looked crooked. As the frame of our eyes becomes scrambled, the image formed in the brain is "distorted."

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Are the lines parallel?

The street image is not as simple as the one above, but the confusion mechanism is similar: the central edges of the image create a very sharp angle, leading us to believe that both photos are different.