Ponzo Illusion

What: The Ponzo Illusion is a gorgeous example of your brain being too clever for its own good. It was cooked up by Mario Ponzo back in 1911 [1], and it&rsquo;s all about how your visual system uses depth cues to judge size, even when it really shouldn&rsquo;t. Those two orange horizontal lines? Exactly the same length. Your brain is doing the thing that makes the top one seem bigger. It&rsquo;s…