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What shape do you think this hanging lamp is? A 3D box?
Well, it turns out, the side facing the camera is actually missing. Scroll down to the video if you don’t believe us!
There’s actually a name for this kind of trickery – ‘amodal perception’. It tricks our brains into thinking the entire structure is there (even though only parts of it are), because you have strong sensory experience about its completeness. In this case, that completeness is the shape of a square.
This is what it actually looks like:
This particular light – called the Lee Light – was created by Glen Lewis-Steele.
Watch the trickery below
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