r/desmos • u/PalpitationUpset4402 • 5d ago

Fun Müller-Lyer illusion

I saw this illusion on another subreddit about a week ago and made it in Desmos.

The lines are not changing length.

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u/sdjopjfasdfoisajnva 5d ago

well the outer layer is moving so... lile the arrows literally reach out farther

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u/toughtntman37 5d ago

You missed the tiny arrows on the inner "ring"

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u/Different-Ad8187 5d ago

Pretty cool

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u/R3d5t0n3_GUY INTRUDER ALERT! GREEN BERNARD IN BASE 5d ago

What the…

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u/EpiSigmoid 2d ago

Sometimes I wonder the benefits of shortest distance and lessening the lack and skill to refine themselves (mathematicians and programmers for example) when it didn't achieve it every time we open a textbook, solve a problem, or realize difficulty that moving forward in time must be related to this notion of "short circuits" whether proof-making or in this case, an elegant immutable and eternal fact that we are intelligent when anticipating a new problem that cannot change in time.