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An experiment by Colin
Pitblado and Lloyd Kaufman,
then at the Sperry Rand
Research Center, supports the
theory that the Poggendorff
illusion results from
displacement of angle contours.
They used a stereoscope to
present a rectangle against a
background of converging
lines, shown in the stereogram
at left. The rectangle appeared
in a vertical plane, separate
from the converging lines,
which appeared in another
plane even though the retinal
image still contained the
crossing of the rectangleΓÇÖs
vertical contours and the
converging line contours.
Observers saw a distorted
rectangle. The top edge looked
longer than the bottom edge,
presumably because the sides
appeared to slope outward, due
to overestimation of the angles
at the intersections of the
rectangleΓÇÖs sides with the
converging lines. Earlier, the
same investigators did a
variation of this experiment.
They found that the Ponzo
illusion disappeared with
stereo viewing, suggesting that
the original Ponzo effect,
unlike the intersecting-lines
variation, was the outcome
solely of inappropriate depth
processing.