Optics principles. For example, the Ames room, Hering, Müller-Lyer, Orbison, Ponzo, Sander, and Wundt illusions all rely on the suggestion of the appearance of distance by using converging and diverging lines, in the same way that parallel light rays (or indeed any set of parallel lines) appear to converge at a vanishing point at infinity in two-dimensionally rendered images with artistic perspective. This suggestion is also responsible for the famous moon illusion where the moon, despite having essentially the same angular size, appears much larger near the horizon than it does at zenith. This illusion so confounded Ptolemy that he incorrectly
Getting to the Point Getting to the Point "Getting to the Point" is a song by the rock music group Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) from their 1986 album "Balance of Power". Released in the UK as the last single from the album in July 1986, it would be the last original release from the band for some fifteen years. Due to a strike on Epic's distribution department at the time of its release, the single did not make much of an impression on the singles chart. Its highest position was reported at number 95 in the UK. There was no release in the rest