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This little trolley appears to be floating upside down

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By RocketNews24

This little optical illusion is brought to us by Twitter user @ks_aya and shows what can be accomplished with just the right lighting and angles.

After staring at the photo long enough to shake the illusion out of your brain, it’s plain to see that the trolley is just lying on the ground next to the shadow of a street light. However, since the position of the trolley lines up with the other shadows around it, it is easy for people to interpret it to be floating at first glance.

On the other hand, some people may not see the illusion right away and will have to stare at it for a bit to make it work, kind of like those pictures that look like both a rabbit and a duck.

Witnesses to this photographic magic trick were largely impressed.

“Oohhh I see. Interesting!” “That’s cute.” “Bravo!” “It’s great what you can do with shadows.” “Shouldn’t the shadow be a square?” “It really looks like it’s floating.” “Pssh, that’s clearly a CGI trolley.” “We really shouldn’t trust our eyes so much.”

It certainly is a neat trick and a good example for beginner art classes of how easy it can be to create a highly realistic sense of depth.

_Source: Twitter/@ksaya via Kinisoku

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Exactly i'ts just easy trick but we can see this illusion.

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Those of us who grew up watching Back to the Future 2 were promised. We were promised ;_;

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