University of Nevada Reno, USA, and Swarthmore College, USA
(© 2013 Gideon Caplovitz and Ryan Mruczek )
The size of a moving object can be radically misperceived when the viewer”s eyes are moving and the background against which it is moving is itself changing size. When the background is growing the object will appear to shrink. Conversely, when the background is shrinking the object will appear
to grow.