The Learning Tower illusion has been explained as a simple perspective illusion. I suggest that it is a variant of the Jastrow illusion, applied to perspective tilt, and that the original explanation is inconsistent with its own implicit assumptions and with the visual resolution of pictorial stimuli in general.
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