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Johann Oppel conducted one of the earliest investigations on optical illusions in 1854. The Oppel-Kundt illusion is a geometric model in which a set distance, separated by a graduation of lines, looks longer than the same distance without the lines. The illusion caught the scientist’s attention, after he noted recurring errors in his students’ sketches.
