The horizontal lines are the same size. However, the upper one seems to be longer.
We are used to seeing depth. And we think the slanting lines going into the horizon are parallel (like a rail track). Something that is the same size in the distance seems bigger for the brain than the same object in the foreground. |  Example 1
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