帕特农神庙的视觉错觉只是传说

Optical illusions thought to have influenced the design of the ancient Greek temple are not backed up by evidence, finds Chris Simms ANCIENT Greek architects are said to have designed the Parthenon with curved lines to make it appear perfectly straight – but these optical illusions are a myth, according to a mathematician. Although the temple, built in the 5th century BC in Athens, appears straight, it famously has almost no straight lines or right angles. The enduring hypothesis is that it was built with architectural refinements to counteract the visual illusions that a viewer would experience. Essentially, they thought straight lines would look curved, so they built it curved to make it look straight. …