Timeline for Term used to describe two lines appearing closer to each other when lines are at a greater gradient
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| May 1, 2013 at 0:12 | answer | added | Abraham D Flaxman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 1:30 | comment | added | Jake Westfall | Interesting question, but perhaps most appropriate for the Cognitive Sciences stack exchange? | |
| Apr 24, 2013 at 0:19 | answer | added | EngrStudent | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 23, 2013 at 23:13 | comment | added | Glen_b | Cleveland and McGill (1985) discuss this issue (p831) "... the difficulty of detecting vertical distances between curves" but don't explicitly name it. This blogpost calls it the "tilted baseline problem". | |
| Apr 23, 2013 at 22:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackStats/status/326832641276014594 | ||
| Apr 23, 2013 at 22:51 | comment | added | Glen_b | Yes, this one often causes issues; the appearance of shrinkage is of course due to our tendency to perceive not the vertical distance, but at (roughly speaking) something closer to the normals to the curves. I can't say I know the name of the effect though. | |
| Apr 23, 2013 at 22:22 | history | asked | Bryce Thomas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |