My prevailing theory is it creates a hypotenuse that makes their hypotenuse-leg look longer and your brain generalizes tgat impression/illusion to the other obliquely (and therefore: skinny-er)?

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    8 days ago

    The diagonal leg makes a hypotenuse which makes it seem longer and skinnier

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      8 days ago

      Well as a mathy guy, only with a pointed toe, otherwise the hypotenuse would make their foot be short from the floor LOL

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        8 days ago

        Its not about the distance to the floor so much as…something i cant quite put my finger on