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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
NS - the rectangles have nothing to do with it. The hypotenuse lines on the small triangles have been slightly altered. The triangles in the first drawing are simply not the same as the like-colored triangles in the second one. It's *absolutely all* in the hypotenuse lines.
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The triangles are the same size in each diagram. All the components are identical. The illusion is caused by the fact that the triangles are not mathematicaly similar.
The rectagles just serve to show the effect.