Comedy Channel's "Hypnosis" Billboards
May 08, 2008 by Vurdlak
My excuse to all of you once again for not posting updates yesterday and day before. It's been a rushy week I have to admit. The landlord kicked me and my girlfriend out of the apartment because of my inability to keep my mouth shut and just obey landlords crazy terms. What can I say, I have short fuse when someone interferes with my freedom and citizen rights. Despite it all turned well, we managed to move in a single day and found better apartment (we always dreamed of). Not to bore you with my private life, here are some recent site statistics for the Mighty Optical Illusions website.
Things have started to roll in a direction I wanted. Alexa has recently updated it's system which has boosted our site to 28,000 ranking. Our PR stands still at PR5, but is predicted to jump to PR7 in next Google update. Also the traffic has been steady with around 30,000 unique visitors daily and over 100,000 daily impressions. My biggest goal is to leverage the site of all the ads, and give you lighter design, better interface and faster loading times, but in order to do so we have to find Golden Sponsor or Site Specific Advertising representation company which can fill $10 CPM spots. I'm doing my best to close some contracts, but still no luck. It would be my dream to remove all of the ads from the site, and keep only one premium spot, but in order to so we'd have to sign contract with Federated Media, Glam or similar network that can compete with the current rates.
Today's illusion is nothing special, yet very nice looking. Three posters you see below (2 are inside the article) are from Comedy Channel which used well known "Floating Letters" illusion, and tailored it to fit their advertising needs. I'm not sure if Comedy Channel is the same as Comedy Central TV Network. Any clue? Anyhow, their campaign is perfect example of clever advertising using optical illusions as a base - a perfect formula for huge customer response. This is something I always pushed advertisers to do for themselves, but sometimes its hard to get people just to sit and listen, even if its solely their profit. The biggest thing I've learned from this, is to never force making a favor for someone, that doesn't ask for it. It usually turns out people will be skeptic why are you helping them, and whats in it for you. Anyways, enjoy this post, new one is coming shortly!
Things have started to roll in a direction I wanted. Alexa has recently updated it's system which has boosted our site to 28,000 ranking. Our PR stands still at PR5, but is predicted to jump to PR7 in next Google update. Also the traffic has been steady with around 30,000 unique visitors daily and over 100,000 daily impressions. My biggest goal is to leverage the site of all the ads, and give you lighter design, better interface and faster loading times, but in order to do so we have to find Golden Sponsor or Site Specific Advertising representation company which can fill $10 CPM spots. I'm doing my best to close some contracts, but still no luck. It would be my dream to remove all of the ads from the site, and keep only one premium spot, but in order to so we'd have to sign contract with Federated Media, Glam or similar network that can compete with the current rates.
Today's illusion is nothing special, yet very nice looking. Three posters you see below (2 are inside the article) are from Comedy Channel which used well known "Floating Letters" illusion, and tailored it to fit their advertising needs. I'm not sure if Comedy Channel is the same as Comedy Central TV Network. Any clue? Anyhow, their campaign is perfect example of clever advertising using optical illusions as a base - a perfect formula for huge customer response. This is something I always pushed advertisers to do for themselves, but sometimes its hard to get people just to sit and listen, even if its solely their profit. The biggest thing I've learned from this, is to never force making a favor for someone, that doesn't ask for it. It usually turns out people will be skeptic why are you helping them, and whats in it for you. Anyways, enjoy this post, new one is coming shortly!
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Coffe Kiss Illusion by Tsang Cheung Shing
May 06, 2008 by Vurdlak
Hey everybody, look what I have just found. At first glance, this may look photoshopped, but it is actually a real sculpture! The author is Tsang Cheung Shing from Hong Kong. He created this installation for a pottery exhibition of “YingYeung” - a drink mixture of coffee and tea (very popular local drink in Hong Kong). The pottery, named Yuanyang II, is one of the collections of Hong Kong Museum of Art now displaying at the Central Concourse of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). Tsang Cheung-shing is a ceramic art tutor and product designer. Yuanyang II is modeled in a distinctive form with two figures indulged in kissing each other. Their heads support two elegant cups for drinking tea and coffee. The form and concept design fully complement the theme “Yuanyang" not only typical Hong Kong beverage of mixing tea and coffee which was already mentioned, but also a symbol of marriage and love. Hope you liked this post! Two more photos can be found inside the article.
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Get Off The Earth Optical Illusion
May 02, 2008 by Vurdlak
Stephanie Jones mailed me this awesome flick! Let's make her describe it herself: "Hi! I really enjoy your site, and when I came across this in my lecturer's blog, I thought I'd better send it in to you. It looks like another version of the Leprechauns illusion you have. One of the most popular puzzles ever created was the Get Off the Earth puzzle, invented by American's premier puzzlist, Sam Loyd, in 1898. Over ten million copies of the puzzle were produced.The puzzle shows a number of Chinese warriors around the rim of a circular piece of cardboard fastened at the center to a larger piece of cardboard so it can be turned. Part of each warrior is inside the circle and part is outside. When the disk is rotated from its initial position to its second position, one warrior disappears! The challenge is to explain how this "disappearing act" works.
Well, there never were 13 Chinamen. There were many parts of Chinamen, arms, legs, bodies, heads, and swords. And each had tiny slivers missing. Then when the Earth was rotated, these pieces were slightly rearranged. In particular, each of the 12 Chinamen gained a sliver of a Chinaman from his neighbor. For example, at the lower left, there are two Chinamen next to each other. The top one is missing a foot. When the Earth is rotated, he gains a foot from his neighbor on the right. That neighbor gains two feet (he lost one) and one small piece of a leg, etc.
This is a particularly good example of a vanishing puzzle. See The Extra Square, which is a vanishing puzzle in reverse. You can download the graphic below or the higher resolution file getoffearth.pdf Print on lightweight card stock. Cut out the second figure of the two figures. Place the disk so that the arrow points N.E. and count the warriors. Then turn the disk so that arrow points NW and count again.
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National Geographic's Shadow Zebras Illusion
May 01, 2008 by Vurdlak
Patty Winsauer sent this magnificent photo along with following text: "Hi. This is a picture my aunt e-mailed to me. It is from the Best Photo Awards by National Geographic. It took me a while to see the zebras, cuz I thought the zebras were gray and their shadows were striped. I'm not completely sure it could be classified as an illusion, but it still looks kinda cool." I decided to post this photo cause it reminded me of our previously successful Camel Shadows illusion. Previous illusion also won National Geographic's Best Photo Award. This one is great, but little too similar (in my opinion) to win the same award again. What is your opinion? Does this count as an illusion?
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Homer, Mario and Jessica Rabbit in Real Life
April 29, 2008 by Vurdlak
Pixeloo is an artist who created these magnificent real-life photos of Homer Simpson, Super Mario and Jessica Rabbit. For his profession, he works daily with Photoshop. Cartoon characters are his favorite inspiration, so he decided to transform them a little, giving them realistic real-life form. In his mutant creations, Pixeloo used face parts of some well known actors, and implemented them magnificently. For example Homer's bald head is mostly constructed out of John Locke's ("Lost") famous "helmet". Jessica Rabbit is another well known character that starred in Roger Rabbit, and her face was mostly fused with a photo of Angelina Jolie. See which other celebrity parts you can recognize!
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Josh Sommers' "Escheresques"
April 25, 2008 by Vurdlak
Hey everybody! I found an interesting artist on flickr, and have to admit am really amazed by all of his artwork. Most of the photos he shares are edited in photoshop, but the illusion they produce is usually independent from the digital manipulation. It amazed me when I found out he is the author of our previously posted CG Manipulated impossible structures. Josh Sommers is an amateur photographer, and is happy to share and teach others the techniques he uses. If you are interested in how to do something, feel free to send him a message through flickr. His Equirectangular panoramas, little planets and stereographic projections are all created using Canon Digital Rebel XTi, Canon 10-22mm lens, a Nodal Ninja 3 Tripod head, Hugin, Photoshop and Flexify. He is a Photoshop user since 1993. Below are 3 of his photos that took my attention. If they remind you of Escher, its not coincidence!
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Flower Face Optical Illusion
April 23, 2008 by Vurdlak
Hey everyone. Here are two interesting paintings done by Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo. From his academic beginnings, Ocampo has evolved toward a style of his own, free of deep crises and governed by his naturally playful penchant for mysterious atmospheres and optical illusions. Therefore, he has worked as a scenographer and as a muralist, enthralled by the deceit, the visual game... taking part in many art shows around the world. We might describe any of the paintings of this master of illusion with the words: "Seeing is believing". Octavio Ocampo was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico on February 28, 1943. Soon, "Octavio Ocampo Museum" in his hometown will be open. Below, you can see two flower paintings, that can also be seen in a different way. Can you spot the multiple meaning effect?
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Interactive Contrast Asynchrony Illusion
April 21, 2008 by Vurdlak
"The Contrast Asynchrony" optical illusion has been created by ShapiroLab enthusiasts. While the effect has been known for some time, variations of images, applications and games that give the best insight have been popping out regularly. This variation is surely my favorite. It is very easy to convince yourselves that the center disks are identical in shape and color - you can prove this by simply clicking on the "add/remove" button. The effect produced here is called "perceptual paradox". The disks appear to modulate out of phase and get light and dark at different moments. Experiment with the FLASH application below!Continue reading full article...
Rick Roll Afterimage Optical Illusion
April 17, 2008 by Vurdlak
I found this top quality Afterimage illusion and started to write an article about it. The image was titled "rick roll illusion", so I titled the article accordingly. The afterimage looked like the negative image of Bob Dylan, but Rick Roll is someone I never heard of. So I did a little research and was surprised by the results I received. Apparently, Rick-rolling is a prank and Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" written and produced by Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman.
The meme is a classic bait and switch: a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (and thus satisfying their curiosity). A person who falls for the prank is said to be "rickrolled". The practice began as a variant of an earlier prank called duckrolling, in which a link to a popular celebrity or news item would instead lead to a photoshopped picture of a duck with wheels.
Concerning the illusion, it works in the same way as Jesus Afterimage. You just have to stare at the little plus sign in the middle for about a minute, and then quickly look at the white surface. The effect will be stronger if you blink your eyes repeatedly.
The meme is a classic bait and switch: a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (and thus satisfying their curiosity). A person who falls for the prank is said to be "rickrolled". The practice began as a variant of an earlier prank called duckrolling, in which a link to a popular celebrity or news item would instead lead to a photoshopped picture of a duck with wheels.
Concerning the illusion, it works in the same way as Jesus Afterimage. You just have to stare at the little plus sign in the middle for about a minute, and then quickly look at the white surface. The effect will be stronger if you blink your eyes repeatedly.
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