Where Was My Head?

(10 votes)

Picture is worth thousands of words. I really loved this optical illusion: it’s artistic, has that special thouch, yet misses one important part – human head. I beleive you all know how this was done. Not only does the guy appear he’s wearing no head, but also appears that plate he is carrying, is preparing [...]

Invisible Cloak Video Clip

(6 votes)

Remember our previous post, talking on recently discovered optical camouflage techniques? Well, here are some combined videos that show this invention even more realistic. For now, there are two techniques I am aware of. First one, where the behind-object image is projected on the surface of the object we want to make “invisible”. This technique [...]

Mosaic Screensaver

(8 votes)

The idea came from Apple as inovative way for users to compose their own Mosaic Screensavers, and in the same time great advertisment for Apple’s products, like iPod, Mac etc. You can download the software here, and play arroud with it, it’s much fun! Try it. You might also want to check Steve Jobs Photomosaic.

Weird Line Thing Optical Illusion

(3 votes)

This is what I just found in my mail box. One of our fans, Arturo Contreras was messing with photoshop, and accidentally created this optical illusion. As you see, the horizontal lines appear bent and distorted, while infact they are perfectly straight. This shows you how some of the “greatest” inventions in the history of [...]

Elusive Victory

(7 votes)

This ironic billboard for “Bush Reelected” edition of Veja Magazine won number of prizes arround the world. It isn’t noticable at the first sight, but if you know how to read “between the lines”, you will notice there’s a Davnici-Code-style of encrypted letters between the first noticed “Victory” letters. Can you decode it and read [...]

Kissing a Sphinx

(9 votes)

This one is old, circulating the web for some time now, but either way much fun! It looks like this girl is kissing smaller replica of Sphinx statue, that was originally built by Egyptians 2000 B.C. But wait, it’s the real Sphinx statue! This picture can work either if the women is a giant godzilla-sized, [...]

Zoomorphic Calligraphy Illusions

(12 votes)

Zoomorphic Calligraphy established itself only relatively late in Islamic art, when the taboos outlawing religious iconography had lost some of their power. It is an art developed in Ottoman Turkey, India and Qajar Iran. People say, it was known as early as 1458. Most of the below zoomorphic and anthropomorphic optical illusions were done by [...]

Highest Tennis Court In The World

(5 votes)

Sorry, not a true optical illusion this time, but I really had to post this amazing set of images. What’s going on here, is that this is the World’s highest tennis court. The photos are taken when Andre Agassi and the world No. 1, Roger Federer were shooting a commercial for Dubai Duty Free Men’s [...]