Recursive Mac Illusion

(5 votes)

Alex White wrote: “Hey! I’ve been checking out your site for a while, even downloaded a widget for my dashboard! A while ago, I had my wallpaper set to an image of my apple powerbook, one day I photoshopped my screenshot inside the screen of the wallpaper and screenshotted that and so on and so [...]

Circular Endless Staircase Illusion

(2 votes)

Daryl Toops sent in another creation: “Another one of my ideas, based on MC Escher’s work. I always wondered why he never made his famous endless staircase (Ascending) in a circular shape. After I spent months on the design, making it look right, I now know why… Enjoy!”

Man Holding a Calculator

(3 votes)

Simmilar illusions were posted number of times here, on Mighty Optical Illusions. Still I never get tired of user submitted illusions, so here’s a new example of Hand inside the Monitor. Harvey Layton, creator of this image said: “Sorry bout the quality of photo. No hands left to take the pic.” Can you solve how [...]

Chess Steps Illusion

(2 votes)

This impossible chess board was created by Dave Barlow 2006. It’s pretty simple, yet so impressive. Expect two more original illusions from Dave in the following week!

3D Heart Stencils Illusion

(4 votes)

These heart stencils look pretty much photoshopped, while actually it’s bunch of paper stencils put one on top of the other and scanned. Moon Li sent this in, and this is what she wrote: “Since some people have sent in some optical illusions, I thought I wanted to try too. It’s not much of an [...]

River At Sunset Illusion

(1 votes)

I’ll let Henry describe this one by himself: “It was in Oxford on the river at sunset, and basically the sky and the river are identical, and so it can be viewed any way up, one way the water seems to be lit up than the sky and the other way, it looks like the [...]

The Cage Triple Illusion

(2 votes)

Today I present you Peter Baker’s work. Open the image full size to see the effect better. This is description Peter provided: “Hi there! Here’s an illusion I created a year or two back, playing with equiluminance to generate a false sense of motion, and foreground background reversal. (And maximising attention by diagonalising the grid.) [...]

User Submitted Illusions: The Collection

(8 votes)

These are some of the optical illusions that I received in the past; most of them while enjoying my vacation. All of them were submitted by our loyal users, but weren’t typical for my site. Not to forget about them, I decided to post all of them inside this post. Feel free to comment which [...]

WTC Devil and MS Word Illusion

(8 votes)

Alexander Grando sent this few week ago: “Maybe you will enjoy this picture? I remember seeing this first around the time of 9/11, it’s a picture of the twin towers burning during the attack. I can see a face in it which is circled. Some I showed could not. Scary”. Be sure to open this [...]

Vanishing Stripes

(2 votes)

Concentrate on the red spot in the middle of the rectangle, and watch gray stripes disappear! This one is really cool, eventhough simmilar illusions have been posted in the past. Can you explain why this effect happens? I would really like to know why! P.S. Due to popular demand, Mac games are bout to [...]