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December 9, 2006 | 17 Comments

This time we have levitating platform… what’s next?! It’s like all the illusions lately have something to do with levitation… This one was submitted by Sebastian Malm with the following explanation: “Hi there! I was looking at the website for a performance venue in the Estonian countryside and I stumbled across this amazingly cool picture. [...]


December 9, 2006 | 60 Comments

Notice anything strange with this teddy bear? It looks big, but not so cute… Then again, maybe you should check inside this article for solution. But first try and guess what is the optical illusion. After you saw second photo, admit it – have you realized it before? Comment your findings please! If you like [...]


8 votes, average: 3.13 out of 58 votes, average: 3.13 out of 58 votes, average: 3.13 out of 58 votes, average: 3.13 out of 58 votes, average: 3.13 out of 5 (8 votes)

December 8, 2006 | 17 Comments

Another Impossible Object for you! Do you notice anything strange with these doors? I would like to meet a guy or a gal that is capable of constructing these doors! If you’re an expert, then let me give you a harder assignment: after solving impossible safe doors, try constructing artifact from hell! If this is [...]


December 7, 2006 | 26 Comments

Meraj, “Gamer and Illusioner” sent me three new illusions this morning. First one I’m posting is called “Reversed Face Illusion”, and can be seen below this text. It’s really similar to Margaret Thatcher illusion I posted in the past, that appeared on Boing-Boing and had success on other popular websites. If you look at the [...]


December 7, 2006 | 37 Comments

Update: This illusion was phottoshopped! Stated by the artist. Dear users, I’m sorry for this post, I found out only few minutes ago it was edited on computer. You can read it on utrave.org forums.
Levitation, Hovering and Flying were quite popular illusion themes on this site in the past – especially few months ago. [...]


14 votes, average: 4.36 out of 514 votes, average: 4.36 out of 514 votes, average: 4.36 out of 514 votes, average: 4.36 out of 514 votes, average: 4.36 out of 5 (14 votes)

December 6, 2006 | 31 Comments

Unbelievable! Check this out – open the picture below in full size, and you won’t believe that the image is actually still jpg! I posted many “animation” illusions to this site, but this one has the strongest effect I have ever seen! This optical illusion is one of the newest creations of Akiyoshi Kitaoka, master [...]


December 6, 2006 | 17 Comments

Amanda Gould emailed me very original question today: “Hy Vurdlak! Christmas is near, and I would love to present original gifts to my beloved ones. What kind of optical illusion present can you suggest? I believe this would be pretty original idea if you made some kind of list of original illusion and no-illusion holly [...]


2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 52 votes, average: 3.00 out of 52 votes, average: 3.00 out of 52 votes, average: 3.00 out of 52 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5 (2 votes)

December 6, 2006 | 9 Comments

Carlos Saraiva says: “Lightning McQueen is a toy in my hands”. Simple as that. This submission is one of the cutest I have ever received. Really bumps my spirit in time of forthcoming Christmas hollydays. As you probably concluded by now, this photo is real (no editing), and gives you impression this cute toy car [...]


December 5, 2006 | 13 Comments

Rob Clement emailed me: “I’ve been a frequent visitor after I had mighty Optical Illusions put on my Google homepage, and I love the site! After I saw the Canadian flag and American flag afterimages, I figured I’d try to do one myself. I just used a simple image creating/editing software that had an [...]


December 4, 2006 | 17 Comments

I have a rule to avoid placing photoshoped real-life illusions on this site. So many times I hear in my comments: “This illusion is Photoshoped“. I can assure you, that those of you who claim so, are 99% of the time – wrong. Rarely when I post photoshoped illusion, I state it clearly in the [...]