Impossible Doors

(10 votes)

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 [...]

Reveresed Face Illusion

(4 votes)

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 [...]

Flying Man Illusion

(5 votes)

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. [...]

Floating Rice

(17 votes)

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 [...]

Top 10 Optical Illusion Christmas Gifts

(6 votes)

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 [...]

Lightning McQueen

(3 votes)

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 [...]

Union Jack Afterimage

(8 votes)

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 [...]

Christopher Gilbert Artwork

(21 votes)

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 [...]