Candle in The Mirror Illusion

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Here's an interesting optical illusion submitted by Jaime Heravi. It looks as if there were two candles and two candle holders in front of the mirror. Wrong! First I thought it was bad illusion, since I didn't read carefully what Jaime wrote, but after realizing there is only one candle in this photo, I had a nice surprise. Do you know how it was done?

We have similar, yet opposite situation in this article. Try figuring out both of the illusions, and where the flame disappeared in second one, and send in your comments. Thanks Jaime for another cool illusion for our site. I have trouble finding quality stuff all of you will like, but I have few more audio illusions waiting to be posted. I realized you like those very much!

Ohh, and about that very important exam I told you about before, I passed it! It is the hardest exam on my university, and when you pass it, you can consider your self Dr. Science. The exam is called Electronics 2, on my faculty Electrotechnics and Computer engineering.





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  1. Anonymous Homfrog 

    There are two candle holders but only one candle. Like, The candle holder on the left in real life is empty. The picture is aligned so that the reflection of the real candle is aligned onto the emoty candle holder. See the little reflection of the empty candle holder under the fanlamp? That's the empty one on the left.

    Or it could be winged piggies!

  2. Blogger Christopher 

    cool

  3. Anonymous Anonymous 

    one lit candle in candle holder. one empty candle holder. picture taken from angle where reflection of first candle appears to be in empty candle holder. very cool illusion.

  4. Anonymous Anonymous 

    You have to sort of think abstractly on this one. In a way, it's fun.

  5. Anonymous Shauzia 

    No offense, but its a little olb,boring, and kinda predictable... but, no offense or anything...

  6. Anonymous alex_can_fly 

    It looks more like there are two candles in front of the mirror, and they dont have reflections...like ghosts. or vampires. or me. :p

  7. Anonymous alex_can_fly 

    PS well done with your exam too

  8. Anonymous WOOTCAKES 

    Its kainda obveous, I saw what was happening from the google widget. But I like it, its cool

  9. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Its cool, I like it :D

  10. Anonymous Anonymous 

    anonymous post number 3 is right all the candles exept the 1 all the way to the left is a reflection

  11. Anonymous Anonymous 

    its done with smoke and mirrors.

  12. Anonymous Anonymous 

    This one is really done with smoke and mirrors. You can also see the reflection of the empty candle holder in the mirror.

  13. Anonymous Anonymous 

    its really clever the way the positioning is placed

  14. Anonymous Anonymous 

    its so cool. Also its really clever the way the person positioned the camera.

  15. Anonymous ...dana! 

    Yeah I've done something like this before. Good stuff.

  16. Anonymous Not At School Anymore 

    Congrats on the Exam
    Cool illusion i made one of those once before it was pretty awesome!

  17. Anonymous Anonymous 

    that is cool yet sucks

  18. Anonymous AK 

    no offense, but i find it boring. Or maybe its just because im waiting again for something as amazing as that audio illusion lol

  19. Anonymous Elisabetta 

    Nice picture :)
    Congratulations on your exam, Vurdiak! :)

  20. Anonymous Guardochik 

    The empty candle stick can be seen in the lower right hand corner of the mirror

  21. Blogger Schaianne 

    Very ingenious! I like that ... very simple but effective!




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