Benham’s Disk Optical Illusion

(75 votes)

This is one of my childhood’s favorite visual illusions, one you could literally have spent hours playing with! Unfortunately, back then I wasn’t aware it was invented by C.E. Benham, and that it already had a name – Benham’s Disk. It was pretty popular back in the “old days”, as you could easily make your [...]

Dancing Stars Optical Illusion

(72 votes)

Let’s see what we have prepared for you today… User called Yep submitted an interesting picture in somewhat unconventional way – Using our recently added function (where you can now attach photos inside your comments) Yep proposed we publish “Dancing Stars” in one of our next updates. I’m not 100% sure if we had this [...]

Skull Illusions by Tom French

(81 votes)

Each time I post another item to our skull illusions section, I pledge myself it was the last time I did so (as they usually work in pretty much the same way). I fear if I over-bomb you with similar illusions you’ll soon grow tired of them, thus stop visiting this monumental website. However, running [...]

Illusion Carpet in The Game Store

(73 votes)

This optical illusion carpet, spotted in a Paris video game store provides an illusion of vortex floor. The effect is achieved by printing bent lines in according manner, just like what we have already seen in Apple exec’s garden. Not only does this carpet messes with your mind, it might also help you actually to [...]

The Hand Art of Guido Daniele

(119 votes)

I see some you have asked whether I have resigned from maintaining this blog, and whether Jill has been assigned as new editor in chief. Whether you like it or not I’m here to stay! It’s just that I was too busy over the last few days organizing a sport tournament, so didn’t have much [...]

Coin Makes Big Things Look Small

(62 votes)

We’ve talked about tilt shift images before, where the photographer uses selective focus and a titled shot angle  or special lens to make a regular-sized image appear to be only a model. But the Big Money Project takes the tilt shift process a step further by placing ordinary objects beside a giant coin that immediately [...]

The Ouchi Illusion Revamped

(38 votes)

The Ouchi illusion is an illusion named after its inventor, Japanese artist Hajime Ouchi. It works in a way where the central disk seems to float above the checkered background when moving the eyes around while viewing the figure. Scrolling the image horizontally or vertically provides a much stronger effect. In this version titled “Ouchi [...]