Impolite Optical Illusions Gallery

(77 votes)

I receive over a dozen illusion submissions each day, and sometimes these submissions include somewhat “edgy” content. The problem is, they often work really well – sometimes even too well to be precise! Then it comes to me to decide how should I handle this situation most precociously. Even though I may endorse such optical [...]

Flying Carpet Optical Illusion

(100 votes)

What do Soviet spies, meditating Yogis, random “cool dude” and Johan Lorbeer have in common? Well, it appears each one of them has mastered the skill of levitation! Today another young lady has joined their league. It appears her speech required so much attention and concentration she didn’t even notice when she got her carpet [...]

Oleg Shuplyak’s Illusory Paintings

(67 votes)

As it has been confirmed over and over again, sometimes there is much more to the eye than you can initially perceive. This specially goes for the items that have been featured on Mighty Optical Illusions website. Today’s featured artist comes from Ukraine, and is widely recognized because of his illusory oil paintings. His name [...]

Imaginary Spiral Optical Illusion

(57 votes)

James Thomas Fields has created a very strong optical illusion effect, which gives the illusion of appearing and disappearing spiral lines. Just look at the pattern James originally shared via our FB channel. First time you look at it, there is a big chance you won’t go into details. Now if someone hid the picture [...]

Sideway Face Optical Illusion

(71 votes)

Here’s a disturbing photo-manipulation that has been circulating Facebook for some time now. I couldn’t ignore all the requests for it to be featured no more. It’s like more than a dozen of you have submitted it to me over the last week. At first I wasn’t that impressed, but as I kept re-checking the [...]

Impossible Atomium Sculpture

(76 votes)

Before I begin with today’s optical illusion, let me ask you something that has been over my head for the last couple of days. Those of you familiar with our Chrome plugin (one that features daily optical illusions in your Chrome browser), might actually provide me with needed information. It seems as of recently (for [...]

Troxler’s Fading Optical Illusion

(59 votes)

Here and then I feel like having a burden of “responsibility”, where I remind myself it would be irresponsible if I didn’t al least provide occasional education, specially when there are so many young-ones among us, whose minds are still forming and thirsty for knowledge! Before I explain the science behind this interesting phenomenon called [...]

Then and Now Photo-Fusion

(61 votes)

We’ve all taken trips down memory lane, but rarely does that involve an actual lane and memories of other people like the University of Florida’s UF, Then & Now project. The concept involves using photographs of people taken from throughout the last 100 years, by lining them up with the place they were taken and [...]