People, words and objects hidden inside tree branches are undoubtedly one of the most popularly exploited illusion-motives on this site (up to date). Still, good illusions are always welcome. It doesn’t matter if they closely resemble some we’ve already seen before! For example, look what Deviant artist megaossa has managed to come up with! Most [...]

The tracheal tube illusion animation your about to see has been circulating the net lately. It is a simple relative sizes optical illusion, which goes in tandem with the following question: Which tracheal tube is longer? When I first saw it, two questions immediately captured my attention: A) What is “tracheal tube”? and B) Will [...]

Just in time for Christmas, I’ve dug up this marvelous painting by world-famous Octavio Ocampo. What at first seems as randomly scattered flock of doves, when observed closer makes a portrait of a beautiful female face. What you probably knew from before – Dove (domesticated Rock Pigeon, usually white in color) is a traditional Christian [...]

After seeing this grayish dartboard below, and being a regular fan of Might Optical Illusions blog, the question arises almost spontaneously – Do the light and dark regions, as indicated by the arrows, appear to be different? Which region is actually darker? Believe it or not, they are identical! Errrm…Well, at least they should be! [...]

This optical illusion picture was taken from the Little Giant Book of Optical Illusions by Keith Kay, where it was originally presented as a puzzling pattern containing hidden black and white cows. As easy it was for me to spot the one hidden cow in it (what’s with all them cow illusions?!), I was never [...]

According to Greek legend, a single look at Medusa was enough to turn any man into stone. That’s why Perseus had to carry a magical mirrored shield with him in order to defeat this legendary monster -it was the only way he could look at the Gorgon to find her whereabouts without turning into stone. [...]

I love funny comics. I love them even more when they use an optical illusion as part of the joke. One such perfect example is this psychiatric session comic, sent to me recently by my friend Marin. I’m pretty sure we’ve already featured the floating beans wallpaper at some point in time, but today’s example [...]

I always loved Rusty’s illusory paintings, mostly because they look so nice, and all of them carry special atmosphere surrounding them. Rusty’s works sometimes include hard to find hidden stuff, but most of the time the illusion is simple and not so hard to spot at all! Yet each of his works turns out beautiful! [...]