Vurdlak

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Nobel laureate wannabe, holly-declared soon to be, Vurdlak is an entrepreneur by heart and engineer by profession. Obsessed with details and being in control, blessed with natural taste and diverse skills, makes Vurdlak a perfect candidate to run world's best optical illusions blog.

Saxophone Player or A Face?

(26 votes)

Since this “Jazz Musician” optical illusion was one of the earliest attempts of me trying to blog, where since then it has long been buried deep inside our web archives, it made me very happy when I found out it wasn’t forgotten and was used as a print for a very popular T-Shirt brand! Now [...]

Tombstone Face Follows You Around

(25 votes)

Here’s an interesting, yet spooky tombstone my brother stumbled upon while visiting Paris. Based on famous “Hollow Face” illusion (examples can be found here and here), face of the deceased doctor follows you around, as you’re passing-by his final resting place. I can’t imagine how one would react if he encountered this during the night, [...]

Blivet (Devil’s Fork) Illusion Collection

(17 votes)

A blivet, also known as a poiuyt or even more often refereed to as “The Devil’s Fork” is an undecipherable figure, an optical illusion and an impossible object we’ve encountered many times here on Mighty Optical Illusions blog – yet I feel we’ve never given it proper attention, explained how it works nor talked how [...]

Recycled Rasta Optical Illusion

(30 votes)

First glance on the “Recycled Rasta-man” may give you an impression you’re looking at some bizarre oil painting, but when you look closer, you’ll soon realise it’s actually an anamorphic 3D sculpture made of recycled materials – The massive portrait of actor Sotigui Kouyaté. This portrait was made by French artist Bernard Pras, and was [...]

Ikemath’s Impossible Gallery vol.2

(17 votes)

Based on the impact our last Impossible Objects Gallery by Ikemath received, it seems you just can’t get enough of these! Pardon me, if this doesn’t sound right – but it turned out our last gallery went viral in record time! Fortunately, there’s more where this came from. Check the following gallery filled with beautiful, [...]

VIDEO: Spider-Tank Building Illusion

(38 votes)

Spiders may not be the most popular creatures – theres even a phobia named after them, but German art student Friedrich von Schoor appears to have no problem with them! As part of a project at his art college, Friedrich used a video of some ordinary spiders trapped inside a small tank to create a [...]

Floating Spheres Optical Illusion

(30 votes)

Look what just flew-in, straight to my mailbox! For those of you unaware, you are more then welcome to send us some interesting illusion-related content using our submit email address which can be found in the footer of this site. Inspired by Akiyoshi’s illusory patterns, Mark Grenier achieved extremely beautiful floating effect with his rotating [...]

“Assumptions” by Richard Wiseman

(35 votes)

Richard Wiseman’s viral clip Assumptions has been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube, which immediately propelled him into #celebrity status. As a result of this success, Richard has been invited to create online content for various projects, including Derren Brown’s The Events, the launch of The Mentalist, and Transport For London’s campaign to [...]