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.

“Assumptions” by Richard Wiseman

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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 [...]

Jens Birch’s Funny Looking Bird(s)

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While preparing new stuff for you to see this week, I came across this beautiful and funny-looking photograph made by Jens Birch. At first I intended to incorporate birds species into the caption, but then I realised I don’t have a clue if this photo involves ducks, swans or something else. Bird-spotters among you will have [...]

Ikemath’s Impossible Gallery

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Old time viewers will immediately recognise Ikemath’s work in this #impossible objects gallery below. Randomly placed wristwatch serves as a reminder what we are seeing is real, and is probably used as some sort of signature representing Ikemath’s style. Check the gallery below, and see if you can decode how these objects came to be. [...]

VIDEO: Missing Cubes Optical Illusion

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If you haven’t had the chance to see this “Missing/Extra Cube” video that went viral recently, here’s your chance to see it now! Norberto Jansenson has re-thinked famous missing-piece illusion (original version included triangle), and then presented it in much more appealing and effective manner. The idea behind this toy is somewhat identical to “Preposterous [...]

“Fathers and Sons” Illusion Poster

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Trapping viewer’s attention, which is the main goal in product advertising is more often than not incredibly difficult task to achieve. While already sky-high, user ad-blindness is rapidly increasing, with no signs on horizon showing this will change anytime soon. However, one method stands tall, promising delivery – still being able to trap attention. Messages [...]

Once in A Lifetime Illusion

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A butterfly perches in the eye socket of a human skull, creating the illusion of an eye. This once in a lifetime photograph made by #Marko Popadic, titled “Oko” (meaning eye in Croatian) shows a perfectly posed butterfly sitting in the eye socket of a human skull. The big spot on the butterfly’s wing creates [...]

Trippy Mandala Optical Illusion

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Here’s something that started popping out all over the net lately. Below optical illusion animation takes some time to fully load (2MB #gif file), but when it does, all you have to do is blink fast and repeatedly – and when you do, beautiful mandalas shall emerge! If you never heard of it, Mandala is [...]

Another Pixel Challenge

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If you remember, few years back we had a Pixel Challenge titled “Our Brain is Truly Wonderful“, where our remarkable ability to recognize faces was showcased. Today I bring you more blocky faces and paintings to tease your optic nerve with. Your brain’s power to decipher these ultra-low resolution images may seem miraculous at first, [...]