Afterimages Category

During my recent stay in London (which was an amazing experience btw.) one thing I couldn’t oversee was the high concentration of wealth and luxury everywhere I looked. But when I thought about it for a moment, I realised that when you have so many mega-rich individuals living there, one has to find a way [...]

I don’t know much about Beyonce’s controversial pregnancy, but what I know for sure is that she makes one hell of an optical illusion! What I want you to do (once again) is to stare at this negative photo of her for a minute or so. Don’t forget to fixate the dots on her nose [...]

A shuriken, our word of the day, is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was generally used for throwing, and sometimes stabbing or slashing. They are sharpened hand-held blades made from a variety of everyday items such as nails, knives, washers, and other flat plates of metal. When translated from Japanese, it literally means “sword [...]

There are some optical illusions that simply become viral over night, and jump at you from all across the web in matter of days. Most of the time they contain “juicy” NSFW content, which I’m not in the position to share via our homepage, as we wouldn’t want to spoil them youngsters visiting this site [...]

As we concluded last Monday, occasionally “repeating” somewhat similar illusions shouldn’t be a problem (at least this is what the majority has decided). In practice, the only similarity between today’s animated gif and previous submissions of this type lyes in the way they work. I remember like it was yesterday when John Shadowski first introduced [...]

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Remember when South Park was in its very beginning? I remember there was this crazy dude character named Towelie, who was in fact a speaking towel whose only interest was getting stoned (?!). Hilarious! If my memory serves me well, he was a result of a terrible army experiment gone wrong. Dunno why this animation [...]

Peter Tse from Dartmouth College (USA) has re-invented the classic afterimage optical illusion. If you haven’t encountered afterimage illusions before, I strongly recommend visiting #Afterimages category before reading through rest of this entry. So why is this illusion different? By using it, you can reveal if your brain predominantly sees horizontal or vertical lines! To [...]

I still owe you an explanation about “what represents a biggest problem for me updating this site, while being on the road”. I started the trivia on August the 10th, and promised to explain myself the day after hearing your thoughts. Unfortunately, we had that malware incident in the meantime, and battling against the bad [...]