Ernesto “Che” Guevara Afterimage

(5 votes)

Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, guerrilla leader and whole bunch of other stuff hard to pronounce. After his death, his stylized image became an ubiquitous counter-cultural symbol worldwide, which you probably saw on some “rebellious” teenager’s T-shirt. There is a big chance you even have some [...]

“Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin – Afterimage Illusion

(14 votes)

One of the most popular Australians that ever lived – Steve Irwin, also known as “Crocodile Hunter” is main actor of today’s optical illusion. I have to admit, Irwin wasn’t my dearest documentary actor before the tragic event took place. Those of you who don’t know the story, Steve died in 2006 after his chest [...]

Rick Roll Afterimage Optical Illusion

(5 votes)

I found this top quality Afterimage illusion and started to write an article about it. The image was titled “rick roll illusion”, so I titled the article accordingly. The afterimage looked like the negative image of Bob Dylan, but Rick Roll is someone I never heard of. So I did a little research and was [...]

Black and White Pyramid in Color!

(10 votes)

Stare at this animation for 40 seconds, and concentrate on the black spot. After some time, the image will switch automatically (since it’s 2 frame animation), and show you black and white photo of a Pyramid in Egypt. Because of the special effect, originally invented by John Shadowsky, you will see a full color photo [...]

Another 9/11 Optical Illusion

(9 votes)

This “political cartoon” you see below is actually an optical illusion based on an old optical trick that some of you may have seen before (remember original Jesus Illusion). The primary image is the Twin Towers during the attacks six years go, on September 11th, 2001. But as you see, in the sky over [...]

Widget Problem Solved!

(4 votes)

Update 27.4. 2007 – Mac Widget 4.0 is now released, so be sure to re-download it. Also I corrected the illusions below, it should work now. Open it full size to see the effect.
Thanks to Michael Tughan, both Yahoo and Mac Widgets are fixed. It was a minor glitch, that occurred due to blogger changing [...]

Rainbow Illusion

(10 votes)

To motivate you a little, here’s one outstanding illusion for ya. It is called Rainbow Illusion, and effect it produces is awesome. Just like that Spanish Castle illusion John Shadowsky invented. It is quite simple – all you have to do is stare at the center dot of the yellowish image below. After few seconds [...]

India and Italy Flag Afterimage

(7 votes)

Long time ago those afterimages were quite popular. To my best knowledge, it all started with the original Jesus afterimage. Then another cool example I stumbled upon was USA Flag afterimage. I asked my readers to submit afterimage flags of their own countries, and received much responses back then. You can find all sorts of [...]