Happy Kettles

(30 votes)

This is one of the funniest (and coolest!) optical illusions I have seen recently! If you look at this photo more closely, you will notice that the eyes and happy mouth aren’t drawn on these two kettles, instead it’s the perfect example of anamorphism. It’s hard to believe, that the photo was taken from the [...]

Skull Ambasadors

(5 votes)

Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist who painted in a Northern Renaissance style, and was best known for his numerous portraits. The one you see below is titled “Ambassadors”, and was already posted on Mighty Optical Illusions. You can check my older post. I got many questions from you, my loyal visitors to [...]

Anamorphosis Illusions

(3 votes)

What you see in this image below is 1535 wood carving by Erhard Schön. The picture appears to be scribbled black ink, but features the condensed images (from left to right) of Charles V, Ferdinand I Pope Paul III, and Francis I. It can be expanded (about 6:1 horizontally) on a computer and rotated 90° [...]

Walt Disney Anamorphic Cylinder Illusion

(9 votes)

This one is awesome! Here’s how it works: basically an artist painted Disney-style painting, in a way, when a cylinder mirror is put in the center of it, it would show anamorphic reflection of a Walt Disney’s portrait. I’m sure everyone heard about this legend cartoon maker. If you didn’t quite understand this, Walt Disney [...]

Anamorphic Tea Cups Illusion

(4 votes)

Remember my previous (and apparently succesfull) post on Anamorphism, called “Cylinder Mirrors”? Well since it received so huge response, I decided to provide you with some more cool examples of anamorphic images shown through Tea Cups! Jump inside this article for more pictures! Amazing and cool stuff to have in your breakfast inventory. He he…

Cylinder Mirror Optical Illusion

(14 votes)

These people figured out some way of doing an incredibly distorted drawing so that when they stood a reflective cylinder (cylinder mirror) in the middle of it, the reflection showed the picture as intended. One of these is of Mission San Rafael, the exact view you’d see if I tilted my Nikon digital camera up [...]

Jean de Dinterville Skull Illusion

(6 votes)

Jean de Dinterville was a French nobleman who came to England as an ambassador in the 1530. He was one of the two people shown in a famous painting by Holbein – he is the figure on the left. This picture is famous partly for the strange object at the bottom of the picture – [...]