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In years of doing this what I do, I have come across various optical illusion patterns whose effect often can’t easily be explained. Still, them patterns provide very intensive results, most often having something to do with illusory movement of some sort. I have also learned how various patterns can cause nausea and make you [...]
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Color-adapting category is one of the rare sections on this site that almost exclusively contains true optical illusions. The effect we showcase most often, usually makes two parts of a picture seem as if they were of a different color, even though they’re actually identical. This can often be proved by removing the contextual background, [...]
(41 votes)
Regular readers may remember that I was planning a trip Universal Studios shortly after posting my recent forced perspective article. While these pictures from a previous trip to the park may not technically involve forced perspective, it still was fun to be able to take interactive photos with the cartoon characters from The Simpsons. My [...]
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After 9 years of struggle, finally I have graduated my University and obtained master’s degree in telecommunications. It feels like someone lifted a giant boulder off of my chest. Yet somehow I already miss this boulder. It made me feel I belong to something, I could’ve identified myself as being part of a student body… [...]
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If you are following our Facebook channel by now you probably noticed there is this particular fellow who regularly comes up with some incredible optical illusion pictures. Not only that, but all of the illusions he submits are of his own creation! The person in talk here is Anh Pham, and fortunately for us he [...]
(46 votes)
Warning: If the following illusion makes you nauseous or dizzy, please scroll down to the next post. The Purple Nurple, as this illusion is called, is what’s known as an anomalous motion illusion (sometimes grouped in with animation optical illusions), whereby a series of shapes and colors creates the appearance of movement while staying completely [...]
(67 votes)
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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Yesterday we talked about 7th annual Best Illusion of The Year contest. We covered the winner and one of the finalists, and I think it wouldn’t be fair if we moved on without mentioning one particular interactive animation. More specifically – the illusion that won the second prize. Created by Erica Dixon, Arthur Shapiro and [...]
