Escape from The Crimson Room!

(13 votes)

If you came to this article via pc widget or mac widget, you probably only saw the image on the left. While it is an awesome illusion, it has been covered on this site many times. In short, the room is constructed in special way, so that when you walk across it, it appears you [...]

Disappearing Yellow Dots Illusion

(10 votes)

I had this illusion on my laptop for quite some time now. It looks very simple, but worked for me only yesterday. If you concentrate hard enough on the image center, after a while all three yellow dots will disappear! Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself! It may take some time and concentration, but [...]

Floating Bill Gates Optical Illusion

(4 votes)

Hurray, I’m back from my summer vacation! Well, probably I’m not the happiest person, since I really had some awesome times this summer. Many, many exciting things happened to my personal life in short period of time. I had some bad moments, and some lovely ones. Altogether I’m still under influence of Mediterranean atmosphere, so [...]

Seeing a New Color Illusion

(5 votes)

Sometimes we need few old school illusions to lift the spirit of our community. I noticed some of you like real-life ones better, and some acknowledge only hard core old school illusions as true ones. Which ones should I concentrate more on? Since I’m not really sure which ones you prefer, I’m posting them mixed. [...]

Spinning Sihouette Optical Illusion

(33 votes)

This animation was on my laptop for quite some time. I had it for almost a year. Today anonymous user submitted me this gif version, and when I opened it, only then I realized how great this illusion actually is. If you look at the spinning girl’s silhouette below, you will think it is spinning [...]

Spinning Fan Illusion

(5 votes)

Dave Beeson spotted this funny gag on the the BBC homepage. I noticed that many good illusions come from people spotting them on BBC. Like for example Marina Apollonio’s installation and BBC’s optical illusions test. After you browsed those, you should try scrolling this page up and down, and you will see interesting effect that [...]

Floating Woman Illusion

(3 votes)

Danilo Rodriguez The III. sent this true optical illusion. He said: “Hey I have your site as a little widget thingy on my google/igoogle homepage, and so I figured I might as well send you this email, that was FWD’ed to me with a couple of good illusions“. There were few more in his email, [...]

Not a Woman Body Illusion

(4 votes)

Jacek Szydłowski, the guy who sent that awesome Google Earth anomaly, also posted this animation few days ago. He said: “Hello. Another illusion I found on net. This time you will see something that looks like women body but it is NOT!! See for yourself.” Just look at the image on the left, it [...]

Question & Simple Rotating Cog

(3 votes)

Hey everyone, I just drank my coffee as announced in previous post. The reason for such quick update is because I had little trouble viewing newest illusion in my Optical Illusion of The Day Yahoo Widget. Do you see this one in Google Homepage, Mac Dashboard widget or Yahoo Widget? Please comment, because I am [...]

Rainbow Illusion

(4 votes)

To motivate you a little, heres 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 [...]