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May 18, 2008 | 30 Comments

Best Visual Illusion of The Year contest is something we’ve been covering for two years in a row. Top 10 submissions of 2008 can be found on the Contest homepage. While this illusion hasn’t made it close to top 3, its surely my favorite this year. Here is the explanation: how do we tell where [...]


May 16, 2008 | 39 Comments

I had to share this with you people! I know, I know – its not your traditional type of optical illusion, but this funny animation made me laugh my ass of. Still the 3d “stereoscopic” effect it produces, somehow qualifies it being posted to Animations Category and to this website. Anyone can recognize the two [...]


May 9, 2008 | 25 Comments

My excuse to all of you once again for not posting updates yesterday and day before. It’s been a rushy week I have to admit. The landlord kicked me and my girlfriend out of the apartment because of my inability to keep my mouth shut and just obey landlords crazy terms. What can I say, [...]


April 21, 2008 | 32 Comments

“The Contrast Asynchrony” optical illusion has been created by ShapiroLab enthusiasts. While the effect has been known for some time, variations of images, applications and games that give the best insight have been popping out regularly. This variation is surely my favorite. It is very easy to convince yourselves that the center disks are identical [...]


March 13, 2008 | 60 Comments

I found out today about this wavy collection, which consists of three different variations of our well known Floating Rice illusion. You have probably seen still images of this type before, and understand that they only appear to move (in a fashion of Rotating Snakes illusion), but the effect is non the less intriguing. To [...]


December 24, 2007 | 92 Comments

Just found this animation in my mailbox which was submitted by one of our fans – Brad Snyder. I’m not exactly sure how it functions, but the illusion should be similar with our famous Spinning Girl illusion. Apparently the gem we see below is rotating in only one direction. Because it is shallow, it gives [...]


December 22, 2007 | 32 Comments

Many interesting things happened to me this week, as well as to this website. I didn’t post new illusion yesterday and day before, but I assure you new illusion will again be posted every day. If you noticed, last week we passed 13 million unique visitors count (located at the bottom of this website). The [...]


December 13, 2007 | 48 Comments

Infinite OZ Optical Illusion

I just had to share this with you guys! Recently popular Zoomquilt illusion (we published here in the past) just got it’s advanced version. Tin Man is a show popular in USA if I’m right, and probably has something to do with Wizard of Oz cult movie. Someone created this awesome Infinite Zoom illusion of [...]