Ascending Ball Staircase Illusion

(4 votes)

Close friend of mine gave me this animation. It’s quite obvious the author was heavily influenced by M.C. Escher, more specifically by his Ascending Staircase Castle and Waterfall Illusion. We all know in real world, this could never work. The same way forever-dream of scientists, Perpetuum Mobile can’t exist due to existing rules of physics. [...]

Spinning Circles

(6 votes)

With all that offers like “Free Macbook” or free iPod, one thing is for sure, and not only for US visitors – you get daily free optical illusions on this site, wherever you live :) The newest one was on my hard disk for such a long time, that I forgot who created and submitted [...]

Come In & Go Away Doormat Illusion

(4 votes)

Matthias Draxler found this cool rug and forwarded it to us, at Mighty Illusions. You won’t have much trouble spotting the illusion in it, since anything else than strange ambigram is out of the question. Ambigrams are usually words that hold multiple meanings, depending on how you look at them. Often you have to flip [...]

Rotating Rays Illusion

(1 votes)

Just came home from cinema. I took a night out with my girlfriend and we watched Ghost Rider, starring Nicholas Cage. It’s a nice flick. I really like seeing those Marvel comic heroes on big screen. It’s just that I never heard of this super hero with flaming skull. Hehe, you should see it, maybe [...]

Alien Eggs Illusion

(2 votes)

Is it only me, or do these eggs spin like crazy! Man, I believe this one was created by optical illusion master, Akiyoshi Kitaoka but can’t tell for sure. There are over hundred variations of this illusion, many of them already posted on Mighty Illusions in the past, but they just keep amazing me. Have [...]

Bouncing Tomato Illusion

(4 votes)

Hey guys and gals, see what I found while browsing the web! Do you like tomatoes? If you do, you’ll adore this bouncing tomato in the picture below. While starring at it, I experienced some great effects, but when I observed the picture from really close, I couldn’t find any visible border! How does it [...]

Flying Skulls Illusion

(7 votes)

As I learned from the original post, this is the album cover of the band called “Tool”. You can find the original post here. Marco from Italy got inspired by our Flying City, and created animation of his own, using interesting art he found on this website. “I saw just now the flying city and [...]

Flying Through City Stereogram

(6 votes)

Frans-Jan Wind sends beautiful, yet scary illusion of a city. Wait for the image to load (or open it full size), and you will feel like flying through a city! Just like Christopher Walken did in his very own optical illusion. Be sure to check Scary Spider as well, but I warn you, those of [...]

Cubes Optical Illusion

(2 votes)

According to some people, there should be some kind of illusionary movement present in this sphere below. Well, maybe I have paranoia, but still it didn’t work with me. Something other caught my intention; aside that it’s really nice image, can you see those little cubes inside and around the sphere? If you observer them [...]

Floating Rice

(14 votes)

Unbelievable! Check this out – open the picture below in full size, and you won’t believe that the image is actually still jpg! I posted many “animation” illusions to this site, but this one has the strongest effect I have ever seen! This optical illusion is one of the newest creations of Akiyoshi Kitaoka, master [...]