Color Adapting Category
(79 votes)
This is one of my childhood’s favorite visual illusions, one you could literally have spent hours playing with! Unfortunately, back then I wasn’t aware it was invented by C.E. Benham, and that it already had a name – Benham’s Disk. It was pretty popular back in the “old days”, as you could easily make your [...]
(134 votes)
Checkers optical illusion, one of the very first illusions to appear on this site, an old time goodie and my personal favorite is blessed with the regular habit to reappear out of nowhere. In whichever form it gets recycled, the effect stands strong and it always gets best reviews. Just check out today’s real-life video [...]
(58 votes)
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, [...]
(110 votes)
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… [...]
(87 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 [...]
(38 votes)
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 [...]
(34 votes)
What I love most about professor Kitaoka’s homegrown illusions, is their simplicity. Just look at the color-adapting sample he came up with all the way back in 2005. Even though the central square appears to be greenish, in reality it’s monochromatic. Meaning, the central square actually lacks color and its pattern is composed in gray-scale. [...]
(40 votes)
Here’s one you probably missed seeing in the wild! Check out what Oxy did as part of their “Disappearing Dots” campaign. Sure, the effect has been more than re-re-cycled on our site, but the idea behind it qualifies it as very smart optical illusion advertising! Old-timers will probably remember how Ariel did something similar back [...]
