(8 votes)
November 13, 2008 | 33 Comments
I’m a big fan of science fiction – specially Isaac Asimov, the father of 3 laws of robotics. If you haven’t heard of him, he’s the guy that wrote “I, Robot” and “Bicentennial Man”. I’ve just finished reading his Foundation series, which received him a Hugo award. You’ve got to read this – best SF [...]
(11 votes)
September 4, 2008 | 32 Comments
I saw some M&M ads recently (probably even on my own website), and they reminded me of two things – first one was M&M Dark Movies search game we already mentioned before, and the other one was this photo I had on my disk for a while. Am not exactly sure what these little balls [...]
(4 votes)
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 [...]
(9 votes)
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 [...]
(5 votes)
March 5, 2008 | 23 Comments
Do you remember one of our first posts, and probably the most famous optical illusion of all time? Back then we called it “Colored Squares Illusion“, not knowing true history behind it. Investigating a little, I found out that it was originally called “Checkershadow Illusion” and that this famous optical illusions was created way back [...]
(6 votes)
February 9, 2008 | 35 Comments
Greg Grease Lehman, owner of a relatively famous tattoo shop, and our regular submitter just pointed out that our previously posted optical illusion called Color Tiles Illusion had another interesting aspect. This was his email: “Hello Vurdlak, I was looking at your COLOR TILE ILLUSION. I believe the illusion works this way. The center brown [...]
(2 votes)
November 30, 2007 | 65 Comments
I just created this optical illusion using online gif animation creator. I combined two photos from Akiyoshi Kitaoka – the master of optical illusions, and fused them into one perpetual animation. If you stare at the animation below, you will notice it automatically switches among two different photos each 10 seconds. Your assignment is to [...]
(10 votes)
October 29, 2007 | 114 Comments
Stare at this animation for 40 seconds, and concentrate on the black spot. After some time, the image will switch automatically (since it’s 2 frame animation), and show you black and white photo of a Pyramid in Egypt. Because of the special effect, originally invented by John Shadowsky, you will see a full color photo [...]
