Impossible Doors

(10 votes)

Another Impossible Object for you! Do you notice anything strange with these doors? I would like to meet a guy or a gal that is capable of constructing these doors! If you’re an expert, then let me give you a harder assignment: after solving impossible safe doors, try constructing artifact from hell! If this is [...]

Surreal Paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

(5 votes)

This two amazing paintings were submitted by my girlfriend few minutes ago :) It made me real happy to see her interest in my optical illusions project. Both of these were painted by Pieter Brueghel (1525-69), usually known as Pieter Brueghel the Elder. He used that addition to his name, to distinguish himself from his [...]

Crooked Chair

(8 votes)

Our visitor Rona submitted this. If you take a second, and look at the chair picture, you will understand what she ment: “I was looking on google for chairs for my project, and found this. The chair looks like you’re looking at it from the front (which you are) but if you look closer, it [...]

Impossible Crate Box Illusion

(13 votes)

What you see here is 3D animated object of impossible crate. Even though it is a computer created picture, it still gives you idea how impossible objects are possible in real life. Don’t believe me? Thats, fine. Jump inside this article to see the same object from different angle. Does this help? I found these [...]

Victor Vasarely’s Hungary Installation

(3 votes)

What you see here is an outdoor Vasarely artwork at the museum in Pécs. Victor Vasarely was born on 9th April 1906 in Pécs. He was a French Hungarian-born artist often acclaimed as the father of Op-art. I’m not sure if this art below is convex or concave. It can be seen in both ways. [...]

Impossible M.C Escher Houses

(7 votes)

Darkstar sent me this fabulous Google Earth Houses. You can see both photos inside this article, along with Google Maps aerial photo of the location. Anyone lives near them? Darkstar wrote: “Hi, I just found these impossible houses through Google Sightseeing. They look like something M.C. Escher would do.” Here’s a .kml file. We had [...]

3D Figures Fictives

(8 votes)

Today’s illusion is an interesting composition along an old favorite theme. The fact that it takes things into three dimensions, and produces the ghostly cube effect using only shading changes which do do not disrupt the underlying structure of the blocks in the composition, are what I believe gives it the edge. This work was [...]

Dave Barlow’s Model of Ascending

(8 votes)

Dave Barlow created this Escher model of Ascending and Descending from plaster blocks. It is amazing replica of impossible world, where the steps on top of the castle seem to go up and up infinately. In some way, this can be undestood as punishment Sisyphus bared.