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September 18, 2009 | 7 Comments

Same sculpture seen from two different angles

Guido Moretti is an Italian artist captivated by the beauty of analytical geometry. At the Faculty of Engineering at Padua University he created his first sculptures in plasticine.  Little later, his creativity knew no bounds – from stratification he moved on to rotations followed by orthogonal intersections. He created a set of sculptures of orthogonal [...]


September 15, 2009 | 10 Comments

Open this image in full-size. Are those circles, or continuous spiral?

Let us revisit the Seemingly Bent category. We hadn’t had unique optical illusion that belongs to this section, in quite a while. To remind you once again, Seemingly Bent category consists of illusions that give you impression you are seeing slanted lines and shapes, while in fact they are perfectly straight (or mutually parallel). Most [...]


September 12, 2009 | 30 Comments

Chicago Bulls logo, when turned upside down pictures a robot reading a bible

Roger Deschner pointed me to something interesting. Its probably not the most significant discovery, but fun to spot anyway. This is what Roger writes: “This has suddenly become big. Turn the logo for the Chicago Bulls pro basketball team upside down, and it’s a robot sitting on a park bench reading a bible.” Why are [...]


September 4, 2009 | 35 Comments

Is this Till Eulenspiegel wearing a jester hat, or something entirely different?

I had this one on my computer for couple of months, until I finally decided to share it with you. I know I’m about to be flamed, but in my mind the optical illusion present puts “decency question” in second plan. Hope I haven’t offended anyone. Anyway, what you see below is a somewhat naughty [...]


August 28, 2009 | 53 Comments

Can you spot where the ships become arches, and vice-versa?

This one’s classic. Still, it can be very amusing trying to spot where the ships start changing into aqueduct and sky. Rob Gonsalves is the author behind this piece of art, but what I still can’t determine – is Rob the author of “Camels in the Night” as well? Both of these illusions look too [...]


August 13, 2009 | 101 Comments

There is something extremely sexy about this lamp! What if the pic was turned upside down...?

I’m still not hundred percent certain why I kept this optical illusion private, but somehow I never gained enough courage to share it with you – my audience. Probably because the topic was somehow edgy, and balanced between SFW (safe for work) and NSFW. Anyhow, here it goes… The picture you see below circled the [...]


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August 5, 2009 | 43 Comments

Everything can be seen in two ways, but what about mustaches?

If there is any particular topic I receive record number of submissions for (more than cloud formations) – it would be “Jesus”. It appears people see Jesus everywhere. But if you think our savior returned by burning himself into your toast, that doesn’t automatically qualify it as regular optical illusion.
Still, some of these submissions DO [...]


July 28, 2009 | 88 Comments

Chinese Sign Optical Illusion

As I have promised yesterday, new day – new optical illusion! Can you read this Chinese sign on your left? Sure you can! A little self-confidence and some flexing of the muscles in your neck, should do the trick. No additional hints further!
I took some time and added “Symbol” tag to some previous optical illusions [...]


July 25, 2009 | 144 Comments

car house illusion

I had some friends visit me over the last few days, so most of the time I was showing them around the island, and making sure Korcula stays in good memory to them. Unfortunately you were the ones that were left behind, having no benefit from this. I hope I will make things up by [...]


July 23, 2009 | 27 Comments

Cloudface in Details

You would be surprised how often do I get different types of cloud formations submitted, to be posted on this site as optical illusions. Most of the time (almost ALL OF THE TIME) the illusion is not obvious, and would take closing both eyes on them to decide publishing those photos. But there are some [...]