(29 votes)
December 19, 2009 | 22 Comments
From the creators of recently popular Brown Diamonds and Shades of Blue Optical Illusion, now comes this interesting video posted below. Exactly two hundred tiny squares of paper were cut by hand, and then strategically placed on chessboard pattern to create the visual effect shown. Then an unexpected and creative method of [...]
(12 votes)
December 3, 2009 | 35 Comments
I’d like to thank you for your replies, yesterday. I learned some new things, but also got an affirmation to some of my previous beliefs. What I’m even more proud of, is that our little community has finally matured enough to lead a decent and polite conversation – even when your views differ. If I’m [...]
(19 votes)
October 10, 2009 | 23 Comments
Bare with me, I know some of the content seems to repeat itself, but you have to understand we are constantly receiving waves of new (to become regular) visitors that might have missed our archives. Still, I always give my best effort not to repeat myself. Even though some of the illusions may look exactly [...]
(9 votes)
September 15, 2009 | 10 Comments
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 [...]
(19 votes)
August 4, 2009 | 26 Comments
There’s a new optical illusion in town, and its name is “Bourdon Illusion“. The Bourdon illusion is the apparent “bentness” of the straight edge of a figure consisting of two elongated triangles arranged apex to apex.
Like you see in the image on your left, the upper side of the left-lower triangle is actually aligned with [...]
(17 votes)
May 14, 2009 | 30 Comments
Ever wondered why its so tricky to hit the curve ball in baseball? Well, this example might just show you why. Big news is that three best visual illusions in the world were chosen last weekend, at a gathering of neuroscientists and psychologists at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Florida. We’ve been [...]
(9 votes)
April 21, 2009 | 15 Comments
As I already explained, this week will be a killer. Not from the illusion point of view, but me studying my ass of. Due to this situation, I have composed this post yesterday and set it to auto-publish itself today. How cool is that? About those fish oil pills that are supposed to improve your [...]
(4 votes)
April 20, 2009 | 26 Comments
As I was just about to give up, I found this interesting optical illusion to share with you today. There is nothing complex about this Wonky-Tonk building. It has it’s roof, doors and four windows. There are also two of the tenants in front of it… but wait! Why are the tenants so upset? Apparently [...]
