Weird Building Optical Illusion

(5 votes)

The architect who designed this crazy building used a well known optical illusion effect in his blueprints. This effect was first noticed on a Cafe Wall somewhere in England, and stayed popular ever since. Basically the lines and blocks arranged in this special way, give you impression that the lines (in this case red ones) [...]

Best Illusions of 2007 Contest Winners

(7 votes)

Can’t believe I almost missed covering this story! Reminded by Pablo Speciale, here are some best voted illusions for 2007. The contest is held every year by neauralcorrelate.com, and each year they choose top ten illusions from thousands of submissions. If you remember I covered 2006 winner here. I just believe winner illusion would be [...]

Unbelievable Photoshop CS3 Illusion

(10 votes)

You aren’t gonna believe this one, it has to be one of the best illusions this year. It took me some time to understand what Pablo Salto-Weis Azevedo (the person who sent this to me) tried to explain. Well actually, immediately I saw that the church in the second picture looks different, but then I [...]

Bent Lines School Example Illusion

(4 votes)

This is a well known variation of bent lines illusion. There are hundreds of them, but this may as well be a representative specimen. No matter how much of them I see, I still haven’t managed to solve the mystery behind them. As we see, the little black and white squares give the impression of [...]

Crossing Circles Illusion

(11 votes)

Is it only me, or do these circles composed of black and white squares, seem to cross-over? You be the judge! It worked for me… Amazing. Similar one here. I’m still not sure how these illusions work, and boy, we had many of them here in the past. Another version would be the one, where [...]

Warped Checkered Squares

(4 votes)

Adrian Peña sent me bunch of illusions recently, but most of them already appeared on the site in the past. Still, one of them I found really great. I never saw it before, but had similar version of it. It’s called Warped Squares, and gives you opinion that all the horizontal and vertical lines in [...]

Caffe Wall Illusion

(3 votes)

Now you can see original Caffe Wall in color! Remember our previous posts, Original Caffe Wall and Russian Caffe? Well these photos were taken at different location, and still show you the original “Bent Lines Illusion”. What’s the illusion here, you might ask? As you see the lines appear bent, while in fact they are [...]

Strange Toillet Design

(11 votes)

What a cool Toilet! One of our regular visitors, Maarten Terpstra took these photos in his hometown, and decide to share them with us. Here’s what he wrote: “Hey Hey, I’m a big fan. I use the widget every day to check for new illusion. Here’s mine. Here in the Netherlands is this beach restaurant [...]