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October 14, 2006 | 19 Comments

These Doors may look punched, bulged, convex or concave to you, but the illusion here is that they are perfectly flat! It’s magnificent how the artist painted them! I really had hard time beleiving what I’m seeing here. No bluges, just flat doors! If you like this type of illusions check Seemingly Bent Category and [...]




(2 votes)
October 9, 2006 | 25 Comments

Here is another classic optical illusion I received lately. You get the opinnion there is line grid presented on top of the purple diamonds. Check again! Lines you see are only illusion your mind made you perceive. It’s simple, yet effective. There are more cool ones in “Bent Lines Category“!




(11 votes)
October 1, 2006 | 10 Comments

The Ehrenstein illusion is an optical illusion studied by the German psychologist Walter Ehrenstein. The sides of a square placed inside a pattern of concentric circles take an apparent curved shape, however the square is perfect with perfectly straight sides. There are few simmilar illusion inside this post, and sometimes the name “Ehrenstein” is associated [...]




(9 votes)
August 31, 2006 | 31 Comments

User called Wendell sent in this photo few weeks ago. If you read carefully what he wrote, and open this picture in full size, you will see a neat optical illusion – at least it amazed me! Wendell: “I cropped this image for my web sight, and found it funny that the photo no longer [...]




(3 votes)
June 30, 2006 | 16 Comments

This is what I just found in my mail box. One of our fans, Arturo Contreras was messing with photoshop, and accidentally created this optical illusion. As you see, the horizontal lines appear bent and distorted, while infact they are perfectly straight. This shows you how some of the “greatest” inventions in the history of [...]




(6 votes)
June 20, 2006 | 30 Comments

Mike just sent us this optical illusion. The question is – Are the purple lines straight or bent? I know the answer, from my experience messing with this kind of illusions every day. But it’s up to you to solve this one.




(3 votes)
May 23, 2006 | 8 Comments

Remember “Crooked Skyscraper”, “Russian Cafe”… These all have the same bent effect, more commonly known as “Cafe Wall Effect”. It gives you impression lines in the wall are all messed-up, while in fact they are perfectly straight & parallel. This image below shows you the original Cafe Wall that inspired the use of it’s name [...]




(6 votes)
May 13, 2006 | 25 Comments

This simple, yet dellusional picture gives you opinnion lines in it aren’t parallel. If you pay attention or zoom this image, carefully following space between them, you’ll come to conclusion it’s always the same, thus lines are indeed parallel! Anyone objects to this statement?





