Video Illusions Category

Spiders may not be the most popular creatures – theres even a phobia named after them, but German art student Friedrich von Schoor appears to have no problem with them! As part of a project at his art college, Friedrich used a video of some ordinary spiders trapped inside a small tank to create a [...]

If you haven’t had the chance to see this “Missing/Extra Cube” video that went viral recently, here’s your chance to see it now! Norberto Jansenson has re-thinked famous missing-piece illusion (original version included triangle), and then presented it in much more appealing and effective manner. The idea behind this toy is somewhat identical to “Preposterous [...]

If you’re an old time fan of Mighty Optical Illusions blog you’re already familiar with all kinds of #impossible objects. We’ve featured hundreds of them over the course of seven years, however, after seeing creations of mathematician and professor Kokichi Sugihara, I will think before I use the word impossible going forward. Sugihara’s award-winning creations [...]

When I woke up this morning and opened my mailbox I saw a dozen of submissions containing the very same link pointing to brusspup’s YouTube channel – I was immediately aware something important was happening. Boy was I right! After seeing this video for the first time I couldn’t believe my eyes. I played it [...]

Breviary: Book of Catholic Prayers iPhone App

Available on the iPhone App Store Get it Now! Here’s an exclusive announcement for all of our “Mighty Optical Illusions” fans: My friend and I, we just started a business based on iPhone application development! What I’m about to show you is our first major release! For the past year we’ve been working hard to [...]

While ago I have posted an interesting optical illusion video showing relatively unknown distorting effect in action. This recently discovered phenomena uses god-knows what kind of trickery to distort ordinary (even beautiful) faces into ugly caricatures. It’s also worth mentioning that the discovery was made by accident, or – pure luck if you will. Perhaps [...]

Two years ago, a Spanish filmmaker Cristóbal Vila shot an exquisite short movie “Nature by Numbers“, which captured the ways in which mathematical concepts like Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Number exist in nature. Vila has now returned with even more magnificent film called “Inspirations”, which tries to imagine what M.C. Escher’s workplace might have looked [...]

I’ve been observing lately which of the posts get most of your attention, and unsurprisingly it turns out those articles featuring a video of some sort gained most recognition. So, let me show you another interesting optical illusion video dealing with perspective. It works in a similar manner Vans commercial did. You can see an [...]