Video Illusions Category
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Along with professor George Alvarez, graduate student Jordan Suchow from Department of Psychology at Harvard University made a new discovery in the filed of optical illusions. The paper titled Motion silences awareness of visual change was published in Current Biology on January 6, 2011 (PDF here). The effect is called Silencing, and it demonstrates how [...]
(36 votes)
We haven’t had a nifty video illusion for a while, so I decided to share another fabulous creation by greeenpro2009. As you will see shortly, it’s nothing we haven’t already seen, but what greeenpro did, he combined two old school illusions into one, and posted a video clip of his work. I think this should [...]
(26 votes)
Optical illusions fool us by violating our assumptions about what we see. The end results of how our brains process visual cues can be fascinating at times. What I have here for you today, is a DIY tutorial for an illusion we already featured once in the past. It’s a rather simple, but extremely effective [...]
(69 votes)
Don’t ask me why, but somehow these kind of videos never get boring (at least speaking for myself)! The magical floating cube below was constructed by graphic designer Peter Dahmen. If you wish, you can even download a free tutorial, one that will guide through process of creating this one yourselves. It’s just like the [...]
(39 votes)
Simplicity and confusion don’t often go hand in hand. Here’s a confusing puzzle, also known as Confuzzle, that can be made in minutes. Although this puzzle involves simple geometric principles, it is surprising and even baffling for some people. In short, it’s a quick and easy toy you can prepare yourself in minutes, that is [...]
(37 votes)
Jeez, when it comes to being politically correct, you have to be the strictest audience the world has seen :) Once again I apologize for referring to our lady friends as “chicks” in my previous post. Dunno why would someone find this offensive, since I consider this more of a compliment. Perhaps I haven’t mastered [...]
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There were bunch of new anamorphoses lately, and I thought to myself what could be better than closing the cycle with a nice video showing these works in action. Fortunately, I found one. As you may observe, the images start out scrambled and skewed, but as we often explained, when a cylinder mirror is placed [...]
(74 votes)
From the creators of one of the best video illusions we have in our archives (Little Green Dragon), here comes another interesting toy. Have you heard about optical illusion ring? Apparently, when you turn the ring one way, it seems to be getting fatter; but rotate it in the opposite direction, and it will seem [...]
