Impossible American Model Illusion

Greg Grease Lehman, “The Grease” is a tattoo master who sometimes plays with optical illusions and their forms. We have already seen Greg’s tattoo face illusion, but this time he sent us something completely different. Impossible objects like this one never get old. They are interesting when they are photoshopped, like the yesterday’s illusion, but when the model is real, it makes you even more confused! This is what our Tattoo Master wrote: “Mr. Vurdlak, here is a paper model I made last night. Probably seen before. But I still like it! More to come!”

38 Replies to “Impossible American Model Illusion”

    1. just imagine the object without the red stripes… those stripes are the key to this optical illusion

  1. its not really impossible, it just LOOKS impossible. took me a minute to see it, but it makes sense if you think about it.

  2. Now I get it, the white and red striped piece of paper is supposed to look straight. I seriously was trying to find where the illusion was, not how it was made, but it’s still very well done

  3. at first I thought it was 2D also…now I wonder if it only appears this way when photographed from a perfect angle?…like those larger building & interior illusions posted here before – that are only visible from a single viewpoint.

  4. Very.. very nice! we don’t see the red paper reflection on the glass. :P:P or i’m really tired. Else its wonderful! and confusing!

  5. Wow, that’s really cool! I had to cheat and look at the other comments to actually see the illusion; otherwise, I’d still be scratching my head, wondering, but yes, I’m still confused on actually how it’s done! I wonder if it’s an angle of the camera along with a a “slip-over” piece of paper. That’s my best guess, but whatever it is, it’s very neat!

  6. This photo isn’t taken in a perfect angle, the edges aren’t align. I mean, the blue box has a cut up side. // Yo hablo en español así que… El lado pòsteror de la caja está cortado y doblado hacia adelante para que coincida con la caja a rayas, se puede notar que los bordes no están alineados, es decir, el ángulo de la foto no está perfecto.

  7. That model is cool. Is there a place on the internet where we can actualy the information how to build such models at home?

  8. On the google widget you should tell us what to do instead of what it is called.

    For example: find the lion not Lion ilusion or something.

  9. the right side of the blue box seems to be crooked .. i m onlhy guesing here…

    if you look at it straight on.. heres what (i think) it’d seem like..
    ___________
    | _______ |
    | |…../ / <-- stars box
    _|_|____/_/_
    |_|_|________| <-- stripe box
    | |_____\ \
    |__________|

  10. Whoa! I had to read the comments before I could tell what the illusion was, as well… I didn’t even notice that the horizontal box was like that! I guess my mind automatically interpreted it in the only way that made sense… But now, that is all I can see when I look at the picture! It’s so weird…

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