Afghan Girl Optical Illusion

(16 votes)

Probably all of you saw this picture at some point of your life. Titled the “Afghan Girl”, this photo was named the most recognized photograph in the history of National Geographic. Although girl’s name was not known, her picture appeared on the June 1985 cover of the magazine. The image of her face, with a [...]

Twilight Saga Illusion Collection

(11 votes)

I’ve been working on this website for the last few days, it’s just that the work being done was held on the back-end side. This is why there hasn’t been any updates for the last two days. My deepest apologies.
Anyhow, recently I’ve noticed hysteria among chicks over this vampire saga called Twilight. My girlfriend read [...]

Attacking Lion Optical Illusion

(12 votes)

What we see here, is a hungry lion jumping on to the bonnet of an open-topped truck, snarling straight into the faces of safari family. The amazing part is they just roar with laughter. Normally, placing stone-cold masochists on an illusion oriented blog makes no sense. But this close encounter of the furred kind is [...]

Not What You Originally Thought

(32 votes)

Fresh optical illusions quickly become viral on the net. Seems internet audience is always thirsty for more, and this is why photo below (once it became popular), was submitted to my mail dozen of times. At first I didn’t see anything. Then I spotted what seemed to be not much of an illusion, but something [...]

Sine Line Optical Illusion

(12 votes)

SINCE by now all of you are ware that English isn’t my mother language, there are still some minor details I’d like to check. One of the major steps I surpassed recently is learning the difference between it’s and its. Yeah, it may sound dumb but this little thing made me uncertain for quite some [...]

Gulliver’s Travels Optical Illusion

(17 votes)

Relative Sizes category consists of hundred interesting optical illusions, but the problem occurs when you start understanding them. When you see one, it is if you have seen all. All of them start to look the same. This is probably why none of them were posted lately. Well, this time Alan Mountain ensured we get [...]

Henry Lim’s LEGO Escher

(14 votes)

While its not possible to actually build an impossible structure with LEGOs, it might be possible to create a structure that (when viewed from the appropriate angle) would recreate the illusion. We already proved this many times, but if you are new to this site – be sure to check LEGO tag. You’ll quickly realize [...]

Megafon’s Folded Chessboard

(16 votes)

Just found this great advertisement done by one of the largest Russian mobile communication companies Megafon (which unfortunately, I never heard of). If you’ve been following our website from its very start, the photo below may look  somehow familiar to you. Yes, we posted “The Terrace” optical illusion (article title: “Parallel World”) back in March [...]

The Bourdon Optical Illusion

(18 votes)

There’s a new optical illusion in town, and its name is “Bourdon Illusion“. The Bourdon  illusion is the apparent “bentness” of the straight edge of a figure consisting of two elongated triangles arranged apex to apex.
Like you see in the image on your left, the upper side of the left-lower triangle is actually aligned with [...]

Cheap Watch-store Optical Illusion

(28 votes)

I have just remembered this cheap little trick a friend of mine, Boris told me once. Try looking at any watch store window, or if you are inpatient, and  wish to check this right now, you can use Google image search. Enter the search term “watch”, and search for wrist watches  or clocks. You will [...]