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

(17 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 [...]

Cats and Dogs Illusion

(7 votes)

Minding his own business, Tomcat the cat went for a walk. Suddenly he saw an intruder in his sight, and ran away with all his might. The intruder chased him all the way down the lane, until Tomcat tried to jump over the fence. The fence was too high, so all our our little friend [...]

Poision Perfume from Dior Illusion

(7 votes)

So, anyone remembers original scary skull illusion? In 1860, an unknown author created first know illusion of this type, and called it “Blossom and Decay”. It was one of the first optical illusions in general! It is the third image you can see inside this article. What is so interesting about this motive, is the [...]

Sometimes Book Isn’t Just a Book

(11 votes)

Sometimes a book is just a book, but luckily this time it’s not the case. What you see below can be interpreted as a plain opened book, but if you are more twisted, you will probably see fine woman’s breasts first. So what is it, let’s decide together. This has to be one of my [...]