Every now and then we get wave of new visitors (and this just happened few days ago when BBC mentioned us on their channel). I feel its decent to introduce our new readers to some of the features on this site. Others will probably find few interesting facts here as well. So let’s begin:
Before we start, I’d like to invite you to subscribe to our RSS Feed, and be sure to set our website as bookmark in your web browser (CTRL + D), or even better – make us as your starting page (if you like us that much). If you use Twitter you may also”follow” our updates there.
Did you know that except new optical illusions that are daily posted to this site, we have developed small widgets (applications) that you may place on your computer, and they will show newest optical illusion on your desktop each day. These widgets are called “Optical Illusion of The Day“, and you may install version for almost each popular platform. All of them can be found as a links in our sidebar. We have versions for:
- Windows Desktop (PC Widget)
- Windows Vista (Vista Gadget)
- Mac (Dashboard Widget)
- Myspace App
- Facebook App
- iGoogle
- iPhone
Feel free to download any of them – they’re free! When new optical illusion is posted here, on Mighty Optical Illusions website, your widget will automatically refresh and shows you the newest pic. You may click the illusion inside the widget, and browser will automatically take you to this particular illusion’s description. There you can read comments, express your thoughts and rate the illusion accordingly.
If you want to learn more about this website and its history be sure to check “About” section. Its not very complex. In short, to browse illusions by category – use the sidebar categories on your right. You may even use “next random illusion” link just below the header logo (also inside each post below article), and I promise you’ll be entertained for weeks.
There is more info where else this site has been featured. I’m just adding BBC info to it. If you think I forgot something, be sure to comment! Apart from all this, optical illusion posted today is quite simple – by staring only at the top image, can you guess which dot represents the true center of the sphere. Is it green or red dot?
The second image should be hidden it ruins the effect but otherwise great stuff as always
I guessed that it was the green one, but only because it looked like it was the red one, and it’s usually the opposite of what it looks like.
Is there anything written about the actual illusion? The title says “Central Dots Optical Illusion” but the body of this is all an update on widgets, twitter, and other junk.
Wait I found it! It’s the last sentence!
Wow… what a waste.
Hold on… Are you saying the iPhone app is now free?
If it is… Wow.
Yeah Vurdlak, you introduced an option to click the image to see the answer, didn’t you?
It was also ruined for me…
great
but you’ve written the text write next to the solution so its hard to realise what its about and avert your eyes
Nice! Could you also make an Widget for Opera? Or I’ll have a look over there and ask if someone else can make it…
great effect I guessed right without seeing the solution. I agree with Tom. You have done hidden solutions in the past I like those, it make think before seeing you choose to look at the solution.
Great site! Saw you on the BBC segment.
In the spirit of requested feedback, my one and only criticism would be that everything loads very slowly compared to 95% of the other sites I browse daily.
Keep up the great work!
I wish you would post information about the illusion insead of us guessing what it is supposed to be. This one was easy to figure out but some are not.
Yea, I did guess right, but not because the green dot looks like it is in the centre but because, of the fact that it doesn’t look like it is the in the centre and because this is a optical illusion it therefore had to be the one in the centre. Anyway, well done once again on benign featured on BBC, you getting right up there with other famous BBC people such as Monty Python.
i didn’t think either of them were central they didn’t look central to me but when the green one turned out central I was surprised…
Don’t forget…… you also have a widget on My Yahoo! That’s where my widget is located
I agree, second image should show both dots. I’m not so sure it’s obvious even without the curved lines. Nevertheless, I did “guess” right.
I like the effect, plus I knew about the widget’s I only have the windows vista one.
I thought it was green! LOL!
what happened to the original moillusions? where they “actually” talked about illusions instead of just make it a site for adds and trying to get people to download their widget? this website used to be a daily for me. Now its just an old widget i look at while im waiting for my weather info to load.
You have a strange definition of your widgets being free… The iPhone app costs $0.99 afaik…
Good one, Vurdlak! Simple, yet good.
As my eyes told me that the red dot was the center dot, I was very certain that it was not. Because that was why it became an illusion. The curved lines would force your eyes to perceive it that way.
And I was right! Ha!
I think you would be interested in reading my analysis of perceptual illusion. See ‘Narrative, Perception, Language, and Faith’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Give the guy a break, will you? He provides optical illusions for your entertainment day after day after day after day. And what do you do? You complain when he advertises stuff. On his own site. Which he paid for himself. And he doesn’t even do it everyday! Most days he just talks about the illusion and nothing more.
I know being grateful is a very hard thing to do. But you can learn. It’s very useful later on in your life.
Er… you have to scroll past the solution in order to read the actual question!
This can’t be right, surely?
yeah, i got it right.
huh