Snake Eyes Illusion

Ever saw that movie called “Snake Eyes” with Nicholas Cage? Well, this illusion has nothing to do with it, except it shows you close-up of a snake’s eye. I love that movie, so had to mention it. Thats it. Wait, I’m kiddin’ again. The illusion is that the photo below has nothing to do with snakes… nor eyes, either! It is just an ordinary leaf found on the ground, and photographed from up close. I was pretty heavily surprised when I found it out. Did I manage to fool you as well? Hope I did :)

68 Replies to “Snake Eyes Illusion”

  1. I was like, no way it is too crinkly, but at first I couldnt figure out what it was until I read the paragraph at the top!!!!

  2. Quote:

    “it looks like an overhead map of some city.”

    Indeed it does. Hails to chaos theory. Patterns and structures are similar throughout the universe, and even the human mind has to submit to them. Unless you’re an US citizens that is, of course.

    1. The white spot is a hole in the leaf. Pretty easy once you know that it was a fallen leaf on the ground.

  3. I agree with the first guy. At first glance i didn’t even see the snake and I thought it was a google earth illusion.

  4. looks like a snake’s eye, but then it looks like a leaf. great illusion though! My mom was so convinced it was an eye…from far away anyway :)

  5. It really does look like a snake’s eye! Except when I saw the lines thorugh the ‘eye’ it sorta looked fake.
    p.s. does anyone have the name ‘skylar’?

  6. Really? I thought it looked like an old painting of an eye (like, Sistine Chapel old) because it looked like the point was all cracking

  7. i does look like a snake eye. but after i read the part that said its not a snake eye, i looked closer n thought it was a leaf… n then i kept readin n found out it is! lol cool :-)

  8. This is neat, and i do believe that is is an up close shot of a leaf, but i have a hard time believing that the black part is original. I think that part was maybe photoshopped or something of the like.

  9. was the leaf burnt to get the black mark
    Anyway it fooled me it really looks like a tanish snake eye nice find

  10. I think the technical term for this is a simulacra; something that appears to give the impression of something else… Nice.

  11. very nice…
    but i dont think they just found a leaf on the ground with that shape on it and they took a photo.
    to me it seems like they burned the leaf.. less around and a little more in the middle, thus giving that effect (lol thus)

  12. First i thought it was a trunk of a tree but then when i read the paragraph i was amazed that it was a leaf! Very COOL

  13. It had me fooled at first! Only when i looked at the caption i figured it out. This is very cool.
    I thought it was a snake eye.

  14. I also thought it was some sort of eye at first but when you said a leaf I saw what it was…i didn’t have any problems seeing it as a leaf…

  15. at first i was fooled then when i read the descriptions, i thought it was a joke…
    because i were looking closely i think i saw buildings and the black line in the middle, like a gap or somesort of earthquake err what do you call this, ah “crack”

  16. I thought it was a snake’s eye, probably because of the title, and then I thought it was a satellite image of a town.

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