This repeating pattern of an ornithological variety contains a number of birds - but exactly how many of each color are there ?
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Birds Illusion - Bird Pattern
This repeating pattern of an ornithological variety contains a number of birds - but exactly how many of each color are there ?
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Saturday, May 26, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Birds Optical Illusion
Some people may react to this anomalous motion optical illusion and if you think you might be one of these people it is important to read the caution at the top of this page prior to proceeding.
The birds in this image appear to fly in a counter-clockwise direction.
Herman has a large collection of optical illusions that he has created over time. He has generously allowed me to feature a few of his pieces here. This is the first I chose to show because I love the motion of the birds. His illusions run the gambit and I will be showing you more of his excellent Trick-Art in the future.
Thank you Herman for allowing me to share this with my viewers.
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The birds in this image appear to fly in a counter-clockwise direction.
Herman J. Verwaal
copyright 2005
used w/permission
copyright 2005
used w/permission
Herman has a large collection of optical illusions that he has created over time. He has generously allowed me to feature a few of his pieces here. This is the first I chose to show because I love the motion of the birds. His illusions run the gambit and I will be showing you more of his excellent Trick-Art in the future.
Thank you Herman for allowing me to share this with my viewers.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Flying Birds Illusion
Here is a beautiful view of artist who shows the many possibilities offered to the illusion of rotation. It is the combination of repeated only 4 colors that creates the illusion in our brains.
Indeed, removing the alternating colors, the effect disappears immediately.
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Indeed, removing the alternating colors, the effect disappears immediately.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Face with Tree & Birds | Optical Illusion
Amazing Illusion Made By Tree & Birds
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Colorful bird illusion | Hidden bird illusion
This repeating pattern of an ornithological variety contains a number of colorful and hidden birds - but exactly how many of each color are there?
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
11 Face Optical Illusion - Scary Optical Illusion
What you can see in it?
some faces of man, women, birds and some of the animals.
11 faces are in it
Can you find out them?
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some faces of man, women, birds and some of the animals.
11 faces are in it
Can you find out them?
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Face with Tree & Birds | Optical Illusion
Amazing Illusion Made By Tree & Birds
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
11 Face Optical Illusion - Scary Optical Illusion
What you can see in it?
some faces of man, women, birds and some of the animals.
11 faces are in it
Can you find out them?
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some faces of man, women, birds and some of the animals.
11 faces are in it
Can you find out them?
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
M.C. Escher Bio
Maurits Cornelis Escher (Leeuwarden, June 17, 1898 – March 27, 1972 in Laren) was a Dutch artist most known for his woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints, which tend to feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, and tessellations.
Youth
Maurits Cornelis, or Mauk as he was to be nicknamed, was born in Leeuwarden (Friesland), the Netherlands. He was the youngest son of civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sarah Gleichman. In 1903, the family moved to Arnhem where he took carpentry and piano lessons until the age of thirteen.
From 1912 until 1918, he attended secondary school; though he excelled at drawing, his grades were generally poor, and he had to repeat the second form. Later, from 1919, Escher attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts; he briefly studied architecture, but then made a switch to decorative arts, studying under Samuel Jesserun de Mesquita, an artist whom he would remain in contact with until de Mesquita, his wife and son were murdered by the Nazis in early 1944. In 1922, Escher, having gained experience in drawing and particularly woodcutting, left the school.
Marriage and later life
Escher travelled to Italy regularly in the following years. It was in Italy, too, that he first met Jetta Umiker, the same woman who he married and made his vows to in 1924. The young couple settled down in Rome after they had been married and stayed there for just over ten years until 1935; when the political climate under Mussolini became unbearable, the family moved to Château-d'Oex, Switzerland. They stayed here for two years.
Escher, however, who had been very fond of and inspired by the landscape in Italy, was decidedly unhappy in Switzerland, so two years later, in 1937, the family moved again, this time to Ukkel, a small town near Brussels, Belgium. World War II forced them to move for the last time in January 1941, this time to Baarn, the Netherlands, where Escher lived until 1970.
Most of Escher's better-known pictures date from this period; the (sometimes) cloudy, cold, wet weather of the Netherlands allowed him to focus entirely on his works, and only in 1962, when he had to undergo surgery, was there a time when no new images were created.
Escher moved to the Rosa-Spier house in Laren in the northern Netherlands in 1970, a retirement home for artists where he could have a studio of his own. He died at the home on the 27th of March 1972, he was 73 years of age. Escher and Umiker had three sons.
Works
Well known examples of his work include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown drawing each other, Sky and Water, in which plays on light and shadow convert fish in water into birds in the sky, and Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective.
Escher's work has a strong mathematical component, and many of the worlds which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and the Penrose triangle. Many of Escher's works employed repeated tilings called Tessellations. Escher's artwork is well-liked by scientists, especially mathematicians who enjoy his use of polyhedra and geometric distortions. For example, in Gravity, multi-colored turtles poke their heads out of a stellated dodecahedron.
One of his most notable works is the piece Metamorphosis III, which is wide enough to cover all the walls in a room, and then loop back onto itself. That was, of course, the intention.
Selected list of works
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Youth
Maurits Cornelis, or Mauk as he was to be nicknamed, was born in Leeuwarden (Friesland), the Netherlands. He was the youngest son of civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sarah Gleichman. In 1903, the family moved to Arnhem where he took carpentry and piano lessons until the age of thirteen.
From 1912 until 1918, he attended secondary school; though he excelled at drawing, his grades were generally poor, and he had to repeat the second form. Later, from 1919, Escher attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts; he briefly studied architecture, but then made a switch to decorative arts, studying under Samuel Jesserun de Mesquita, an artist whom he would remain in contact with until de Mesquita, his wife and son were murdered by the Nazis in early 1944. In 1922, Escher, having gained experience in drawing and particularly woodcutting, left the school.
Marriage and later life
Escher travelled to Italy regularly in the following years. It was in Italy, too, that he first met Jetta Umiker, the same woman who he married and made his vows to in 1924. The young couple settled down in Rome after they had been married and stayed there for just over ten years until 1935; when the political climate under Mussolini became unbearable, the family moved to Château-d'Oex, Switzerland. They stayed here for two years.
Escher, however, who had been very fond of and inspired by the landscape in Italy, was decidedly unhappy in Switzerland, so two years later, in 1937, the family moved again, this time to Ukkel, a small town near Brussels, Belgium. World War II forced them to move for the last time in January 1941, this time to Baarn, the Netherlands, where Escher lived until 1970.
Most of Escher's better-known pictures date from this period; the (sometimes) cloudy, cold, wet weather of the Netherlands allowed him to focus entirely on his works, and only in 1962, when he had to undergo surgery, was there a time when no new images were created.
Escher moved to the Rosa-Spier house in Laren in the northern Netherlands in 1970, a retirement home for artists where he could have a studio of his own. He died at the home on the 27th of March 1972, he was 73 years of age. Escher and Umiker had three sons.
Works
Well known examples of his work include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown drawing each other, Sky and Water, in which plays on light and shadow convert fish in water into birds in the sky, and Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective.
Escher's work has a strong mathematical component, and many of the worlds which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and the Penrose triangle. Many of Escher's works employed repeated tilings called Tessellations. Escher's artwork is well-liked by scientists, especially mathematicians who enjoy his use of polyhedra and geometric distortions. For example, in Gravity, multi-colored turtles poke their heads out of a stellated dodecahedron.
One of his most notable works is the piece Metamorphosis III, which is wide enough to cover all the walls in a room, and then loop back onto itself. That was, of course, the intention.
Selected list of works
- Trees, ink, (1920)
- St. Bavo's, Haarlem, ink, (1920)
- Flor de Pascua (The Easter Flower), woodcut/book illustrations, (1921)
- Eight Heads, woodcut, (1922)
- Dolphins (Dolphins in Phosphorescent Sea), woodcut, (1923)
- Tower of Babel, woodcut, (1928)
- Landscape at Abruzzi, scratch drawing, ink and chalk, (1929)
- Street in Scanno, Abruzzi, lithograph, (1930)
- Castrovalva, lithograph, (1930)
- The Bridge, lithograph, (1930)
- Palizzi, Calabria, woodcut, (1930)
- Pentedattilo, Calabria, lithograph, (1930)
- Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, lithograph, (1931)
- Ravello and the Coast of Amalfi, lithograph, (1931)
- Covered Alley in Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, wood engraving, (1931)
- Still Life with Spherical Mirror, lithograph, (1934)
- Hand with Reflecting Sphere (Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror), lithograph, (1935)
- Inside St. Peter's, wood engraving, (1935)
- Portrait of G.A. Escher, lithograph, (1935)
- 'Hell' , lithograph, (1935) (copied from a painting by Hieronymus Bosch)
- Regular Division of the Plane, series of drawings, (1936-196?)
- Still Life and Street, woodcut, (1937)
- Metamorphosis I, woodcut, (1937)
- Day and Night, woodcut, (1938)
- Cycle, lithograph, (1938)
- Sky and Water I, woodcut, (1938)
- Metamorphosis II, woodcut, (1939-1940)
- Verbum (Earth, Sky and Water), lithograph, (1942)
- Reptiles, lithograph, (1943)
- Ant, lithograph, (1943)
- Encounter, lithograph, (1944)
- Doric Columns, wood engraving, (1945)
- Three Spheres I, wood engraving, (1945)
- Magic Mirror, lithograph, (1946)
- Three Spheres II, lithograph, (1946)
- Another World Mezzotint (Other World Gallery), mezzotint, (1946)
- Another World (Other World), wood engraving and woodcut, (1947)
- Crystal, mezzotint, (1947)
- Up and Down, lithograph, (1947)
- Drawing Hands, lithograph, (1948)
- Dewdrop, mezzotint, (1948)
- Stars, wood engraving, (1948)
- Double Planetoid, wood engraving, (1949)
- Order and Chaos (Contrast), lithograph, (1950)
- Rippled Surface, woodcut and linoleum cut, (1950)
- Curl-up, lithograph, (1951)
- House of Stairs, lithograph, (1951)
- House of Stairs II, lithograph, (1951)
- Puddle, woodcut, (1952)
- Gravitation, lithograph and watercolor, (1952)
- Cubic Space Division, lithograph, (1952)
- Relativity, lithograph, (1953)
- Tetrahedral Planetoid, woodcut, (1954)
- Compass Rose (Order and Chaos II), lithograph, (1955)
- Convex and Concave, lithograph, (1955)
- Three Worlds, lithograph, (1955)
- Print Gallery, lithograph, (1956)
- Belvedere, lithograph, (1958)
- Sphere Spirals, woodcut, (1958)
- Ascending and Descending, lithograph, (1960)
- Waterfall, lithograph, (1961)
- Möbius Strip II (Red Ants) woodcut, (1963)
- Knot, pencil and crayon, (1966)
- Metamorphosis III, woodcut, (1967-1968)
- Snakes, woodcut, (1969)
- Matt Groening of The Simpsons made a reference to Escher in his Life in Hell comic. In Groening's parody of Escher's Relativity, cartoon rabbits fall down stairs at impossible angles. Groening would later reuse this joke in an episode of Futurama and as a couch gag on The Simpsons.
- Similarly, a character on Drawn Together, an animated series on Comedy Central, was pushed down (and up, around, and back down) a flight of stairs modeled on Relativity.
- In the Jim Henson movie Labyrinth Relativity is referenced again. The audience is again treated to an answer to the great question: what if somebody walks off the edge? The Escher estate was given acknowledgement in the credits for the film.
- The bonus stages of the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, feature an animated background of birds turning into fish, a reference to Sky and Water.
- In Larry Niven's novel Protector, the protagonist builds a working model of Relativity using gravitational engineering.
- The Psygnosis computer game Lemmings features a level called Tribute to M.C.Escher, although it doesn't sport Escheresque graphics. The Crystal Shard computer game SubTerra features a similarly named level, which does consist entirely of a repetitive pattern.
- The early nineties rock group Chagall Guevara wrote a song called "Escher's World" which made many references to the impossible structures that can be found in Escher's work.
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Hidden Water Animals Illusion
This is Amazing, there is lots of birds and fish but quite confusing to know actually what are there.
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Thursday, March 3, 2005
Ascending and Descending
M.C. Escher is a great artist known for many drawings that feature impossible features.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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The M.C. Escher work shown here is titled Ascending and Descending. His work has inspired many other artists over the years.
Wikipedia says the following about the works of M.C. Escher
Here is Andrew's version of Escher's "Ascending and Descending". This was joint work with Daniel Shiu. The full details regarding the construction can be found at the Ascending and Descending (back online) page. Since his page isn't accessible currently I'll let you in on a secret, in order for this construct to look real it had to be photographed from this precise angle. Again, please note that this image is copyright Andrew Lipson.
Andrew has recreated many Escher works. You can see some of them by searching Google, but as soon as his site is accessible again it is well worth a look because he shows angles and shares construction secrets that can't be found anywhere else.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Maurits Cornelis Escher (Leeuwarden, June 17, 1898 - Laren, March 27, 1972) was a Dutch artist most known for his woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints, which tend to feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, and tessellations.
To Purchase this print click the picture.
The M.C. Escher work shown here is titled Ascending and Descending. His work has inspired many other artists over the years.
Wikipedia says the following about the works of M.C. Escher
One such inspired artist is Andrew Lipson. Andrew's page is currently forbidden. I am hoping that this is for a short duration. He has recreated various works of Escher's with Legos.Well known examples of his work include Drawing Hands, a work in which two hands are shown drawing each other, Sky and Water, in which plays on light and shadow convert fish in water into birds in the sky, and Ascending and Descending, in which lines of people ascend and descend stairs in an infinite loop, on a construction which is impossible to build and possible to draw only by taking advantage of quirks of perception and perspective.
Escher's work has a strong mathematical component, and many of the worlds which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and the Penrose triangle. Many of Escher's works employed repeated tilings called Tesselations. Escher's artwork is well-liked by scientists, especially mathematicians who enjoy his use of polyhedra and geometric distortions. For example, in Gravity, multi-colored turtles poke their heads out of a stellated dodecahedron.
One of his most notable works is the piece Metamorphosis III, which is wide enough to cover all the walls in a room, and then loop back onto itself. That was, of course, the intention.
Copyright © A. Lipson 2002
Here is Andrew's version of Escher's "Ascending and Descending". This was joint work with Daniel Shiu. The full details regarding the construction can be found at the Ascending and Descending (back online) page. Since his page isn't accessible currently I'll let you in on a secret, in order for this construct to look real it had to be photographed from this precise angle. Again, please note that this image is copyright Andrew Lipson.
Andrew has recreated many Escher works. You can see some of them by searching Google, but as soon as his site is accessible again it is well worth a look because he shows angles and shares construction secrets that can't be found anywhere else.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Optical Illusions used by Plants and Animals
Optical illusions are survivor mechanisms for many plants and animals. We are all familiar with the chameleon. Presented here is the chameleon and other various examples of animals and plants using optical illusions to survive.
With its distinctive shape, ponderous movements and tiny eyes at the ends of conical turrets, the chameleon is an unmistakable reptile. Its ability to change colour is very well known, but this is not done to match its background as commonly believed - although that may happen coincidentally - but as a means of communication and to regulate body temperature.
If you surprise a chameleon, it will inflate its body, open its mouth to reveal it bright orange palette, hiss, and lunge forward. Such behavior is intended to surprise and confuse any attacker, giving the chameleon time to make an escape and utilize its superb camouflage against the foliage of a shrub or tree. Although slow-moving when under observation - they walk slowly to avoid detection - chameleons are actually able to scamper quite quickly when being pursued. The ferocious defensive behavior of these little lizards led to the ancient Greeks naming them 'Dwarf Lions' - 'Chamai leons'.
With special resemblance, animals use a combination of color, shape and behavior to help them appear like something in their habitat. They are simply mistaken for something else. The walking stick is a great example. This insect becomes almost invisible due to the shape of its body, its coloration and its slow movement. It looks and acts just like a twig on a bush or tree..
Living stones also known as Lithops are plants that survive by looking like rocks in Southern Africa's deserts where they have become highly adapted to conditions of extreme heat and drought.
Which one is the caterpillar, and which is the twig? A close look at the bottom feet of the twig on the left shows that it is really a small caterpillar, which freezes itself into a rigid posture when predators are near! This ability enables it to escape detection by birds (but pays for its cleverness by occasionally having some other insect lay eggs on it by mistake).
The katydid above hides on the forest floor. It has a perfect disguise... it resembles a dead leaf, veins and all!
For more examples of animals using camouflage go to this site.
All of these examples above are nice but the ultimate example of an animal using an optical illusion is the duck in the below picture. Hunters have been using decoys for years it was just a matter of time until the ducks turned the table on them.
This last animal optical illusion was found over on Tasty Blog.
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If you surprise a chameleon, it will inflate its body, open its mouth to reveal it bright orange palette, hiss, and lunge forward. Such behavior is intended to surprise and confuse any attacker, giving the chameleon time to make an escape and utilize its superb camouflage against the foliage of a shrub or tree. Although slow-moving when under observation - they walk slowly to avoid detection - chameleons are actually able to scamper quite quickly when being pursued. The ferocious defensive behavior of these little lizards led to the ancient Greeks naming them 'Dwarf Lions' - 'Chamai leons'.
Twigs or Walking Sticks?
Plants or Rocks
Twig or Caterpillar?
Hiding as a Dead Leaf?
The katydid above hides on the forest floor. It has a perfect disguise... it resembles a dead leaf, veins and all!
For more examples of animals using camouflage go to this site.
The Duck Blind?
All of these examples above are nice but the ultimate example of an animal using an optical illusion is the duck in the below picture. Hunters have been using decoys for years it was just a matter of time until the ducks turned the table on them.
This last animal optical illusion was found over on Tasty Blog.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
The Hidden Bird And Lion Illusion
This one is pretty easy but see if you can see the lion and a bird hidden amongst the Zebras and let me know how many Birds, Lions and Zebras did you found. Don't forget to comment me
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Friday, October 26, 2012
What can you see?
What can you see? A woman's face? Two horses or three birds?
Or all three?
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sharp Billboard Slices Up Stupid Pigeons - Razor Blade Billboard
Annoying birds pooping all over your front porch? There is a billboard for that, the new extra-large razor blade will slice some in half and teach the others a valuable lesson. Also works on giant rocks raining down on your flowers.
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Sharp Billboard Slices Up Stupid Pigeons - Razor Blade Billboard
Annoying birds pooping all over your front porch? There is a billboard for that, the new extra-large razor blade will slice some in half and teach the others a valuable lesson. Also works on giant rocks raining down on your flowers.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Hidden Bird And Lion Illusion
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Cow with Wings Illusion
What you see below at first glance looks like a winged divine horse from Greek mythology, more precisely – Pegasus. However, our intuition tells us this possibility is hardly possible. In fact, this funny-looking mutation of antelope and bird is actually a clever optical illusion. So what did originally happen? The animal stumbled upon the bird’s nest and had quickly been shooed away by the protective mother. The bird in question here is an Indian Sarus Crane, the tallest flying bird in the world. Luckily there were some visitors at the Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan, India), who noticed the animals appeared to blend in to one, and took the photo we now share!
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