Butterflies Illusion

Below I present the butterfly illusion, if you stare at this long enough the obvious will jump out at you. Can you see what I'm referring to?Buy this Poster at AllPosters.com Obviously sometimes a rose is just a rose. There are no hidden images in this...

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Simultaneous Contrast Illusion

Viewing two colors at the same time influences both of their appearances. The following is an example of simultaneous contrast.It is easy for me to state that the gray bar is exactly the same shade of gray throughout it's range. Most of us however will...

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Escher Parodied

Worth1000.com had a photoshop contest the rules were as follows:Escher. All Escher, all the time, He's not cliche anymore. Everyone's got at least one, so... Anything goes-- tweak it, colour it, tattoo it, whatever, start with an Escher, and have fun.The...

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Even babies can have optical illusions

Five-month-old Samuel doesn't seem at all worried about the large plaster covering his right eye. He gurgles contentedly and tugs inquisitively at the white curtain in front of his nose, until it is lifted up by an invisible force. Now Samuel is looking...

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Here is the Subway Ladder Optical Illusion

Many of you know by now that I love coming across optical Illusions used in real life encounters. Below are two pictures, just study the top one before looking at the bottom one.These photos were taken in Toronto, opening day of the New Sheppard Subway...

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Eye in the Sky

Here is another image taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). I found this on Artsy Science. Tracy runs this blog and creates the images. I love this photo he says the following on this creation.I'm sure many are thinking "dammit Tracy, enough...

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Color-constancy illusion

I have seen this illusion many times and for some reason never focused on it. I must have past by this optical illusion a dozen times before finally focusing on an article and reading what it is about. It is very similar to the checkershadow illusion...

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Tarot Bridge to Infinity

J.M. Berger creator of Chaosdancer created a Chaos tarot deck based on fractal images. He also provides (for a price) an online tarot reading for those interested. Tarot readings can provide individuals insight or as some might say the illusion of insight....

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Triquetra Fractal

The below is from a New Zealand blog called "Not Quite Perfect." Dzeni is the site's proprietor, she focuses this blog on Fractals many of which she created using Chaoscope. The image below I believe is a recent creation of hers.At the request of a reader...

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Astral Projection? No, Natural Projection.

Rob from What Is It? provided me a follow up to the Magnifying Glass Optical Illusion post. Rob included the below picture and this explanation.If you put a magnifying glass a few inches from a wall that is opposite a window, you will see the outside...

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Under The Sea

This is not an optical illusion but it is too cool to pass up. This restaurant doesn't give you the illusion of the sea with a large aquarium, they actually place you five meters below the surface, smack dab in the middle of the Indian Ocean.The Maldives...

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Magnifying Glass Optical Illusion

Aaron from the photoblog Knurdle.com took this photo and presented it on his blog. He says the following about this picture and effect: Neat trick you can do with a magnifying glass.I was amazed when I was shown this and had to get a picture of it....

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