The Illusion Images: July 2005

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Sunday, July 31, 2005

Dead-end Optical Illusion, or is it?

I found this on Decksitter's Photoblog. The photo is titled Dead-end. I found this photo interesting because the title would lead one to believe that this is indeed a dead-end. Dead-endCopyright Decksitter 2005Used w/permissionI believe however that...

Friday, July 29, 2005

White's Optical Illusion

Below is an excellent example of White's illusion. This is an interesting effect, below there is only one shade of gray, one shade of blue and one shade of red (to be clear all of the gray you see is the exact same color, this applies also to all blue...

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Candle Flame Optical Illusion

This illusion was created by Stephan Uhlmann. There was no digital manipulation of this image in any way. I like the simplicity of this image, very nice.You can find more photographs by Stephan here. Copyright by Stephan Uhlmann under the Creative Commons...

Public Service Announcement Optical Illusion

[Found on The Steel Deal.] This is my version of a Public Service Announcement (PSA).Everyone surfing the internet should be aware of this illusion because anyone chatting online might have fallen for this illusion and not even have known it.I have mentioned...

Monday, July 25, 2005

Moors’ Clock Tower Optical Illusion

Below is the Moors'’ Clock Tower, one of the most famous architectural landmarks in Venice, Italy. Italy Traveller says the following about this landmark:In short, the Tower and its large Astronomical Clock, a masterpiece of technology and engineering,...

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Flooded Home Optical Illusion

Here is another spontaneous optical illusion. Julie from Muscoda, Wisconsin posted this on Webcanvas back in March of 2002.Before we get to the optical illusion let's look at the below picture. From the ground to the top of the lattice doors below the...

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Diagonal Waves Optical Illusion

Prior to viewing this image please read the caution above.I saw this optical illusion many times around the net but it never impressed me until I saw a larger image. In the below image you might experience two different effects.The first effect is apparent...

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Holsteins Optical Illusion Watercolor

How many cows do you see? "Holsteins" - a Vermont parody of "Pintos"© 1994 Mike MayoneHere is an original watercolor by Mike Malone. This is obviously a parody of Bev Doolittle's "Pintos". Mike talks about this painting in his gallery.If you're unfamiliar...

Monday, July 18, 2005

Leaning Columns Optical Illusion

I found the below image on /T/BLOG/ over the weekend. This is a photoblog by T.J. Kemme.I found when viewing this image that there was an optical illusion at play.Due to the shadows curving around the columns I get the impression that this structure...

TV-Mirror Optical Illusion

Below is a young lady holding up a mirror to a monitor and in the mirror we see a different picture than what is actually being displayed on the monitor.How was this optical illusion created?I will give you one clue, there is a real mirror used in the...

Saturday, July 16, 2005

One Jet That Looks Like Two or Vice-a-Versa?

This is a great optical illusion. Would you believe that the below optical illusion of two jets flying next to each other is actually done entirely with paint?Of course you wouldn't. At first glance though a paint job might just cross your mind. But...

Friday, July 15, 2005

Ground Cover Optical Illusion Art

We have all heard of the following figures of speech, "ground cover", "a bed of roses", or "a blanket of snow". Well Larry Carlson, a visionary multi media artist has converted this speech into art in the following two images. Sleep in Ground© Larry...

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Six or Seven Cubes?

This optical illusion is very curious. Look at it and count the number of cubes you see.Did you come up with six or seven cubes?This optical illusion causes us to change our perception, as you look at this image the black tiles will change from being...

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Pierced Ambiguous Rings Optical Illusion

The following 3-d optical Illusion was created by Zsolt M. Kovacs-Vajna a professor at the University of Brescia in Brescia Italy.We have seen the Ambiguous Ring and Impossibly Linked Ambiguous Rings by Donald E. Simanek, but try and wrap your brain...

Monday, July 11, 2005

Tornado - Rainbow Optical Illusion?

This is a fascinating image below. When I first saw it I was impressed by what I thought was a good photoshop creation. What do you think is the truth of this image? Credit: Eric Nguyen (Oklahoma U.), www.mesoscale.wsAs it turns out this is an...

Saturday, July 9, 2005

Dartboard Optical Illusion

I found the below on a site called Art Effects, their slogan is "We Put The Trick, In The Trompe Of Trompe L'Oeil"Here is are two niches in a game room.Take a look at both the Dartboard and the scoring tablet above. Both of these are painted on the...

Friday, July 8, 2005

Taylor Hall Optical Illusion

The below optical illusion was created by John Pugh, he is an artist that does excellent trompe l'oeil (French for trick the eye) murals. The below is from "Chico Statements" a magazine published twice a year for alums, parents, faculty, staff, and friends...

Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Tilting Table Optical Illusion

Check out the Optical Illusion below.You all know that if it did tilt down to the right that it would probably not be displayed here in this gallery of illusions.Even though we all know that all horizontal lines in the image below are perfectly level...

Pennywise Illusion

Here is an illusion of a different type.I was talking to a friend of mine that has taken up coin collecting rather late in life. He figures it will be cheaper then getting married again. Anyways he went into a coin dealer he knows to talk shop and came...

Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Pacman Optical Illusion

This is an amazing optical illusion.I found this illusion on several sites on the internet. One semi-popular link farm spent 6 pages of comments discussing this optical illusion. Many were confused about what this optical illusion was all about so let's...

Sunday, July 3, 2005

Pope or Devil Optical Illusion

The recent installation of Pope Benedict XVI gave rise to numerous stories in newspapers across the world. There were literally thousands of photos used by various news services.Imagine the surprise of many faithful Catholics in New York when they saw...

Saturday, July 2, 2005

Coca-Cola 600 Optical Illusion

One of the readers (Andy Marsh) of Optical Illusions Etc... was at the Cola-Cola 600 NASCAR race a few weekends back. While there he saw something amazing.Yes, I know Jimmy Johnson's win at the end was an amazing finish, but that was no optical illusion...

Sunset Optical Illusion

I was surfing the vast wasteland of blogs a couple of weeks back, looking for optical illusions when I came across this sunset. It was included in a post titled Standing 'O'. This was one of those days when those gathered to watch the sunset were rewarded...

Friday, July 1, 2005

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor - Justice William Rehnquist Optical Illusion

Occasionally something in the news jars my memory. Sandra Day O'Conner announced her retirement today. This caused me to remember that this optical illusion was laying around my hard drive.Here we have an optical illusion of two justices of the Supreme...

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