Moving Mobius Strip

Below is an animated Mobius Strip. I can imagine this being used in an assembly plant somewhere in the States.Picture it, chocolates coming off of the Mobius conveyer with Ethel and Lucy manning the packing stations at the chocolate factory.What is a...

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Hydrogen Side-effect Illusion

Sci-Art Bloggers Friday FavoritesThey said the only product of a hydrogen powered automobile is water. But I never imagined it would be this much. I guess it takes a lot of hydrogen to move a car.On the plus side sales of umbrellas and raincoats should...

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Fractal Spiral Poster Art

If you didn't read the caution above please do so now.I found this optical illusion on a poster art site. For it's size it has a lot of motion in it.Now picture this in a 2' x 3' size.At that size I would recommend the standard at least one foot on...

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Land Shark Optical Illusion

The cleverest species of them all. This was featured in the Economist Magazine article titled "Top Ten Signs" and was a finalist for an Epica Award in 2003.All this time I thought the "Land Shark" skits on Saturday Night Live were just comic fun. Little...

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Frog Spawn Optical Illusion Art

The below image was created by Julian MacDonald. Julian said that this piece was "inspired by M C Escher's 'Reptiles', this is meant to be an image of a painting 'spawning' frogs - while the artist disappears for a cup of coffee, the frogs come out and...

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Plumber's Vehicle Trompe l'oeil Illusion

Sci-Art Bloggers Friday FavoritesThis is a fun optical illusion. Have you ever seen something similar in your travels?If you have seen an illusion like this around your town snap a picture and e-mail it to me. Well this is early in the formation of...

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The Global Consciousness Project

Has science discovered a peek into the future? Real or Illusion?WikipediaThe Global Consciousness Project is one of the most significant of current research projects into parapsychology. Based at Princeton, the project researches into the theory that...

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Real Model Triangle or Optical Illusion?

I don't know where I acquired this but it is a fascinating impossible figure. It looks like a real photo.... I have seen photos of other impossible triangles and understand how one can be made then photographed from a particular angle to look real, but...

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How Many Meteors Do You See?

Another great optical illusion effect. Here we see a photo of the Perseids Meteor shower that is phenomenal.I would marvel at photos like this and think that he must have very special equipment or be at very high altitude to see this many meteors in...

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Illusion in the Night Sky

Last night was the peak of this years Perseid meteor shower. Below is a photo taken 3 years ago of the same shower that was concurrent with and exceptional display of northern lights. This was featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day on August 15,...

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DVD Rewinder Illusion

Sci-Art Bloggers Friday FavoritesI think that this is a great illusion. What do you think? Should I hunt down a supplier and start selling these from the yet to be formed Optical Illusions Etc... store? Don't be fooled, only DVDs with writing on one...

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Pen & Ink, Collage Optical Illusions

The below photo is of artist Noli Novak creating a self portrait of herself using the stipple technique first created by Kevin Sprouls working for the Wall Street Journal in 1979.Read the following from the Smithsonian Institute: National Portrait GalleryThe...

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Hand Art Optical Illusions

Many of us have seen optical illusions created by body painting before. I have hesitated to place these here before because I didn't know who the artist was or what they were created for. Well I have finally found the origin of these photos.These illusions...

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Wacky Squares Optical Illusion

I found this image on a rather large optical illusion site.The interesting thing wasn't the below illusion, but the fact that they just didn't get it. They had this wonderful description of how this wasn't an illusion but was just distorted squares reminiscent...

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Shyster Optical Illusion

This is an interesting illusion. My question is would you trust this man? You may have noticed by the title that I wouldn't trust this man.Created by Paul AguleFor those that are unfamiliar with the term Shyster here is a short definition:Shyster \Shy"ster\,...

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The Mammoth Camera

Sci-Art Bloggers Friday FavoritesThe Mammoth Camera of George R. Lawrence Well this is early in the formation of the Sci-Art bloggers. A group that frequently covers that area where art and science overlap. Below are some postings from our members that...

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Make Poverty History Optical Illusion

Here is another masterpiece by Julian Beever. Julian says that this "drawing was requested by Live8 to support the pressure campaign on the G8 in Edinburgh. It was done in Edinburgh City Centre."Look at the people next to the image. Judging by the girl...

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American Flag Optical Illusion

I was wandering around the web looking for a way to share this site with more people and came across the American Flag League. This is a blog alliance that the only requirement to get on the list is to have an American Flag on your site. So I thought...

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Face in the Beans Optical Illusion

According to Mr. Peabody it takes the average person 10 X 1.618 seconds to discover the face in the beans below.The image below "Sweet caffeine" is from the "Subtle Changes 2" photoshop contest on Worth1000. Can you find the face hiding in the beans?...

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Perceived Distance Optical Illusion

Below is an optical illusion that seems simple enough.Which distance is longer? Is the distance between the tips of the first two opposing triangles pointing away from each other (A-B) on the left longer? Or is the distance between the points of the...

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