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Optical Illusionist
is a blog and gallery site dedicated to providing a stunning
selection of mind boggling optical illusions, eye
tricks, mind puzzles and other teasers. You
can find everything here from impossible objects to
anamorphic street art and everything in between.Can you see through
all the optical illusions on this site ? Try referring a
friend here and see how they get on, not all the
illusions are as easy to crack as they appear.
Please
also leave us your thoughts on each of the illusions we
feature and check back often for updates, new illusions
will be added on a regular basis so keep us
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3D Illusions | Afterimages | Double Meanings | Illusion Art | Impossible Objects Moving Images | Photo Manipulations | Shape and Color Size and Distance |Shadows and Mirrors |
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Category: 3D Illusions Square and Cross Room Added on July 2, 2009 | 0 comments
What you are looking at here is not Photoshopped and neither is it the result of a sheet of clear material that's been painted. The lines are painted on the walls in such a way so as to create the appearance of a perfect square with a cross through the middle when viewed from one specific point in the room.
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Category: Afterimages Color Dove Illusion Added on June 21, 2009 | 1 comment
In this illusion try staring at the dot at the center of the dove. When you move your eyes away you should see the afterimage of a red dove on a white background.
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Category: Shape and Color Fraser Spiral Illusion Added on June 19, 2009 | 2 comments
Developed by psychologist James Fraser in 1908, the Fraser Illusion appears to be a spiral pattern converging in the distant center with a black, white and grey chequered background. In reality the spirals are not really spirals at all but a series of concentric circles, the background gives the illusion that the circles are spiralled.
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Category: 3D Illusions Bjorn Borg Hollow Face Added on June 17, 2009 | 0 comments
This picture of Bjorn Borg created and used in experiments at Uppsala University in Sweden appears to be convex in that it is raised outwards from the frame towards you. In reality the image is actually concave, it is pushed inwards away from you. This type of illusion is known as the 'hollow-face illusion'.
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Category: Moving Images Pulsing Vortex Added on June 15, 2009 | 2 comments
Here's another illusion that seems to move, the image is completely stationary however when you look at it there appears to be a pulsing effect. Its a bit like a large booming speaker, imagine some loud, low notes being blasted out at you from the screen.
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Category: Double Meanings Towels Dog Added on June 13, 2009 | 4 comments
Here's a picture of a pile of towels being used as a pillow by another pile of towels.. or is it a dog ? This cute little bundle of folds is actually a shar-pei puppy, he looks so much like the towel that you could almost mistaken him for one. Just don't put him in the washing machine by accident.
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Category: 3D Illusions Bottomless Elevator Added on June 11, 2009 | 2 comments
Here's a trick to play on someone, take one elevator and paint the bottom of it with an anamorphic illusion to make it look as though it has no floor. This fellow doesn't want to stand on it and I don't blame him, the 'hole' looks so real its hard to tell that its only an illusion. Would you stand on there ?
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Category: Shadows and Mirrors Shadow Street Added on June 9, 2009 | 0 comments
This one is quite confusing, what part of this picture consists of shadows and which of solid figures ? If you aren't sure, try looking at it upside-down.
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Category: Shadows and Mirrors Lunch With A Helmet On Added on June 9, 2009 | 2 comments
Another illusion from Shigeo Fukuda, in this one he's welded together 848 knives, forks and spoons to produce an object the shadow cast from which forms the perfect shape of a motorcycle on the ground.
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Category: Shadows and Mirrors Shadow Couple Added on June 9, 2009 | 1 comment
This piece of art by Shigeo Fukuda is little more than a pile of garbage but amazingly the shadow cast on the back wall from the trash shows the image of a couple relaxing with a cigarette and glass of wine.
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