What are some great optical illusions?

 1. . Try to focus on one of the two “faces”. Your brain doesn’t know which “face” is real :-

2. Find the map of India :-

3. Flip your phone towards 90° left :-

4. Look closely :-

5. Mexican studio Golpeavisa made a portrait of René Redzepi (the world’s best chef) out of food :-

6. Body painting art by Craig Tracy :-

7. A work by Japanese artist Makoto Aida titled AZEMICHI (a path between rice fields) :-

8. Perfectly timed photo of the full moon rising through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games :-

9. Find out who is who :-

10. Illusive floor to walk :-

11. Animal Head :-

This is an optical illusion which is being made by a very famous artist to create a very scary effect by combining different animal images and placing them to form a human face.

12. Hawk :-

Don't think so much. It's a Palm art.

One more

13. Snake or Crocodile :-

14. Look at the man on the horse and find out how artist portray that :-

15. Absent of a Mermaid :-

16. How many faces can you see on this picture?

There should be 11 faces on this picture. Average people see 4-6, sensible 8-10. The best see all 11, schizophrenics and paranoids 12 and more. And you?

17. Fraser Spiral :-

First described by British psychologist James Fraser in 1908, this illusion is also known as the “false spiral”. While it appears that the overlapping arcs are spiraling into infinity they are in fact only a series of concentric circles.

18. Endless Staircase :-

This is a variation of the endless staircase optical illusion constructed out of legos. Like the the blivet, this is also an impossible object and is sometimes called the “Penrose triangle”.

19. Power of an art :-

20. DALI ILLUSION :-

Profile of Salvador Dali and a strange woman. Head of the female figure is also eye on the big face.

21. DON QUIJOTE :-

How many faces can you count on this Don Quijote painting by Octavio Ocampo?

22. 7 FACES :-

23. Magic of Barack Obama :-

24. This painting is called "Optical Illusion" - literally - you can see those 2 words there (by John Langdon) :-

What are some great optical illusions?

 Illusions challange us to great critical thinking.

They are designed to play with our minds and nerves.

Here are some cool optical illusions:

1. Ebbinghaus Illusion

Tell me what orange circle looks bigger?

Right one?

What if I told you, they are the same size!

This illusion takes advantage of our perception of relative size. The circle above is surrounded by larger circles, making it seem like it’s smaller than a same sized circle with smaller circles around it.

2. Spiral Illusion

Are the circles touching? Are they Spirals?

It looks like they are crossing over one another. But they are not !

Peripheral vision does not accurately keep track of all the visual details, and so in some situations like in this illusion, the visual system makes errors. Amusing. Isn't it.

3. "3D" Kitchen

At first glance, this looks like a normal newspaper, right?

Creative director Felipe Salazar and graphic designer Karen Castaneda recently turned a newspaper into an ad for supermarket.

In reality paper is completely flat.

4. Check out this park inside Paris, it looks like a 3D globe

This is a 3D illusion that uses perspective and carefully planned out design to create the illusion.

Take a view from another angle.

Mind behind: Francois Abelanet and Team.

6. Penrose Stairs

In this two dimensional image, the four paths of stairs appear to link together so that a climber would go up or down the steps in a continuous loop but never arrive at a higher or lower point.

Remember, Inception!

Christopher Nolan is a genius!

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What are some great optical illusions?

 The optical illusion at its best.

Hope this amazes you.

1.The Ponzo Illusion: Which Car is the biggest?

They are the IDENTICAL! Take a ruler and measure. I dare you.

The Ponzo illusion is created by our brain judging an object’s size based by its perceived distance. The brain places the car into context with it’s surroundings. The third car is furhter away ( in perspective) so therefore it appears to look larger.

2.Stare at the woman’s nose for about 10 seconds. Then look at a lighter surface, like a wall, and blink rapidly. Her face should now have color!

3. At first glance, these women look very attractive…

Flip the image over and you’ll see something completely demonic!

Why didn’t you see the creepy faces before!? Well, you can blame your brains function dedicated to face recognition and perception. Think about it, we hardly ever run into upside down faces. So it’s hard to spot differences when we do.

4.Are the Horizontal lines Straight or Crooked?

A Great line optical illusion that strategically places black and white tiles to distort your peripheral vision that make the lines appear to be crooked.

5.Check out this park inside Paris, it looks like a gigantic 3D globe…

But it’s actually completely flat.

This is a 3D illusion that uses perspective and carefully planned out design to create the illusion only at a specific vantage point.

6.Tell me what orange circle looks bigger?

What if I told you, they are the same size!

I like to call this the contrast illusion, but it’s better known as the Ebbinghaus illusion. This illusion takes advantage of our perception of relative size. The circle above is surrounded by larger circles, making it seem like it’s smaller than a same sized circle with smaller circles around it.

7.Take a close look at the squares below. The two squares, are actually the same exact color. Don’t believe me? Hold your finger over the crease between the two squares to prove yourself wrong!

This is called the Cornsweet illusion, which takes advantage of the brain’s lateral inhibition that creates more contrast between the two squares when the edges have different colors.

8. If you cross your eyes, you will see a very familiar face. Who do you see?

The above image is a dot illusion of Michael Jackson. At the image becomes smaller. it’s easier to notice the effect.

9.Akiyoshi Kitaoka creates images from geometric shapes that appear to move. Due to how the colors and geometry is set up, the image tricks the brain into thinking that it’s moving when it’s completely motionless.

Here is a more psychedelic illusion using the same principle.

10.This is a pretty cool face illusion! Intersecting two images, a portrait and a profile picture.

Which one are you looking at? The side of front?

11.Are the circles touching? Are they Spirals?

12.Can you believe it that the depth of the lake is 370 ft ?!! A natural optical illusion, Flathead Lake is so clear that it creates the perception that it is very shallow.

13.A 3D room that has been painted to make it look like people are floating on air.

14. Which of these two tables is longer or are they both the same size? Take out a ruler to measure the long side of both tables. The answer may surprise you

15.Look at the image on the left: Does the black line seem to line up with the blue line?

In actuality, the black line is lined up with the red one, as revealed in the image on the right.Named after Johann Poggendorff, a German physicist who first described this illusion in 1860, the Poggendorff illusion reveals how our brains perceive depths and geometric shapes, but the cause of this optical illusion has not yet been adequately explained.