optical illusions
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This Is (Officially) The Best Illusion Of The Year
It’s no David Copperfield, but in this day and age surely that’s a good thing? Winner of the Best Illusion of the Year contest, this moving circle of dots tricks the eye into seeing changing colour even when they’re not.
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An Optical Illusion Bookshelf: Are There 3 Or 4 Shelves?
Using inspiration from the impossible fork, ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects built this optical illusion bookshelf. The shelf looks cartoony and almost invisible but that’s not even the real illusion, the real mind bender is that there are what seems like 4 shelves on the left side but only 3 shelves on the right side. Whoa. [Neatorama]
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Watch Escher’s Impossible Perpetual Motion Waterfall Brought To Life
The water runs uphill, drops back down, spins a wheel, and runs right back up hill again. For perspective-bending artist M.C. Escher, that vision this carefully sketched lithograph.