optical illusions
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This Entire Website Is One Fascinating And Dead Simple Optical Illusion
Ah the power of simple black lines. When a sheet of black lines is dragged over a still image, the images will suddenly appear to move: Pac-Man opens his mouth, gears turn, balls fall. Slow Scroll → Have Fun is a single brilliant site that harnesses the power of your mouse to tickle your eyeballs.
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Scientists Make Objects ‘Invisible’ With A Tricky Optical Illusion
Invisibility is perhaps the most ubiquitous of sci-fi dreams: Spy movies, video games, and classic cartoons all tantalise us with this trick. Researchers at the University of Rochester still haven’t unlocked the secret to that elusive invisibility cloak either, I’m afraid. But they made a very cool optical illusion that looks the part.
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You Won’t Know What’s Real Or What’s Fake In This Baffling Printer Ad
Apparently, the best way to sell printers isn’t by boasting about its features, colour fidelity or DPI. It’s by blowing our minds with a bunch of optical illusions that leave us wondering if anything in our lives is actually real, or just a printed ruse.
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The Best Optical Illusions Of 2014 Are Truly Mind-Bending
Each year, the Neural Correlate Society holds a contest among experts on perception and visual illusions. The top ten entries get selected by a panel, and the three best are then picked in an international gathering that I imagine as some sort of wizards convention. Here are are the winners.