Category: Optical illusion

  • Water + fluo + strobo = optical illusions

    Put some fluorescent dye in water, let water droplets go and synchronize a stroboscopic light. You can get anyhting you want and it looks like magic. YouTube link

  • Black and white or Color (video illusion)

    One very cool optical illusion of a fade to black… and white. YouTube link And there’s another one very similar but with a different image: a waterfall.

  • MC Escher in video

    MC Escher in video

    Graphic artist and painter MC Escher produced a few very interesting paintings and engravings. But today, I give you the opportunity to see it differently. Bring on the video! Source: Magic Design.

  • Droste effect

    Droste effect

    In the year 1956, “the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title ‘Print Gallery’. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in.” The term was coined by…

  • Mad architecture

    Mad architecture

  • Slanted illusion

    Slanted illusion

    Straight lines are actually really parallels. It’s your brain trying to convince you they’re not.

  • Great coins for Great Britain

    Great coins for Great Britain

    “You’ve got to love those coins!” Do you believe that I could tell you so? Surely not. Even better, you can be surprised to learn that I found that in a web site about design and arts (Baekdal.com). And it is defintely a great design for something as old as coins. The new UK coins…

  • Lego optical illusion

    Lego optical illusion

    It took all the art of bbzippo, some Lego bricks and some Photoshop editing, too.

  • Disappearing car doors: Real or fake?

    If you go to the web site setup by Jatec-LLC, disappearing-car-door.com, you will see a revolutionary kind of sliding door for your car. But is it real or fake?