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These Optical Illusions Require A Second Look

This reality-bending optical illusion will make you question everything

It’s a perfect take on the classic trompe-l’œil.

Try Not To Trip Over These Optical Illusions

Only 2% of people can spot hidden image in this tricky optical illusion brain teaser

An optical illusion brain teaser by Ukrainian artist Oleg Shupliak has resurfaced online, with claims only 2% of people can find all four hidden women — can you beat the odds?

These ingenious optical illusions are hiding in some of our favourite games

Indie devs reveal the graphics tricks that make game design easier and more efficient.

This perplexing optical illusion is making me question what a horse looks lke

I can’t understand what I’m seeing.

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Tools for Possibilities: issue no. 197

Viral artist makes 'magic' illusions using a mind-blowing combination of famous landmarks, staged sets and visual effect...

Zach King is the master of modern visual illusion artistry.

Persuasive Illusions and When Seeing Isn’t Believing

The psychology of expectations and hopes, and how they distort what’s true.

Mirrors, lights and optical tricks: Julio Le Parc at Tate Modern

Julio Le Parc's dazzling world of mirrors, optical illusions and kinetic light sculptures proves that contemporary art can be joyful, accessible and genuinely entertaining.Read mor...

Why You Might See Patterns When You Close Your Eyes

The illusions “may or may not be” a sign of medical issues, Cleveland Clinic says ― though Healthline assures us that, “Closed-eye hallucinations aren’t typically a cause for conce...

Pure Visual Magic: 35 Mind-Bending Forced Perspective Photos by Hugo Suíssas

Some photographers capture what’s in front of them. Hugo Suíssas turns reality into a visual joke you can’t stop staring at. That’s the charm of these 35 forced perspective photos....

This optical illusion font was created to baffle AI, and it actually works (for now)

Try Ghost Font to see if it works for you.

That’s…. Not What It Looks Like

This Javelin Thrower Looks Like He is Impaling Himself in Crazy Optical Illusion Photo

At first glance, it seems as if something has gone disastrously wrong for this javelin thrower. Fortunately, Estonian athlete Magnus Kirt is safe and well; the image is actually a...

Artist Rich McCor Turns Famous Landmarks Into Playful Optical Illusions With Nothing But Paper

Rich McCor is a Brighton-based artist and photographer who has figured out how to make the entire world look like a playful joke. His method is brilliantly simple: he takes black p...

A crystal with two optical faces shows one of the strongest light-bending effects seen in a natural material

Atomic-scale MoOCl2 bends light with record strength, enabling ultrathin optics for smart contact lenses, AR glasses, and invisible wearables.

There's A Reason Why You Might See Patterns When You Close Your Eyes

It turns out there are reasons behind the phenomenon.One of my favourite YouTube blunders is from creator Brittany Broski, who complained to drag queen Trixie Mattel (busy giving t...

There's A Reason Why You Might See Patterns When You Close Your Eyes

It turns out there are reasons behind the phenomenon.One of my favourite YouTube blunders is from creator Brittany Broski, who complained to drag queen Trixie Mattel (busy giving t...

Toyo Ito's Expo Hall "Shining Hat" looks like a portal opening in the sky

This structure called Expo Hall, or "Shining Hat", creates a stunning optical illusion in the sky. The top of the structure makes it look like a giant portal has opened in the atmo...