Some people may react to this anomalous motion optical illusion and if you think you might be one of these people it is important to read the caution at the top of this page prior to proceeding.
This optical Illusion is the creation of Herman J. Verwaal of Exloo, Netherlands. This is an amazing illusion the two halfs keep trying to pull apart from each other.
Herman J. Verwaal
copyright 2005
used w/permission
Herman has a large collection of optical illusions that he has created over time. He has generously allowed me to feature a few of his pieces here. This is the fourth (
here is the first,
second and the
third) of many. I love the constantly expanding image. His illusions run the gambit and I will be showing you more of his excellent Trick-Art in the future.
Is it my imagination or is she pulling herself out of this photo through shear strength of will? (via)
Here is the Nix Professional Building that sits on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. It was completed in 1931 and was the first hospital in a skyscraper, and the only hospital with doctor's offices, hospital beds, and a parking garage all in one building.
Because of the building's sharp angles, the view from the Riverwalk presents an optical illusion that the facing wall is two-dimensional. The building's shape is in the form of an "L". The south side of the building is cut off diagonally by the riverwalk which runs through the building's block creating the illusion of a flat wall from the perspective of the river.
The internet is fascinating, I went all the way to a person in New Zealand to obtain a picture of a building in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
This is a lovely illusion or is it? Has anyone ever seen a tree like this before?
Please let me know how you think this unretouched photo was made to look like this beautiful tree.
Some people may react to this anomalous motion optical illusion and if you think you might be one of these people it is important to read the caution at the top of this page prior to proceeding.
Earlier, I started a series by Miwa Miwa who very generously granted me permission to feature his work here. The below image is called Cycle Race and has an illusion of motion.
Thanks Miwa for sharing your illusions with us.
Cycle Race(c) miwa miwa 2005Used w/permission
Some people may react to this anomalous motion optical illusion and if you think you might be one of these people it is important to read the caution at the top of this page prior to proceeding.
This optical Illusion is the creation of Herman J. Verwaal of Exloo, Netherlands. This is an amazing illusion that keeps trying to extend beyond its boundries.
Herman J. Verwaal
copyright 2006
used w/permission
Herman has a large collection of optical illusions that he has created over time. He has generously allowed me to feature a few of his pieces here. This is the third (
here is the first and the
second) of many. I love the constantly expanding image. His illusions run the gambit and I will be showing you more of his excellent Trick-Art in the future.
"This is a photo of a Plasma Light, mirrored five times, then made into a Kaleidoscope via a little filter via photoshop ! The colours are untouched."
Some people may react to this anomalous motion optical illusion and if you think you might be one of these people it is important to read the caution at the top of this page prior to proceeding.
Below is an optical illusion by Miwa Miwa that actually has four separate illusions in it. Can you spot the 4 different illusions? If you have trouble check the bottom of this post for an explanation of the four illusions.
Thanks Miwa for sharing your illusions with us.
A New Year
(c) miwa miwa 2006Used w/permission Miwa said the following about this illusion:
This work was published in Mainichi Shimbun (newspaper)on the New Year's Day of 2006. It is original for the page "World of the optical illusion". It is an illustration including four kinds of optical illusions.
Two of the illusions are anomalous motion, the sky and the green jacket. The sky is also an example of the
Spiral illusion, do you see a spiral or is it really multiple concentric circles? The dogs Jacket is the fourth illusion and an example of the
Scintillating Grid optical illusion. Look close, how many black spots do you see?
Like the original Kanizsa triangle introduced by Gaetano Kanizsa, an Italian psychologist. Here is another Kanizsa Girl. The basis of the Kanizsa illusion is that we perceive what is not there based on what is there. First we perceive a triangle on the left then a square on the right even though they don't exist.
Now many of us will look at the below image and perceive the woman that may have been in this bed based on what we see even though she isn't there. This was from the
Imaginary Girl group on Flickr.
Fractals are part of the Etc... in Optical Illusions Etc..., no photoshop used in the creation of the piece below. I love the illusion of infinity that this picture evokes.
Fractal laptop
Originally uploaded by To Be Or Not To Be.The artist explains his piece here:
Traveling from Missouri to Virginia, I stopped for the night at a hotel. I was really bored, so I started experimenting.
This is from the dark ages, by the way.. Sony Mavica floppy disk based camera & a Pentium II 266 laptop.. heh. heh.
So, anyway. I would take a picture of the laptop, swap floppy disks, display the latest photo on the laptop, and take another picture of the laptop, and so on.
Some people may react to this anomalous motion optical illusion and if you think you might be one of these people it is important to read the caution at the top of this page prior to proceeding.
This is the first time this illusion has been seen anywhere outside of the artist's home. Herman J. Verwaal was nice enough to think of me and my little home on the net to release this excellent optical illusion for public view for the first time.
The eagles in this image appear to fly in a clockwise direction.
Herman J. Verwaal
copyright 2006
used w/permission
Herman has a large collection of optical illusions that he has created over time. He has generously allowed me to feature a few of his pieces here. This is the second (
here is the first) of many. I love the motion of the eagles. His illusions run the gambit and I will be showing you more of his excellent Trick-Art in the future.
Thank you Herman for allowing me to share this with my viewers.
Some people may react to this anomalous motion optical illusion and if you think you might be one of these people it is important to read the caution at the top of this page prior to proceeding.
Tuesday I started a series by Miwa Miwa who very generously granted me permission to feature his work here. The below image is called Watermelons and has an illusion of motion.
More of his work will be presented as we move forward.
Watermelons
(c) miwa miwa 2005Used w/permission
This was pointed out to me by an anonymous commenter. I contacted the photographer and he graciously permitted me to use this here. Check out Steve Chabot's other photos on flickr.
It appears that the law of physics don't work the same on this spot of earth. Maybe it is one of those mystery spots that tourists flock to every year. All I know for sure is this image hasn't been manipulated in any way.
Thanks Steve for a great photo.
Miwa was nice enough to allow me to show his work here.
This illusion doesn't take much setup. Could you construct this alphabet out of wood?
Some people may react to this anomalous motion optical illusion and if you think you might be one of these people it is important to read the caution at the top of this page prior to proceeding.
The birds in this image appear to fly in a counter-clockwise direction.
Herman J. Verwaal
copyright 2005
used w/permission
Herman has a large collection of optical illusions that he has created over time. He has generously allowed me to feature a few of his pieces here. This is the first I chose to show because I love the motion of the birds. His illusions run the gambit and I will be showing you more of his excellent Trick-Art in the future.
Thank you Herman for allowing me to share this with my viewers.
Absolutely Amazing! Remember the below drawing is just chalk on the pavement.
Julian Beever has made pavement drawings for over ten years. This drawing is the best illusion of a recent batch posted on his site.
Keep repeating to yourself, "There is no hose and he isn't squirting any water." Also don't forget that the drain doesn't exist either.
Waste of Water
Check out this optical illusion shirt. (Found on Neatorama)
I love dual view images. My sister sent me the following in email.
Currently I am not aware of their origin. Update: I have positively identified the artist of the bottom two paintings. If anyone recognizes the top (Good/Evil) work please let me know so I can give the artist proper credit.
Can you see the evil residing inside the good?
It drives home visually the point that good can't exist without evil or is it the other way around.
"Optical Illusion"
John Langdon
Copyright 1999
Can you see why this oil painting is called optical illusion?
"Us"
John Langdon
Copyright Date unknown
Can you tell why this painting is titled "Us"?
If you know of other dual view illusions point me in the right direction so we can all see them.
Answer this simple question. Is the circle:
1. Half way up the pyramid?
2. Above half way up the pyramid?
3. Below half way up the pyramid?
At this point many viewing this optical illusion pause. They know it wouldn't be an optical illusion if it wasn't different then it seems.
At first glance (even second and third glance) the circle appears above the point that is half way up the pyramid. The truth is though the circle is exactly at the half way point.
Feel free to pull the ruler out and measure for yourself.
I figure if I'm starting up posting again there is no better place to start then with a creation by Zsolt. He has been a faithful viewer of this blog and he was the first to comment on the fact that I was going to be starting up posting again. Thanks for the encouragement Zsolt.
The following 3-D optical Illusion was created by Zsolt M. Kovacs-Vajna a professor at the University of Brescia in Brescia Italy.
Used w/permission © Zsolt M. Kovacs-Vajna 2005
What you are looking at are 8 identical impossible triangles floating in space. Only the near and far triangles look like the typical illusion. The others look distorted because we are viewing them from a bad perspective (see other impossible triangles
here,
here,
here and
here).
Still having trouble wrapping your head around this image play
this 3-D video. Hopefully the video will shed some light on the image.
Well my hiatus from this blog is over and regular posting will begin again.
This optical illusion was pointed out to me by my 9 year old son. He found it in an I Spy book and noticed and illusionary aspect to it. Here is an image similar to the one he drew to show me. This image is often presented in this view with a comment asking if one piece is missing from this pie/cake/cheese or is an extra piece jutting out from the pie/cake/cheese.
Image borrowed from Planet Perplex
But my son saw more. He took the image and flipped it upside down and he noticed that when viewed this way something seemed different.
What was different was when viewed this way instead of looking like one piece was eaten it appears that only one piece of pie/cake/cheese remains in the dish. This is the first time I have ever heard this take on this illusion and thus named it after my son for his keen observational skill.
It is good to be back again, I hope you all will forgive me the absence.
