The Disappearing Dots Optical Illusion is actually animated and has a very cool effect. This Optical Illusion was designed by Jeremy L Hinton of Bristol
Closely watch the Black + in the center of the circle, you will start to see a green dot circling and the pink dots will start to slowly disappear, if you move your head slightly the dots will start coming back.
Dr. Angry and Mr. Smile Optical Illusion: The face on the left appears angry the one on the left is calm and happy.
What to do: Slowly move away from the computer screen and you should see the faces switch sides. Everyone will get it at a different distance so move back slowly.
Each face is a combination of the two faces the fine detail is what you see up close, when you move away you loose the detail and the raw shapes come out (happy fine detail, angry rough detail) This is based on work by Dr Aude Oliva and Dr Philippe Schyns You can read the original paper here.
Scintillation Grid Optical Illusion
This optical illusion can defiantly mess with your eyes.
This isnt actually animated … or is it? Just try to count the little black dots?
This Creative Optical illusion was created by Tim Noble and Sue Webber. They are partners in life as well as art. Turning piles of Garbage into complex artwork using light and shadows. The first three are the works of Tim and Sue the last one is from an unknown artist.
The Bending Lines Optical Illusion Gives the impression that the red lines are moving as they bend and wave. These static images confuse the brain into thinking its in motion. And yes its is a static jpg not a animated gif so look a little closer and do the wave.
In Escher’s Belvedere Optical Illusion if you look at the beams they cross over from front to back, but how do we know which is the front and which is the back? This is physically impossible in a 3-Dimensional world but in 2d can give an alternate reality. If you notice the piece of paper on the floor (bottom left) shows a 3d cube almost as a clue to the belvedere’s structure. The man on the latter climbs from inside the gate in the lower platform then ends up on the outside above even tho its straight up!
Going up or going down? it doesn’t really matter because you will still end up at the same place! You can take as many steps as you want and end up right back where you started.
The first illusion is Escher’s original ascending and descanting stairs followed by some other recreations (and yes the Lego version too!).
The Escher waterfall Optical Illusion is composed of two beams that rest upon each other at opposite right angles. Escher drew his diagrams in such a way that you could not see a single mistake yet it dose not make sense logically. The water wheel is powered by the falling water, then it flows up to the top and back down to the wheel.
Below is Eschers original waterfall diagram followed by a few recreations, even one created in Lego!
This Dinosaur Stereo Optical illusion is done by taken a picture of the same object at two slightly different angles, when you flip back and forth it gives the object a 3D look.
This Dinosaur has to be one of my favorite Stereo images.
Sunderland Passing Through Optical Illusion was sent in by one of our UK viewers. It was created in 1977 as by the St Peters Riverside Sculpture project, led by Colin Wilbourne.
When viewed from an ordinary angle it just appears to be a skewed sketch on the wall.
But when you find the right angel. The door seems to pop out from the wall.
