(YouTube link) This is what you get when you...  ...be link) This is what you get when you combine optical illusions

Remember our post about the "magnetic slope&q...  ...ber our post about the "magnetic slope" illusion that won the 2010 Illusion of the Year competition?Well, the maker of that optical illusion , math professor Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji Institu...

(YouTube link) First, watch the video. Then come back and read the rest of this description. J.W. Suchow and G.A. Alvarez studied how motion affected awareness of color change in their research on change blindness. Tr...

Remember the optical illusion of the spinning silhouette which spins clockwise...  ...left- or right-brained. When shown the silhouette illusion , the study's 24 participants most often reported...

Image: Duncan CaldwellIs the carving above the old...  ...e: Duncan CaldwellIs the carving above the oldest optical illusion ever made? Amateur archaeologist Duncan Caldwell...  ...meeting this requirement and being an intentional illusion isn't on a cave wall, but on a carving from a spe...

(YouTube link) The structure of your individu...  ...idual brain has a lot to do with how you perceive optical illusions . Researchers at University College London asked s...  ...College London asked subjects how they perceived illusions of size such as the one used in this video, and t...  ...of somebody's v...

Dark Roasted Blend has a very nifty gallery of som...  ...d has a very nifty gallery of some of the neatest optical illusions you'll see today. I particularly like this one ab...  ...today. I particularly like this one above, Shadow Illusion by Francis Tabary - a set of hanging letters whic...

How do you keep cars from zooming too fast in a cr...  ...in a crowded parking lot? How about an anamorphic optical illusion ?In Vancouver, the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation...  ...ty group Preventable have teamed up and placed an optical illusion of a little girl chasing a ball down the street i...

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We've previously featured the optical illusions of artist Leando Erlich. One that we've missed i...