Fun Stuff - Optical Illusions

Is the left center circle bigger than the right center circle? No, they're the same size.

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Are the horizontal lines parallel or do they slope?

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Count the black dots at the intersections of the gray lines! :o)

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Keep staring at the black dot. After a while the gray haze around it will appear to shrink.

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Do you see the face or an Eskimo?

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How many legs does this elephant have?

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Circular snakes appear to rotate spontaneously.

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The outer ring of rays appears to rotate clockwise while the inner one counterclockwise.

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The inset appears to move.

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The floor appears to bulge out even though all the squares in the figure are equal.

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The center appears to flicker.

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The center appears to move.

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The checkered background consists of squares but appears to wave. In addition, this figure shows a great amount of anomalous motion.

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Concentric gray circles appear to be spirals.

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Rollers appear to rotate.

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Look from center to center of each figure. Do the others appear to rotate?

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While looking around, the structure appears to undulate.

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Concentric circles or a spiral?

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How many complete cubes? 6 or 7?.

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Are the red lines straight or wavy?

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Do you see a valley or a hump around the central spot?

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Do you see waves or just lines.

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Are the vertical lines parallel?

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Is the circle perfectly round?

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Is the shape above a perfect square?

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Are the squares square?

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Are the red lines all parallel?

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How many colors do you see? There are only 3.

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Move your head forward while looking at the center blue circles.

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Do you see a young woman or an old lady?

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Do you see a young woman or an old lady?

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Do you see a vase or two people facing each other?

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Is it a man playing the saxophone or a pretty young woman?

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A man's face or the word liar?

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A duck or a rabbit?

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A donkey or a seal?

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Soldiers on both sides of the war are actually the same fellow upside-down.

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The frog becomes a horse when rotated 90 degrees.

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Can you find all 13 faces?

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Do you see the young couple or a skull?

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How many horses can you find?

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How many deer can you find?

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Houses or people?

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Arches or ships?

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Can you find all 9 faces?

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How many faces can you count on this one?

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How many faces can you find?

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How many wolves can you find?

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An impossible triangle.

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Can you build this impossible room?

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Another impossible figure.

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Another set of impossible triangles.

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An impossible arch.

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Yard or balcony?

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A Waterfall or people?

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The never ending staircase.

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How many legs?

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All 3 men are the same size.

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The 2 monsters are the same size.

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All 3 soldiers are the same size.

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The 2 vertical rectangles are the same size.

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The tops of each of the 4 sided figures are the same size.

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The 2 vertical red lines are the same size.

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Which line is longer, AB or BC?

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Are the purple lines straight or bent?

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Which vertical line is longer?

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Where does the extra space come from?

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How many people do you see? Count again!

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Quite a challenge to do this one quickly.

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I Love Paris In The Springtime - read it again!

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Can you see the word lift?

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The white triangle (above left) seems superimposed on the blue-sided triangle. But upon study, the sides of the white triangle disappear. Its brightness is the same as that of the surrounding white. The illusion doesn't work for most people when blue and magenta are shown at equal luminosity, perhaps because the brain's contour-detecting cells are partly color-blind.

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Do you see the circles at the intersection of the lines?

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Is the cross in the center of the 2 structures the same color? Roll your mouse over the picture to find out.

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Are the 2 squares labeled A and B the same color? Roll your mouse over the picture to find out.

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A dog on a hand.

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An eagle on 2 hands.

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A leopard on a hand.

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Street Illusion - Seal.

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Street Illusion - Well.

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Street Illusion - Insect.

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Street Illusion - Laptop.

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Street Illusion - Artist.

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Street Illusion - Pool.

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Impossible Figure - Bar.

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Impossible Figure - Triangle.

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Impossible Figure - Loop.

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Impossible Figure - Loop and Bar.

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Two Faces - Mr. Angry and Mrs. Calm If you watch the above images from your seat in front of the computer, Mr.Angry is on the left, and Mrs.Calm is on the right. Get up from your seat, and move back about 7 to 12 feet. They switch places! I believe this illusion was created by Phillippe G. Schyns and Aude Oliva of the Univ. of Glasgow.

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Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe Look at this picture of Albert Einstein. Now stand back about 15 feet and look at the picture. It turns into Marilyn Monroe.

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Dragon Illusion - Please click to view the video.

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Face Illusion - Please click to view the video.

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Magnet-Like Slopes Illusion - Please click to view the video.

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