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Knowledge

A bit of knowledge on optical illusions. Or scroll down to see what you came for.

Bezold effect fabric

Bezold Effect

Rainbows are illusions

Types of Optical Illusions

Locomotives in their natural habitat

Pareidolia (Seeing faces)

Most Awesome Illusions

Screw hole

In this grate optical illusion, the shadow doesn't match up with the object

Grate Optical Illusion

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

concave and convex

The same image

Ice Cube sitting in a round-backed chair looking like he is raising his backend in the air.

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Mimetolith

Green Kong

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Strained Expression

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Shades of sheep in pens look like dried beans in this drone photo.

Assorted Dried Beans

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

This eye of the tower is watching over Verona, from the 84 meter high Torre dei Lamberti.

The eye of the tower

This deformed building is a temporary art installation to hide renovation work

Deformed Building

This fungus is named Xylaria polymorpha, but more commonly known as dead man's fingers. This example is a perfect illusion, with 5 digits and more shaped like a hand than other specimens. It really looks like a zombie is going to rise up from the ground.

Dead Man’s Fingers

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Music notes

Music Notes

This photo is not a composite, but rather zoomed in until it is hard to recognize what you are seeing. The orange color on the right is a retaining wall.

Separation

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Body art parrot

Parrot

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

This is an optical illusion artwork by Kostya Terentev. Filmed from directly above, you can see only the shadows of the people.

Shadow Avatars

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

This photo was taken in Kazakhstan and quickly named 'Eye of God' by people online. Obviously, this is just a case of pareidolia.

Eye of God

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

This is the volcano Mount Etna in Sicily erupting. The bright lava against an almost invisible mountain looks like a Phoenix (or Mutalisk)

Phoenix rising

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

The underwater waterfall in Mauritius is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Underwater Waterfall

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Magic Sword

This optical illusion of a skywalker is actually a man jumpping in the Dnipro river in Kiev.

Skywalker

This is Cascada la Novia (Waterfall of the Bride), a cascade in Peru.

Bride Waterfall

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

This optical illusion of an ominous bird is actually a moth orchid

Ominous bird

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

This skull optical illusion was created for the Penny Dreadful Season 3 poster.

Skull

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Screaming up or down?

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

These big women in Paris are a perfect example of Forced Perspective

Big women

Floating cat head

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

The man on the left is not standing in the water next to the boat. He is sitting with his friends in the boat.

Next to the boat

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

God of all cats

God of all Cats

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses