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Knowledge

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

Rainbows are illusions

Types of Optical Illusions

Locomotives in their natural habitat

Pareidolia (Seeing faces)

sorrowful rock face pareidolia

How do optical illusions work?

Most Awesome Illusions

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

$This optical illusion by Alexandre Meneghini of two women with big bottoms swimming in Cuba in 2015 is a classis example of refraction.$

Big bottoms

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Music notes

Music Notes

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

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

Strained Expression

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

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

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

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

Skull

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

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

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

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

Underwater Waterfall

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Sand bear

Sand Bear

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

Footprint in the sand

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

concave and convex

The same image

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

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

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Screw hole

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Screaming up or down?

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

Mimetolith

Green Kong

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

Body art parrot

Parrot

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

Deformed Building

Floating cat head

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

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

Big women

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

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

Skywalker

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

deflated dog

Deflated dog

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

Ominous bird

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

Shadow Avatars

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

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

Bride Waterfall

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

The eye of the tower

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

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

Assorted Dried Beans

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

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Just a door in the middle of a beautiful scene, makes the background look like a giant wall with a live wallpaper.

Live Wallpaper

Magic Sword