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

Billie Eilish drawn in 3D by Stephan Pabst

Anamorphic optical illusions

How to create optical illusion photos (for social media)

Expanding Black Hole Illusion

Mind-blowing facts about optical illusions

Most Awesome Illusions

Mimetolith

Green Kong

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

tree eye

Eye of a tree

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

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

Ominous bird

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Music notes

Music Notes

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

God of all cats

God of all Cats

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

Body art parrot

Parrot

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

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

Skull

hills with trees

Hills and trees

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

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

Assorted Dried Beans

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Sand bear

Sand Bear

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Strained Expression

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

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

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

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Magic Sword

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

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

The eye of the tower

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

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

Big women

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

deflated dog

Deflated dog

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Screw hole

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

Live Wallpaper

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

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

Skywalker

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

concave and convex

The same image

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

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

Shadow Avatars

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

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

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

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

Underwater Waterfall

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

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

Floating cat head

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

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

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

Deformed Building

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

Footprint in the sand

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

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

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished