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

How to create optical illusion photos (for social media)

Rainbows are illusions

Types of Optical Illusions

Bezold effect fabric

Bezold Effect

Most Awesome Illusions

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Floating helmet

Floating helmet and wheel

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

Bride Waterfall

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

Ominous bird

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

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

The eye of the tower

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

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

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

Galaxy far away at Burning Man

A Galaxy Far Away

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

Live Wallpaper

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

Skywalker

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

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

Underwater Waterfall

Floating cat head

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

Shadow Avatars

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

Screw hole

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Alien invasion in Texas

Alien Invasion

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

concave and convex

The same image

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

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

Skull

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Strained Expression

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Music notes

Music Notes

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

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

Deformed Building

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

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

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

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

tree eye

Eye of a tree

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

Grate Optical Illusion

Goal perspective

Goal perspective

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

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

Big bottoms

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

Footprint in the sand

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

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

Big women

Screaming up or down?

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

Assorted Dried Beans

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Magic Sword

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Body art parrot

Parrot

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

hills with trees

Hills and trees

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Mimetolith

Green Kong

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle