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Facts, science and history of optical illusions.
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sorrowful rock face pareidolia

How do optical illusions work?

Locomotives in their natural habitat

Pareidolia (Seeing faces)

How to create optical illusion photos (for social media)

optical illusions with Category: Objects

A collection of accidental optical illusions with answers, perfectly times photos and trickeye pictures of objects.
Click on the images to read the explanation of the optical illusion and the source/credit of the image.

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

Tree with square shadow

Square shadow

Cervical Cancer Campaign

Fight against Cervical Cancer

Headless man at bus stop in Singapore

Headless Man

Ghost boat

Ghost Boat

Black cat looks like a shadow

Shadow

Grid illusion busty shirt

Grid Illusion Shirt

scale model of a courtyard

Scale Model of a Courtyard

parquet floor or dangerous stairs?

Parquet Floor

Floating cat illusion

Floating Black Cat

Portal in an abandoned hotel

Portal

Floating tire tracks

Floating tracks

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Floating helmet

Floating helmet and wheel

Heavy Metal Concert

Heavy Metal Concert

Paperthin building

Paperthin Building

Rainbow Road

Rainbow Road

The transparent coffee cup is just an illusion

Transparent coffee cup

Half cup

Cup Half Full

glass skyscraper reflection illusion

Pixeled sky

Hovering Car

Hovering Car

Apartment on fire

Apartment on fire

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

Illuminati eye in the ceiling

Illuminati

Amputee illusion

Unsuspecting Amputee

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

The Pyramid of Khafre

Geometric Shapes

Invisible - viral photo of girl with mirror

Invisible

Sunken Yacht

Sunken Yacht

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

Deformed Building

Eyeglasses

Eyeglasses

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

Floating ships

Flying Cargo Ship

Coffee sign

Coffee

Footprint in the sand

Backpack like a cartoon

Back to School

footprints in the sand depth ambiguity

Footprints in the sand

Potemkin Stairs makes use of forced perspective

Potemkin Stairs

Bald friends in a convertible

Bald friends

This photo is upside down. It is a nearly submerged SUV in a lake with many bystanders.  After this image was first posted to Reddit in January 2020, it has become a popular meme with the caption: "The difference between a UFO and a female driver is 180 degrees."

180 degrees

click to see the illusion

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

Wall drilling forced perspective illusion

Wall drilling illusion

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

Impossible triangle origami

Absolutely impossible

 

Cat shadow illusion

Misbehaving Shadow

Hidden ad in the shape of a kitchen in newspaper

Hidden ad in advertisement page

sunken police car

Sunken police car

A slate patio

This Patio

concave and convex

The same image

Not a brick

Car wrap sticker has a convertible printed on it.

A couple of cars in a parking lot

Bicycle wheels on a truck

Bicycle wheels on a truck

Stairs up or down?

Up or Down?

collage illusion of 2 ships

Collage illusion of ship

Strained Expression

Wheelbarrows on a truck

Amish Men using a Truck

Car grill mod

Grill Mod

Street in Macau

The Invasion

Wobbly floor

World’s Worst Carpet

A flying F1 car optical illusion

Flying F1 Car

The reflective lake is the roof of a very clean car. It is polished so well that it creates the illusion of a very calm lake reflecting the sky and the clouds.

Calm Lake

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

Pasha Bulker

Giant Ship

Giant lamps optical illusion

Giant lamps

An optical illusion of a car windshield impaled by a large beam

Impaled windshield

Music notes

Music Notes

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

Sneaky steps

Sneaky steps

Superior mirages

Cargo in the sky

Off-road truck optical illusion video

Off-road Truck Capabilities

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

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

Live Wallpaper

Boats floating in the bay

Floating either way

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

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

Grate Optical Illusion

These deadly stairs look wrong for a second, until you blink. If you can see it only in one way, just scroll up and down and you will see the other way appear.

Deadly stairs

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

Elvish writing

Elvish Writing

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Missing pixels in de sky

Missing pixels

Transparent car key, crystal car key

Transparent Car Key

impossible stair railing

Impossible Stair Railing

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

checkered shadows under street light

Checkered shadows

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Mannheim House

Bending the Walls

Strawberries color constancy

Blueberries

A stair slide

Stair Slide

Screw hole

Painting the sky

Painting the sky

The Taj Mahal seems to shrink as you get closer. 

Taj Mahal

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Vintage mirror

Vintage mirror

 

View from Tokyo hotel

Tokyo View

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

The eye of the tower

Square Fire Hydrant

Square Fire Hydrant

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