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Knowledge

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

Forced perspective image Pisa tower

Forced Perspective

Locomotives in their natural habitat

Pareidolia (Seeing faces)

sorrowful rock face pareidolia

How do optical illusions work?

Headless player

This photo of a headless player of the Philidelphia Phillies is perfectly timed.

Photo by: Tim Shaffer

Philadelphia Phillies’ headless player Ben Francisco is just an optical illusion. But the explanation is not even that far off, after he got hit in the head by a pitch from Logan Ondrusek (Cincinnati Reds player) in 2010. The photo is just perfectly timed.

More optical illusions:

Unsuspecting Amputee
Transparent Car Key
Goofy Tree
A Galaxy Far Away
Parking ramp
Skydiving Corgi
Afro tree
Firefall
  • Pareidolia
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Ice Cube sitting in a round-backed chair looking like he is raising his backend in the air.

Bottoms up, Ice Cube!

a dirty mind

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

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