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Facts, science and history of optical illusions.
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How to create optical illusion photos (for social media)

Parallax effect

Parallax Effect

Prehistoric ambiguous illusion

The history of optical illusions in art

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:

Migrating horses
Sword-billed Hummingbird
NASA doctored photos?
Eyeglasses
Sunken police car
Nature's Dance
Echidna kitten
The Grinch
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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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