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| Escher would like this building |
| 2008-07-18 13:12:32 |
A tower with very unusual shape in Beijing (China) will be completed for the Olympic games 2008.
It’s new China Central Television Tower (CCTV). It seems an impossible object , maybe you think that this building cannot exist in the our world, because it consists of two leaning towers, which are joined by a bridge [...]...
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| Anamorphisme used in traffic control |
| 2008-07-06 16:24:34 |
This anamorphic 3D Optical Illusion is being used as a part of Philadelphia’s effort to slow down drivers speeding through local streets. The basic idea is that rather than building real speed bumps on roads, optical illusion speed bumps are being tested that are intended to trick drivers into slowing down, only later to find [...]...
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| Spiral optical illusion |
| 2008-07-06 12:01:36 |
Here is another spiral illusion - this time in Snail-o-vision! Interesting fact about this optical illusion, is that when people encounter it for the first time, based on their previous experience with illusions, they presume it has something to do with perpetual motion. At least that is what I presumed. I thought the only illusion [...]...
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| Bags illusion |
| 2008-07-04 11:46:53 |
Photograph shows how shopping bags adorned with clever artwork.
A “Reach out children with autism” bag promoting the efforts of the Dubai Autisn Center...
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| Anamorphism of an optical illusion |
| 2008-06-29 13:38:07 |
Above you can see two different illusions. The first, most obvious one shouldn’t be a problem to spot for those of you who already knows anamorphic illusions.
More explanation can be found inside our Anamorphism category.
The second, less obvious illusion, is that the image reflected on the steel cylinder is in it’s origin a [...]...
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| Perspective Optical Illusions |
| 2008-06-17 09:46:07 |
Here are 2 perspective illusion photos , from different photographers.
None of these images were edited in Photoshop or any similar photo editing program, it´s only the aproppiate angle which make the illusion.
Above , “900 Foot Tall Jesus” perspective illusion, by Jibby!
“So klein?” or “How small?” image found on Barbara Nobis’s gallery....
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| A human being of 4 km long |
| 2008-06-15 09:45:46 |
What do you think about this?
Flying over South Australia in 1998 , a pilot discovered something astonishing: the giant image of a human being, 4.2 kilometers long, carved into the earth.
It must have taken a long time to carve the figure into the arid soil with a tractor or a plough. Even planning the work [...]...
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| Giant Dragon seen in Google Earth |
| 2008-06-02 14:11:31 |
This image looks scary, doesn´t? you can see the Dragon’s Head embedded in the ground near Montana in Canada.
I think is just a coincidence of nature….
This image is taken from Google Earth , a good site to explore for news visions....
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| Magic Illusion , standing in the air |
| 2008-05-26 14:58:56 |
Take a look at this street performer, which I would put in magic illusions category. He’s really just standing in the air, Do yout know how does he manages it .
Check out the short video below , you’ll see how realistic it looks.
Well , here are the explanation:...
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| Animated optical illusion |
| 2008-05-24 14:43:12 |
Fun with CSS and optical illusions. Marcofolio has created one animated optical illusion with the help of CSS.
We saw this optical effect video’s a while ago, was the Magic Moving Images. The video clearly explains how this optical illusion works and I really liked it.
Another similar great illusion is [...]...
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| Different Percepts between foveal and Peripheral Vision |
| 2008-05-19 12:25:59 |
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This optical illusion was finalist at “5th Best visual Illusion of the year 2008″ .
An object viewed directly (foveal vision) appears different from the same object viewed indirectly (peripheral vision). In this illusions, the “peripheral escalator,” zebra-like columns swing back and forth across the screen. Viewed foveally, the columns move along [...]...
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| Optical Illusion , the floating boat. |
| 2008-05-09 14:41:15 |
The Optical Illusion about this floating boat is a very nice picture. The boat appears to be floating in thin air!
The trick here is the shadow, which is normally how you tell how far off the ground it is. Is the shadow on top or underwater?...
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| Direct TV , HD in your TV |
| 2008-05-09 02:44:03 |
If you want to see all sports and your fav TV series in HD , you have two options Satellite TV and cable TV. Which to choice?
Both are good , but I prefer Satellite TV ; especially choising a great dealer like Direct Sat TV .
Direct Sat TVis an authorized nationwide operator for [...]...
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| Bruno’s Art & Sculpture Garden |
| 2008-05-07 12:46:55 |
Hidden amongst the trees of the small Victorian village of Marysville is a world full of fantasy, beauty and humour.
Surrounded by the magical rainforest setting, Bruno Torfs has created one of the world’s most unique and deeply inspiring experiences for art and garden lovers of all ages.
With over three hundred paintings and sculptures to discover, [...]...
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| Ames room. Optical illusion |
| 2008-05-04 10:43:15 |
The visual researcher A. Ames Jr. designed a room that use to make series of visual illusions to demonstrate how the reality can change the hypotheses formed by the mind about sizes and depth. In one such illusion, Ames tested aspects of depth perception in a specially designed, distorted room.
Here a graphic [...]...
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| Optical illusion .Endless Tunnel of Light |
| 2008-05-03 06:58:51 |
Endless Tunnel of Light creates an endless tunnel of light; you can see these tunnels in several Optical museums .
These Illusion">optical illusions are quite simple and very effective.
It is created using two mirrors and a bunch of little lights. The back mirror is a normal one, the second is a two-way mirror. The [...]...
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| Impossible building in China . |
| 2008-05-01 05:40:25 |
For the Olympic games 2008 , a unusual tower in Beijing (China) will be completed . It’s new China Central Television Tower (CCTV) and the final result could be amamzing (see above). This building cannot exist in the our world, maybe you think if you look from the correct angle , because it [...]...
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| Anamorphic murals optical illusions |
| 2008-04-24 14:36:40 |
What you see here are murals painted in anamorphic style. When you look from the right angle you have the illusion of being seen a real (and 3D) object.
Above you have the portrait of Marvel Comic’s superhero, The Thing, one of the Fantastic Four. This has to be one of the best examples [...]...
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| Magic esculptures by Francis Tabary |
| 2008-03-14 04:25:54 |
Francis Tabary, magician from France, creates sculptures of impossible figures. He spent 50 years to design and show magic tricks. He became winner in FISM championship in Lausanne in 1991. (FISM - Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques (French) - International Federation of Magic Societies)
Unlike other examples of sculptures of impossible figures, sculptures by Francis [...]...
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| Anamorphic cylinders illusion |
| 2008-03-09 12:48:25 |
Cylindric mirror optical illusions are fun, and something I posted before at other of my blogs. Today I show a collection of cylindric mirror illusions . The optical illusions works when a cylinder mirror is placed at the correct center position of seemingly non-understandable and blurred image.
If the cylinder has been placed correctly, you can [...]...
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| Heart Shaped Illusions in nature |
| 2008-02-20 13:49:29 |
Cloud illusion
Don’t take these too seriously, may be these are not optical illusions but a little funny images for the Valentine’s day. So here they are, heart shaped illusions:
Another cloud illusion
Elephant Love
Love illusion...
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| Math´s trick revealed |
| 2008-02-19 16:24:32 |
Now here´s a math´s trick . Could do you mentally divide a big number by 9?
See the answer
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| Optical illusions with impossible artworks |
| 2008-02-15 03:00:30 |
There are two classic impossible figures Penrose tribar and Devils’s fork in artworks below.
Artist’s site http://ppdm.free.fr
Artist: Lizete de Assis (aka Ppdm)...
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| Magical artworks and sculptures. |
| 2008-02-11 12:13:15 |
Here you can see artworks and sculptures in which mathematical laws were posed as basis.
Artworks by M.C. Escher and his followers.
Escher spheres
Some Escher’s tessellated images can be adopted to spherical surface. First of all it is concerned to his lithographs which show hyperbolic space such as “Angels and Devils”, “Circle limit IV” etc. Above [...]...
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| Two illusions in one. |
| 2008-02-06 09:38:24 |
At this illusion you can observe the 3d effect as well another cintillating effect at background...
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| Simon Pierro’s Kistentrick |
| 2008-02-01 16:42:55 |
Nice tricks with boxes.
Wath do you think , there is something wrong with the door?
they just switch the boxes with 2 identical bigger?...
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| Zoomorphic Calligraphy |
| 2008-01-27 07:19:33 |
“This new mode was not a matter of script metamorphosing into living forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate such forms. Seldom had the flexibility of the Arabic alphabet been so tested.
This practice , betwenn make optical illusions an art ( of course , far away of the digital art) [...]...
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| Vanishing Pineapple |
| 2008-01-24 19:22:18 |
This amazing old illusion trick continues making laugh everybody except one....
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| Building mural.Optical illusion |
| 2008-01-15 17:01:42 |
This melting building mural is located in Georges V Ave. in Paris (France). Trompe-l’oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist....
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| Binary Card Trick |
| 2008-01-11 13:19:05 |
You put a deck of cards in your pocket, and invite anyone in the audience to call out a number between 1 and 15. Then you reach into your pocket, you take out a set of cards whose sum is the number that was called!
How can you perform this magic trick?
The Math Behind [...]...
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| Magic Tricks Revealed: Saw Your Neck. |
| 2008-01-08 15:41:30 |
Watch the video ; it’s quite impressive . The guy is sawing his neck with a thin cord, which disappears under his skin. Simple but effective, there is no blood and he’ll come out of it alive. This is just another one of the simple magic tricks you can learn in minutes and [...]...
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| The square missing |
| 2008-01-05 15:40:17 |
This is a well know optical illusion , but you can do it as a magic trick and surprise audience.
Here you can see the model:
and other one:
You can see the performance...
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| The spinning wheel |
| 2008-01-05 09:55:56 |
At this optical illusion ,see how this wheel appears to rotate at differing speeds....
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| Incredible illusion : driftwood horses |
| 2007-12-31 09:13:38 |
These incredible driftwood horses have all been hand crafted out of large pieces of driftwood. the mastermind behind this beautiful pieces of art is Heather Jansch. Heather being the horse loving, never letting anything slow her down kinda girl began building these horse sculptures and now has a full gallery and exhibition of them. Heather [...]...
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