The circle above is surrounded by larger circles, making it seem like it’s smaller than a same sized circle with smaller circles around it. This illusion takes advantage of our perception of relative size. I like to call this the contrast illusion, but it’s better known as the Ebbinghaus illusion. What if I told you, they are the same size! This is a 3D illusion that uses perspective and carefully planned out design to create the illusion only at a specific vantage point. However, if you concentrate on a single dot, this is definitely not the case!Ĭheck out this park inside Paris, it looks like a gigantic 3D globe… Your brain thinks “one has to be off” Are the Horizontal lines Straight or Crooked?Ī Great line optical illusion that strategically places black and white tiles to distort your peripheral vision that make the lines appear to be crooked The little dots below look like they are changing color as they rotate around the center. They aren’t converging, so your brain doesn’t think they are the same or parallel. So IF these two towers are really parallel, then they would start to converge from the distortion of your perspective. Same reason that long roads converge to a single point in the distance. Figure it this way, if these two towers were standing by eachother in the real world, the two towers would converge to a point, these are simply the rules of perspective. This deals with perspective optical illusions again.
It appears that the right tower is leaning more to the right.
So it’s hard to spot differences when we do. Think about it, we hardly ever run into upside down faces. Why didn’t you see the creepy faces before!? Well, you can blame your brains function dedicated to face recognition and perception. it took me a while to see it, but once you see it, you’ll always see it! At first glance, these women look very attractive…įlip the image over and you’ll see something completely demonic! In actuality, it is an image of two people making out and not a single person’s face. So when the pink circles rotate, they are just revealing the burned image into your mind! Check out this face illusion, it looks like a face in the mask, but take closer look… Now it appears to be rotating, but in actuality, the pink circles are burning an image into your retinas, a negative, which is the opposite color, green. Now you should be seeing a green circle appear and rotating. Her face should now have color!įOCUS on the cross in the center and observe the blank spot rotating around. Then look at a lighter surface, like a wall, and blink rapidly. I love this one, it’s one of my favorites and one of the BEST optical illusions out there! Stare at the woman’s nose for about 10 seconds. However, from one vantage point, the room looks like a normal room. It’s created by slanting the back wall towards the camera and the ceiling slanted down. The Ames Room illusion disrupts our depth perception. The third car is furhter away ( in perspective) so therefore it appears to look larger. The brain places the car into context with it’s surroundings. The Ponzo illusion is created by our brain judging an object’s size based by its perceived distance. They are the IDENTICAL! Take a ruler and measure. Share this with a friend and see how they react! Share buttons above! The Ponzo Illusion: Which Car is the biggest?