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A photograph from erik minnema inspired by Bruno Ernst, the biographer of M.C. Escher.

Do you remember this nice 80’s movie, “Back to the Future”? It had this over-cool DeLorean race car as a time machine. Why not make it a perspective-based optical illusion?

Depending on the opinions, a Wonderbra is a useful complement or a mean to cheat with the feminine attributes given by Nature. But here is a présentation that is very deceiving in how it presents the effects of this line of lingerie products.

Not only happy with showing you the best visual illusions I could find, here is a conference about a study leading to the analysis of optical illusions and hallucinations induced by optical illusions and drugs. It may be a little long, but the lecture by Jack Cowan is definitely more interesting than most talks about the subject.

Are these nuts real?

Do you remember the Pac Man video game? If yes, you’re a dinosaur but you will appreciate this nice architectural optical illusion applied to a flat.

This impossible perspective receives a kind of explanation if you follow it to the end of the description of this optical illusion in video.

It is quite impressive to see how the eye can be tricked when hiding the shades transitions. so simple an optical illusion.