Visual Phenomena and Optical Illusions: Video

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Real Life Escher's Waterfall

So what's going on here? One thing about Dutch artist M.C. Escher was his ability to twist our brains with his optical illusions. The "Waterfall", which was created back in 1961 is an impossible drawing showing what appears to be water running uphill before descending back onto a watermill wheel. You can see how the original looks on paper here. But what if we caught a glimpse of it created in real life? Has McWolles really achieved the impossible? Check the video below to see the physical version of Escher's Waterfall. It is as if McWolles made one that actually works. Being honest, I just can't understand where is the catch. Does it have something to do with camera's angle (it never changes during the video), can it be that CGI was used? It almost gives you brain whiplash just thinking about it!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Impossible Motion Illusion - Magnet like slopes illusion

Impossible Motion magnet like slopes illusion

This optical illusion has been created in three dimensions. It is a real object. However impossible things seem to happen! The wooden balls seem to roll uphill. It cannot be magnets - they do not work on wood! This wonderful illusion was created by Koukichi Sugihara from the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences in Japan. In May 2010 this video was the winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010.

However once the structure rotates, we can see that it is not constructed as we initially thought. We might have thought that the wooden balls were rolling uphill. Once we view it from the other side, we can see that in fact the balls are rolling downhill, and that the laws of physics are still being obeyed.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Amazing Fire Illusion - Fire Illusion with Candles

This illusion is made by Lots of candles. Lots of heat. But it turned out neat!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Final Proof for Wavy Circles - Video Illusion

Before Watching this Video see this post

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Friday, March 26, 2010

Ames Window Optical Illusion - Video Illusion

Check the Ames Room illusion first, if you haven’t already seen it! Today’s illusion is fairly difficult to see, but once you do – it’s amazing. Focus on the rotation of the rod. It appears to continually rotate in one direction while the window appears to reverse. This causes the illusion of rod passing through the window. Can you see it? Please report your findings!

Projected 3D Illusions - Video Illusion

it is just a simple blue cube … but imagine the possibilities: 3D holographic landscapes that update in real time, video software you can download and project at home on walls, floors and ceilings, backgrounds you display on the outside of a building, three-dimensional gaming, effects… Where people once thought that virtual-reality would happen overnight, we are learning that augmented reality and virtual worlds combined with experiments like this may finally start to blend realities and blur the line between digital and physical spaces.

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Sexy Lady Optical Illusion - Sexy Optical Illusion

SPOILER WARNING - WATCH VIDEO FIRST

Now you know this optical illusion wasn't really going to be of a naked lady. But I'm sure you didn't expect it to be of some dude's hairy armpit.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Growing Breasts Illusion | Optical Illusion

By know, almost everyone has seen the wavy object illusion where you stare into the center of the swirling circle and then after a minute, look at another object. But have you ever tried staring at a pair of large breasts afterward - now this is interesting (and entertaining).

Thursday, December 17, 2009

The Ames Room Illusion | Optical Illusion

An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create an optical illusion.

An Ames room is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room, with a back wall and two side walls parallel to each other and perpendicular to the horizontally level floor and ceiling. However, this is a trick of perspective and the true shape of the room is trapezoidal: the walls are slanted and the ceiling and floor are at an incline, and the right corner is much closer to the front-positioned observer than the left corner (or vice versa).

As a result of the optical illusion, a person standing in one corner appears to the observer to be a giant, while a person standing in the other corner appears to be a dwarf. The illusion is convincing enough that a person walking back and forth from the left corner to the right corner appears to grow or shrink.