Optical Illusion - Dodecahedron

A Dodecahedron is a 12 faced polyhedron with 20 verticals and thirty edges. It's a 3D geometric object. You can see the example in the first image below. The optical illusion behind this installment is obvious only when you see the second photo. Dodecahedron Optical Illusion is composed of a bunch of random floating chunks of wood. As they appear to be randomly spread around the area, when viewed from the correct angle they form a perfect Dodecahedron. More precisely, this installment is created from dozens of seemingly random positioned parts that obtain cohesive structure only when viewed from certain angle. Bunch of similar examples can be found on this site. Starting from Felice Varini's circles, all the way to Bicycle Installment and that strange installment from Hungary. I'm not quite sure who is the artist behind this amazing illusion, but if you find some info, be sure to share through comments.

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Spinning MAN Optical Illusion

Once again Mighty Optical Illusions website proudly brings new optical illusion that hopefully will become as famous as the Spinning Girl did in the past. Remember when we first posted Spinning Girl illusion, it was later reposted on all the famous websites across the internet. The artwork was created by Peter 'Def' Oksbjerre, and the flash work was enhanced by Miguel Ortiz, and later by Anthony J. Foreman. I thank all three of you guys for your time. Now the illusion works like this: watch the spinning man, and you'll see him spin in one direction, but as soon as he rotates for 180 degrees, you'll see the switch in the direction of his movement, and he will spin differently. Let's see how long does it take for big websites to find this illusion and write about it. Remember, to see the freshest optical illusion on your PC desktop, Mac dashboard, iGoogle or Facebook profile, add the appropriate application. You can find them all at the top of the sidebar.

Let's give the author (Peter) opportunity to explain it himself: "Hi, Love your site. I was playing around with some particle-systems and depth-maps in AfterEffects and suddenly this guy showed up. I like how his legs get totally twisted in the middle of the spin. It works with the same principles as the Einstein and Chaplin-masks where you see the inside but it looks like the outside."

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Mirror Tic Tac Toe Illusion

Now this one is eye-candy! One of the first games I ever learned to play as a child was Tic Tac Toe. We call this game differently here in Croatia, but if you translated the meaning literally, it would be "Crosses and Circles". Mirror Tic Tac Toe by Peleg Design is a rad little optical illusion board game with half O's and X's that only are complete when put in play. I'm not exactly sure weather you see the O's and X's correctly if you look at the board under different, more extreme angle, but Sahar Peleg surely created very interesting and innovative approach to this game.

Shahar Peleg is a multi-disciplined designer, who designs, develops and produces commercial products in small quantities. Shahar designs every-day objects with additional values which give them a fresh character. His experimentation with optical illusions and “magic” result in smart and surprising products that challenge the spectator to take a closer, more detailed look. His products are characterized by minimalist form and with the use of ordinary materials, usually produced in “low tech” production processes and at times even handmade.

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Count the Horses if you can

...a Hidden Horses Illusion! Bet you didn't saw this one coming. Today I bring you all new optical illusion, the type you have never seen before! Your assignment is to spot as many hidden horses in this fabulous image below. How many did you find? How long did it take? Yes, for those of you who are still not sure, there was an irony in my voice. I'm a little fed up with all these hidden horses by now. The authors should already run of them, if someone asks me. Still, it's a regular optical illusion, nice looking as well, and it would be a shame not to post it. I just hope this is the last one! If you have a spare time, you can help me gather all the horse illusions from this website, and point to them inside your comments. This way we'll see how many there were exactly, and we'll have them all in one place. My bet is a roundish number, something like 20 or so.

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Irregular Circles Illusion

Irene Román found this illusion, while looking for some in Google. She asked us if these two concentric circles below look irregular? "They obviously are", some of you may say. I did as well! Well, since this is optical illusions website - they’re not! This type of visual phenomena is well known to me. I have shared over a dozen of similar variations in the past, haven't I? But this one probably shares the strongest effect! When I look at it up close, I understand that they are regular, but still have trouble seeing them regular as a whole. Nifty, ayeh? I have linked some words in this text to help you compare this illusion with some very similar from the past.

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Camel Camels Everywhere..

Smoking is bad! It shortens your life, takes your energy and gives you smelly breath. I know all this, but am still not able to quit. Well, maybe I'll smarten up one day - hopefully soon. In the mean time, I bring you this set of photos that were produced for Camel. Maybe sharing these make me sort of a hypocrite, but what can I say - they have some pretty original campaign. And it has much to do with OPTICAL ILLUSIONS! Jump inside this article, and observer some of the most fascinating Camel posters. There are dozen of them, some more obvious, and some more difficult to see. Which billboard makes the Camel logo hardest to spot? Which one is best in its design? Which one you liked the most? Try and answer few of these questions, and please share you opinion on articles like this one. Enjoy!

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Hidden Animals... Illusion

Through a little study I have learned that spot the object illusions like this one below receive highest rankings from my audience. I thought after a while you'll become sick of them, but I forgot that you aren't the ones that have to look at them daily for over 2 years. This is probably the reason you weren't affected by them yet. Like the hidden horses, that were posted recently for the millionth time, this article bares the similar name. Only this time hidden animals are wolves and polar bears. Like we never talked about them earlier, yeah right. But there are some other "things" to spot if you look more closely. It shouldn't be to hard after all experience we gathered. Do you bare with me on this one? My belief is that similar illusions are still popular because of search-game they involve, giving them some kind of "quest" atmosphere, as well as their artistic looks.

Oh, concerning yesterday's post - I would like to thank Doug and the other person that shared info on Elance with me, helping me in my goal of hiring coworkers for this website. I still need few more answers on my questions from previous post. Anyone can help? Now go, and study this spot the object painting!


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Mural Painted Building

If you wonder yourself how come I've posted Mural optical illusion two days in a row, the answer is more than simple. Yesterday's post inspired me to refurbish Murals category, and to give it new shine. I have collected all the mural posts from this site's archive, and arranged them to show little icon and description inside the previously mentioned category. Feel free to jump inside "Trompe L'Oeil" Murals section (French for "Fool the Eye"), and you'll quickly understand what am I babbling here. Related to this announcement, I have added interesting black and white/color photo I found lying on my hard drive. The photo below was manipulated to look black and white, so that the mural jumps out, which helps spotting it more easily. I adore this kind of art, and wish there were similarly painted surfaces back here where I live. Still nothing here, but I'll keep you informed if some artist shares my idea and starts painting buildings and sidewalks :)

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Art on Walls - 3D

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Tree Mural - Artistic Illusion

I understand that the line that separates Murals (Trompe L'Oeil) and 3D Chalk Drawings is very thin, but horizontal/vertical rule is something that guides me on my quest, when deciding which category posts like this one belong to. More specifically, if the realistic drawing is painted on the flat horizontal surface, I usually go with 3D Sidewalk Drawings. If the painted surface (that hides optical illusion) is vertical, and makes you believe what you are seeing is more than a painting, I usually categorize that post under Murals. Well, the rule doesn't apply every time, but it helps to know that Murals are usually the ones painted on sides of the buildings. So, now you probably learned that being in command behind this website isn't very sophisticated and intellectual work after all! Now enjoy this awesome Mural below! Illusions with trees are always fun! Especially this one.