Optical Illusions

An Optical Illusions is a visual effect that is in some way dissimilar from reality. With an optical illusion, your eye sees one set of data and your brain interprets it and 'shows' it to you differently, causing things to appear other than they are, such as three-dimensional when the item is only two-dimensional, or something may appear moving when it is truly still, or the size, distance or relative proportions of an item appear off from what they truly are by measure.

Featured Optical Illusion Video

This week's featured optical illusion video works on the image burning aspect of your eye. Much like the old television video games would burn an image of the game on the television screen, the eye can have images burned into it too, and those images will create interesting illusions.

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Featured Optical Illusion Image

This week's featured optical illusion image is showing how, with the right trick to the eye, a 2-D drawing can appear three dimensional.

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