Visual Illusions

Xah Lee, 2006-05

This page contains some visual illusions collected from the web.

Unless otherwise indicated, images on this page are copyright © by Akiyoshi Kitaoka “Trick eyes” Tokyo: KANZEN 2002, from http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html. (used with permission)

“Primrose's field”. Wavy. The longer you look, the more wavy it gets.

Rotating Snakes.

“Rotating rays”.

“The autumn color swamp”

“Atlantis”

“Rollers”

above: “down wave”. source unknown.


Look at the + in the center for a while, maybe 20 seconds.

Source: Jeremy L Hinton, Michael Bach, and http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_lilacChaser/index.html, accessed on 2006-05-17.

This website is really trippy. It demonstrates motion after effect, which is not entirely understood: http://www.neave.com/strobe/ (2006-08,)


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