Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Optical Illusions... The awesomeness. The impossibleness. The some-what hilarity. My favorite is ofcourse the impossible shape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 this one is objectively the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 my favorite is that posts here look intelligent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 The one with the looping water Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Khoth Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I have Lilith's in my desktop background rotation. My favourite is probably this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I like lots of illusions, but my latest favorite is not exactly an illusion. You just look at yourself in a mirror, and in particular watch your eyes. Look yourself in the left eye, then the right eye, and keep switching back and forth. Then have someone else do the same thing, and watch their real eyes as they look back and forth at their reflection. You'll see the other person's eyeballs steadily swinging back and forth, of course. To change their concentration of view, they have to physically move your eyes. So do you. But when you're looking at your own eyes in the mirror, you will never see them move. Your reflection will simply snap abruptly from still eyes staring one way, to still eyes staring the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 I like the mentioned Checker Shadow Illusion the best because it shows how your brain can totally screw with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 No way! Those are obviously different colors! They are just editing it in some way. I know. I just know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Originally Posted By: !WoUlD yOu LiKe SoMe CuPcAkEs? [img:center][/img] What's the illusion, it looks more like it's photoshoped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Escher's stuff is pretty cool, IMO. Illusion and art combined! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity You just look at yourself in a mirror, and in particular watch your eyes. Look yourself in the left eye, then the right eye, and keep switching back and forth. Argh, I can feel my eyes moving back and forth. Make it stop! Dikiyoba is rather fond of the Lilac chaser illusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 That's a nice one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 The size illusions are cool too Click to reveal.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 My least favourite ones are the fuzzy dot ones that you have to stare at for ages for an image to appear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 I'm not sure if you tried to list it on your poll but I've always enjoyed the Hidden Pictures optical illusions. For u Diki. Edit: Cairo, if this is what u were talking about, I find it helps to have the picture up close the the face and then bring it back slowly. Keeps the eyes in the right focus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 No, not what I meant. I mean that there are very slight differences in patterns, and if you put it about 5 feet from face, you see the color difference and the spelling or shapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 [quote=Jewels in Black Edit: Cairo, if this is what u were talking about, I find it helps to have the picture up close the the face and then bring it back slowly. Keeps the eyes in the right focus. Yeah, I just get bored with it to quickly and keep losing focus on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Jerakeen Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Unfocus your eyes, then look at it as if you're looking through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Artila bumbumpanks Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 Not sure why, but the stereograms literally never work for me, I can stare at them forever, and I do not see anything but maybe some slightly bumpy lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted June 11, 2012 Share Posted June 11, 2012 It does take a bit of practice before you're able to see them consistently. Also, I find that some images are a lot easier to see than others. Not sure why. I find them a lot easier to see when they're on paper, rather than on a screen. Again, not sure why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 One of my favorite illusions is the Devil's Tuning Fork, because it's one of the few I can draw. I also like several of Escher's drawings, especially Drawing Hands and several of the building illusions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 I've always enjoyed the magic eye books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 This is clearly the best optical illusion. (Also I like the lilac chaser, since I didn't vote before.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Originally Posted By: SereNikki This is clearly the best optical illusion. (Also I like the lilac chaser, since I didn't vote before.) Hugs and kisses. <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Oh wow!. Now I have a headache. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 Originally Posted By: Rowen is wait for Abysshack Originally Posted By: SereNikki This is clearly the best optical illusion. (Also I like the lilac chaser, since I didn't vote before.) Hugs and kisses. <3 That is awesome, but I had to take my glasses off to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Originally Posted By: SereNikki This is clearly the best optical illusion. I'll have to take your word for it. I didn't see anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt BMA Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Originally Posted By: SereNikki This is clearly the best optical illusion. Impossible. You can only see it when your head is in motion. When you stop moving your head, the image blends into the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Another way to make the hidden image more visible is to scale it down. If you reduce the whole image to half size, it becomes pretty obvious what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Originally Posted By: Skwish-E Oh wow!. Now I have a headache. Thanks! ^ This. You owe me a temple rub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 16, 2012 Author Share Posted June 16, 2012 This is what I was talking about before. The, "Blending in" Images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Sometimes you can skew people's perception in non-sensory ways. For instance, there's that well-known illusion whose effectiveness depends strongly on IQ. It's one of those ambiguous images, where in one way of seeing it, there's this naked guy, but in another, he's wearing a bunch of fancy robes and stuff. Really smart people can see the second view easily, but have a lot more trouble seeing the first version. With dumber people, it's the other way round. I'd link to a picture of it, but well, I wouldn't want to cause trouble. Maybe it would be better to just read about it. I think if you google you might track down the original paper by Grimm et al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 Now that you've made it clear that the illusion is linked to IQ, everyone is going to claim that the emperor has clothes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 17, 2012 Author Share Posted June 17, 2012 Epic ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 This ones pretty cool https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=...pe=1&ref=nf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 18, 2012 Author Share Posted June 18, 2012 Those never seemed to work for me. However, I have terrible eyesight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted June 18, 2012 Share Posted June 18, 2012 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Now that you've made it clear that the illusion is linked to IQ, everyone is going to claim that the emperor has clothes. I don't get it. Where's the emperor? —Alorael, who feels like he's somehow missing something. A forest, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Originally Posted By: There's variance and there's variance —Alorael, who feels like he's somehow missing something. A forest, maybe? Of course you're missing the forest, there's too many trees in the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 19, 2012 Author Share Posted June 19, 2012 Forest ran that a-way. Forest was never here in the first place. Run, Forest Run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Found some neat illusions . Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Originally Posted By: U883r 1337 !7r3n70n Those never seemed to work for me. However, I have terrible eyesight. Look for a bit longer, making sure you keep your focus on the dot. Then, look at a clean, white surface and blink rapidly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 I never blinked when I looked at the white space. Nor did I completely focus on the dot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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