Post your favorite optical illusion

[cupajoe]

Just post a picture or video of your favorite optical illusion.

 

[Shinji]

I'll just post a link to the site...
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_wagonWheel/index.html

Its the whole "spinning so fast it looks like its going backwards" thing

P.S. check out the site, more optical illusions

 

[NeSchn]

My favorite one was downloadable one from eBaumsWorld, but they took it off a long time ago.

 

[BilliePop]

I like the weird spiral-snake things. D: I dunno.

 

[Deleted member 110780]

I really like the flashy swirl one. I look at something in my room and I'm like OMG A WORMHOLE

 

[dakeyras]

I like the ones with colour contrast. Where by putting colours next to each other you see different colours where they are none.

Example:

How many different colours are in that picture?

Only two colours in that picture. But you see more. Magic!

 

[Jax]

I like the ones with colour contrast. Where by putting colours next to each other you see different colours where they are none.

Example:

How many different colours are in that picture?

Only two colours in that picture. But you see more. Magic!

I see 3 colors: green, pink and WHITE!

 

[dakeyras]

Smartass, but white is achromatic as it has no hue. Mhuaha. I win.

edit: this one is creepy on paper I think. Cause it seems like it came alive..or something.

 

[jelbo]

Which color is lighter, that of tile A or B?

Believe it or not, but both tile A and B have the exact same color! Check the color values with your favourite image editing software.

 

[Flooded]

I found these to be pretty cool:
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/cog_blureffects/index.html

 

[Mangofett]

Which color is lighter, that of tile A or B?

Believe it or not, but both tile A and B have the exact same color! Check the color values with your favourite image editing software.

Bricks have been shat.

 

[FAST6191]

Not a postable one but hold your forefingers together before moving them slightly apart.
Focus on the background.

 

[Costello]

Not a postable one but hold your forefingers together before moving them slightly apart.
Focus on the background.

yeah the sausage thing, that was cool
I went through all of michael bach's site, there are some amazing ones really!
the one posted above with the A & B grey tiles amazed me... I compared the hex value and actually they were a little bit different

one was #CECECE (206, 206, 206) and the other was #D0D0D0 (208, 208, 208) ...
but when you actually put both colours together you can't see the difference at all.

 

[jelbo]

The colors are identical though, you may have measured one of the JPEG artifacts.

 

[azotyp]

Here is my favourite optical illusion
First you must take your head about 10 cm from the computer screen for 10 sec, then click this

 

[Sailor]

By far my most favorite one: Click.
When I first saw it I nearly exploded

And that A+B one is very cool..can't believe they're really different colors.

 

[Sick Wario]

i really like illusions especially the ones that appear moving. 2 examples here:

 

[VVoltz]

This thread actually has "veho, please post here" written all over it.

BTW, here is mine:

 

[Deleted member 110780]

Smartass, but white is achromatic as it has no hue. Mhuaha. I win.

edit: this one is creepy on paper I think. Cause it seems like it came alive..or something.

I nearly wanted to stab my eyes out to MAKE THEM STOP MOVING. But I was able to keep all of them still except for one circle >_> Do you have the article explaining why these circles move?

 

[azotyp]

Smartass, but white is achromatic as it has no hue. Mhuaha. I win.

edit: this one is creepy on paper I think. Cause it seems like it came alive..or something.

I nearly wanted to stab my eyes out to MAKE THEM STOP MOVING. But I was able to keep all of them still except for one circle >_> Do you have the article explaining why these circles move?

I dont see any moving, only 3d-like whirl