Illusion

October 13, 2017

Optical Illusion Hallway Design Makes It Look Like Floor is Sinking

At first glance, you might think that this floor looks too warped to cross safely. It looks like it’s sinking in on one side, but it’s actually perfectly flat. This award-winning wonky walkway can be found at the Casa Ceramica showroom in Manchester, England. The checkerboard design—which comprises 400 custom-cut porcelain tiles—creates an optical illusion that works from the perspective of the front door.

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May 5, 2014

Amazing 3D Sand Drawings by Jamie Harkins, Constanza Nightingale, and David Rendu Give Beach a New Dimension

Constanza Nightingale New Zealand artists Jamie Harkins, David Rendu, and Constanza Nightingale transformed the beaches of Mount Maunganui into eye-popping works of art with their amazing 3D sand drawings. With creativity and a sense of playfulness, the artists etch large-scale shapes and lines in the sand, producing imaginative scenes such as a lively pier, a skatepark, and even the Pantheon.

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August 21, 2013

Are These a Pair of Legs or Two Hot Dogs?

Hot-Dog Legs is a hilariously quirky single-topic Tumblr blog that leaves viewers wondering what they're looking at–a first-person point of view of a pair of legs or two carefully placed hot dogs? It sounds silly and seems like it would be easy to decipher which is which, but browsing through the collection of images proves that it's a lot harder to tell the difference than you'd think!

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October 31, 2008

Optical Illusions – 12 Tilt-Shift Miniature Faking Photos

Talk about trippy. These are not miniature models, they are actual life size objects. Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a creative technique whereby a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model. Most faked tilt-shift photographs are taken from a high angle to further simulate the effect of looking down on a miniature.

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