I love fun illusions, and I happened upon one that’s pretty interesting to see: an artist draws a glass of water that is startlingly 3-D: Oddly, the illusion is actually more convincing to watch at ...

Right from its entrance, Disneyland is designed to cast an illusion upon its visitors. The first area – Main Street – seems to stretch for miles towards the towering castle in the distance. All of ...

What the leaning tower and related illusions reveal about how your brain constructs 3-D images How could we have missed it? Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of visual scientists, psychologists, ...

One of the more popular optical illusions in art history is anamorphosis. It’s a mind-bending form of art that dates back to the 1500s, and is still causing people to cock their heads and blink today.

The male peacock is well known for its courtship displays, during which it fans its colourful tail feathers to attract a mate. But not all birds are so spectacular, and males of other species employ ...

The Ponzo Illusion is a famous optical illusion discovered by Italian Psychologist Mario Ponzo. It tricks our eyes into believing that two identical length objects are of different lengths due to the ...

Optical Illusion: Two women, a dog or a face? What did you notice first? This mind-bending optical illusion will reveal your level of attention. Try this optical illusion test now. Optical Illusion ...

How could we have missed it? Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of visual scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, visual artists, architects, engineers and biologists all missed it–until three years ago ...