Colorful Optical IllusionsEach of these optical illusions is a masterpiece of colorful design, with visual tricks to confound the mind and please the eye. Just don’t trust anything you see at first glance, because it’s impossible to judge spatial relations, or even the subject of a picture, accurately. In some cases, the colors themselves deceive the eye, making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. Hold onto your hats—two fancy stovepipe hats, that is: are they taller than they are wide, wider than they are tall, or the same dimensions? Or try climbing the wild set of stairs: they’ll have you going in circles and in squares. There’s plenty of beautifully intriguing fun on these pages. |
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afterimage effect Amazing grays angles appear lighter Artful Illusions background bars are wavy bars look bend bigger blink and re-think bottom step Box of dots brighter circle groups Circles and triangles color illusions Colorful Optical Illusions colors appear complementary colors Crazy eights cube dark darker different colors Direction Distortion Dots and diamonds dots look dots that match double dandelion Example Figure A Figure Figure A WHAT'S Fool Your Eyes green green on red Impossible Object inner ring kinds of illusions kinds of shapes larger circle larger-the law of similarity light Location & Direction look different Mark Shulman middle mind Narrow Arrows Nurosi orange dot orange lines outer ring Pages parallel perspective picture or illusion Ponzo Illusion rectangle Red grill red lines Reversing Figure Shape Distortion sides Simultaneous contrast smaller circle Spaghetti Machine there's trick TV dinner vertical lines Wavy groovy WHAT'S HAPPENING Whirly swirly white triangles