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  😮 30 cool optical illusions: brain explosion | Interesting facts

  We are used to taking the world around us for granted, so we do not notice how our brain deceives its own masters. The imperfection of our binocular vision, unconscious false judgments, psychological stereotypes and other distortions of world perception serve as a pretext for the emergence of optical illusions. There are a lot of them, but we tried to collect for you the most interesting, crazy and incredible of them.

  Top Stunning Optical Illusions

  Impossible Figures

  At one time this genre of graphics was so widespread that it even got its own name - impossibilism. Each of these figures seems quite real on paper, but simply cannot exist in the physical world.

  Impossible Trident

  Classic Impossible Trident

  Classic blevet is perhaps the brightest representative of optical drawings from the "impossible figures" category. No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to determine where the middle prong originates.

  Another striking example is the impossible Penrose triangle.

  Impossible triangle

  It is also in the form of the so-called "endless staircase".

  Infinite Penrose Stairs

  And Roger Shepard's "impossible elephant".

  Shepard's impossible elephant

  Ames' room

  Adelbert Ames Jr. was interested in optical illusions from early childhood. After becoming an ophthalmologist, he did not stop his research on depth perception, which resulted in the famous Ames Room.

  Optical illusion "Ames Room"

  How the Ames Room works

  In a nutshell, the effect of the Ames Room can be expressed as follows: it seems that two people are standing in the left and right corners of its back wall - a dwarf and a giant. Of course, this is an optical trick, and in fact these people are of quite ordinary height. In reality, the room has an elongated trapezoidal shape, but because of the false perspective, it seems to us rectangular. The left corner is farther away from the visitors' view than the right corner, and therefore the person standing there seems so small.

  The principle of the Ames room

  Illusions of movement

  This category of optical tricks is of the greatest interest to psychologists. Most of them are based on the subtleties of color combinations, the brightness of objects and their repetition. All these tricks mislead our peripheral vision, as a result of which the perception mechanism goes astray, the retina captures the image intermittently, spasmodically, and the brain activates the areas of the cortex responsible for detecting movement.

  Floating star

  It's hard to believe that this picture is not an animated gif-format, but an ordinary optical illusion. The drawing was created by Japanese artist Kaya Nao in 2012. A pronounced illusion of movement is achieved due to the opposite direction of the patterns in the center and along the edges.

  "Floating Star" by Kaya Nao

  There are quite a few such illusions of movement, that is, static images that seem to move. For example, the famous spinning circle.

  Spinning circle

  Or yellow arrows on a pink background: when you look closely, they seem to sway back and forth.

  Moving hands

  Caution, this image may cause eye pain or dizziness in people with weak vestibular apparatus.

  Rays from the center

  Honestly, this is a regular picture, not a gif! Psychedelic spirals seem to drag somewhere into the universe full of oddities and wonders.

  Striped spirals

  Flipping illusions

  The most numerous and fun genre of drawings-illusions is based on changing the direction of looking at a graphic object. The simplest upside-down drawings just need to be rotated 180 or 90 degrees.

  Nurse or old woman

  Two classic flip-flop illusions: nurse/old woman and beauty/ugly.

  Beauty or ugly

  A more artistic picture with a twist - when rotated 90 degrees, the frog turns into a horse.

  Horse or frog

  Other "double illusions" are more subtle.

  Girl/old woman

  One of the most popular dual images was published in 1915 in the cartoon magazine Puck. The caption to the drawing read: "My wife and mother-in-law."

  The most famous optical illusions: old woman and vase profiles

  Old men / Mexicans

  Elderly married couple or Mexicans singing to the guitar? Most see old people first, and only then do their eyebrows turn into a sombrero, and their eyes into faces. The authorship belongs to the Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo, who created many pictures-illusions of a similar nature.

  Old men/Mexicans Octavio Ocampo

  Lovers/dolphins

  Surprisingly, the interpretation of this psychological illusion depends on the person's age. As a rule, children see dolphins frolicking in the water - their brain, not yet familiar with sexual relationships and their symbols, simply does not isolate two lovers in this composition. Older people, on the contrary, first see a couple, and only then dolphins.

  Dolphins or lovers - another interesting optical illusion

  The list of such dual pictures is endless:

  The well-known Eskimo Indian

  In the picture above, most people first see the Indian's face, and only then look to the left and distinguish the silhouette in a fur coat. The image below is usually interpreted by everyone as a black cat, and only then a mouse appears in its contours.

  Cat or mouse?

  A very simple upside-down picture - you can easily make something similar with your own hands.

  Snow White or Sherlock Holmes?

  Illusions of color and contrast

  Alas, the human eye is imperfect, and in our assessments of what we see (without noticing it) we often rely on the color environment and the brightness of the background of the object. This leads to very interesting optical illusions.

  Gray squares

  Optical color illusions are one of the most popular optical illusions. Yes, yes, squares A and B are painted in the same color.

  Squares A and B are actually the same color

  This trick is possible due to the way our brains work. A shadow without sharp borders falls on square B. Thanks to the darker "environment" and smooth shadow gradient, it seems that it is much lighter than square A.

  And here is the proof

  Green spiral

  There are only three colors in this photo: pink, orange and green.

  The blue color here is just an optical illusion

  Don't believe me? Here's what happens when you replace pink and orange with black.

  Without a distracting background, you can see that the spiral is completely green

  Is the dress white and gold or blue and black?

  However, illusions based on the perception of color are not uncommon. Take, for example, the white and gold or black and blue dress that conquered the Internet in 2015. What color was this mysterious dress, and why did different people perceive it differently?

  The explanation of the dress phenomenon is very simple: as in the case of gray squares, it all depends on the imperfect chromatic adaptation of our organs of vision. As you know, the human retina consists of two types of receptors: rods and cones. Rods capture light better, while cones capture color. Each person has a different ratio of cones and rods, so the definition of the color and shape of an object is slightly different depending on the dominance of one or another type of receptor.

  Those who saw the white-and-gold dress drew attention to the brightly lit background and decided that the dress was in the shade, which means that the white color should be darker than usual. If the dress seemed blue-black to you, then your eye first of all paid attention to the main color of the dress, which in this photo really has a blue tint. Then your brain judged that the golden hue was black, brightened due to the rays of the sun directed at the dress and the poor quality of the photo.

  Mysterious white and gold or black and blue dress

  The actual dress was blue with black lace.

  The dress turned out to be blue and black

  And here is another photo that baffled millions of users who could not decide if it was a wall in front of them or a lake.

  Wall or lake? (correct answer is a wall)

  Disappearing circles

  Optical illusions in the video

  Ballerina

  This crazy optical illusion is misleading: it is difficult to determine which leg of the figure is the supporting one and, as a result, to understand in which direction the ballerina is rotating. Even if you succeeded, while watching the video, the supporting leg can “change” and the girl seems to start to rotate in the other direction.

  The most popular optical illusion "Ballerina"

  If you can easily fix the direction of the ballerina's movement, this indicates a rational, practical mindset. If the ballerina rotates in different directions, this means that you have a stormy, not always consistent imagination. Contrary to popular belief, this does not affect the dominance of the right or left hemisphere.

  Monster Faces

  If you stare at the cross in the center for a long time, your peripheral vision will frighteningly distort the faces of celebrities.

  Illusion "Monster Faces"

  Optical Illusions in Design

  Optical illusion can be a spectacular tool for those who want to spice up their home. Very often, “impossible figures” are used in design.

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