Illusion

Side-Car Optical Illusion

See what Crazy Car (one we already blogged about) looks like when being in action! The illusion isn’t subtle – on the contrary! It’s immediately obvious something strange is going on with them wheels. But what I found more interesting, when observing the showcased animation, your brain has trouble realizing what your eyes immediately understood.

P.S. This isn’t the only illusion present – which way do you see the car driving? Is it both?

Dragon Age Illusive Poster

Let’s see how long does it take you to notice the illusion in this poster below. It was originally used to promote computer game called Dragon Age II, but I managed to dig up this draft version lacking all the promotional text. 

The billboard was first spotted by Chris Anderson, who decided to share it with us. He explained how he had seen this poster of a bus shelter couple of times before he finally spotted the negative-space illusion it hides. This is the best clue I can give you, except maybe what you find may represent all of the dragon’s victims ;)

Disappearing Dots Poster

Here’s one you probably missed seeing in the wild! Check out what Oxy did as part of their “Disappearing Dots” campaign. Sure, the effect has been more than re-re-cycled on our site, but the idea behind it qualifies it as very smart optical illusion advertising! Old-timers will probably remember how Ariel did something similar back in the old days… 

Anyway, focus on the bottle for half a minute, and see the surrounding dots completely disappear! When you’re done, you might want to check similar ones (links in this text and color adapting category).

Wheel of Confusion Magic Trick

Which way is the wheel turning!? Focus on the red dots and follow them round… it appears to be rotating anti-clockwise. However, if you follow the yellow dots round instead, the whole wheel will be turning the other way! – clockwise!

Spot The Object / Rupees Illusion

There is a word hidden on this Rupee bill. It’s quite large and pretty obvious if you ask me, now that I know of it. Can you spot it? If not, try opening this post for explanation where it lyes, you’ll wonder how you didn’t notice it before… There’s also Illusion concerning 5 Canadian dollars inside this post.

10 Hidden Eagles Illusion

For my last day in Big Apple I chose something related. We all know how the Bald Eagle is a traditional USA’s national emblem. You may spot him playing a major role inside each of the United States agency logos. Steven Michael Gardner is an artist whose creations played a big role in Mighty 

Optical Illusions history as well. I didn’t have enough time to tag all of his illusions on this site under one unifying tag, but you may find him easily by searching this site via integrated search box on top of our sidebar. 

This time Steven hid 10 Bald eagles inside this picture below. Some are obvious, while some are so well hidden you’ll have a hard time spotting them all. Enjoy your search!

There are 10 of them, can you spot all of them?

Ladies and Gentlemen Illusion

I’ve found both of these optical illusions festering somewhere on my desktop computer. I always thought they were well produced, yet never felt they really deserve their very own post on this site. 

Luckily, a solution came to my mind – why not have them both at the same time?! Something similar was tested 2 weeks ago, and your response wasn’t bad at all! The first one depicts two booby-licous gentlemen, while the other was created by our well known illusion master – G. Sarcone.

Can you be sure how many ladies are there present in the second picture below?

Not What You Originally Thought

Fresh optical illusions quickly become viral on the net. Seems internet audience is always thirsty for more, and this is why photo below (once it became popular), was submitted to my mail dozen of times. At first I didn’t see anything. 

Then I spotted what seemed to be not much of an illusion, but something more on the “offensive” side. I never even considered publishing this photo on Mighty Optical Illusions, until Jay Kleinrichert explained the secret. Boy was I mislead until that particular moment! This is truly a great find. 

Those of you who still don’t get it, be sure to check Dirty Minded Test – it might give you a clue. I won’t talk any further, chances are I could ruin the illusion for you accidentally.

Sexy Hairy Shoulders Illusion

I had this one on my drive for some time now, but only recently did it became very popular around the net. Sometimes I have to be governed by masses, and appears masses like this one. I don’t think the effect is stronger than our recent armpit illusion, which was shot in a similar manner, but I hope it will deceive some of you.

It appears as if the girl posing in this photo has a very ugly and hairy shoulder, but in reality it’s just some guy’s leg “ruining” the picture.

Stop Staring, Find The Animals!

Maxime Euzière found a pretty interesting spot the object picture, which he decided to share with us. At first I couldn’t see it, so I showed it to few of my internet-friends, and asked if they could point out the illusion. 

After hearing bunch of childish comments, ones I can’t believe I’m sharing here (“She’s not in the kitchen!”, “Tree is missing a finger“, and like), one person managed to spot an elephant, a dolphin, a duck, a crocodile and two monkeys. Yes, it has been photoshopped, but still good! Maxime added – there is also a beautiful damsel present…

The Fifth Face of Mount Rushmore

I’m not exactly sure if Jerome Santucci discovered this interesting phenomenon, or did he just report what he learned. Apparently, if you observe Mount Rushmore from certain point, you can see that four former US presidents aren’t the only ones present.

“Powers Of One” Illusion

ust because we haven’t talked about Bev Doolittle for some time now, doesn’t mean we think any less of her extraordinary talent. But there’s one great mistake I keep repeating – each time we feature some of HER magnificent art, I wrongfully presume Bev is a guy. No matter how many times you corrected me on this, I keep forgetting what you have told me. I’d like to make up for this by sharing a short bio of the artist:

Bev Doolittle is one of America’s most collected artists. Crowded with intricate visual detail, haunted by presences seen and unseen, her paintings captivate the viewer on many levels. Traveling throughout the west in a camper, Bev had the luxury of time to develop her unique style. Her signature painting, “Pintos“, proved to be a dramatic departure point for Bev when her evolving style and technique merged with her love of nature to create what would become virtually a new genre.

She is often called a “camouflage artist” because her distinctive use of context, design and pattern help viewers discover meanings which seem hidden only until they become obvious.

Having all this in mind, after viewing rest of her opus (links in this article), try and see as many hidden animals there are in this picture. Don’t stop after you’ve only seen one or two – there are much more to be discovered!

How Does This Illusion Affect You?

I had troubles writing description for this illusion, since many people had different experience with it. Some said it gave them hedache, some thought they see imagionary cricles and spheres, some had opinnion that the image is “alive” and expanding… well, this is the reason I wont YOU to tell me what you think about it? 

If you don’t like it, feel free to say so! I hope that you appreciate my comments moderation, and how I always publish postive, as well as negative comments, as long as they aren’t rude. You might also wan’t to visit “Animations Category” for tons of cool stuff!

Lincoln Illusion

See this fine lady looking through a window in her room? I belevie she isn’taware that if you look at her from the distance, you will notice see she’s the part of a Lincoln’s face! Try it.. just slowly move away from this picture and the effect will come by it self. This wonderfull painting is done by a true artist, Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali Illusion

What do you see? The profile of Salvador Dali? Or maybe an odd-looking woman?