December 2008

Merry Christmas Illusion

Wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.-Love, Peace

Palm Tree Shadow Optical Illusion is a clever way to raise awareness about saving trees.There's nothing unusual about this shadow of a palm tree - except when you see that there is no palm tree around to be found. Just a concrete pylon within a courtyard with a painted-on shadow. The concrete pillar is lettered with "Nothing can replace a tree".A good way to send a message.

Magic Tray Optical Illusion

Just turn the image upside-down and the wine glass will be seen standing outside the tray (restore the picture). This illusion was invented by G. Sarcone for a sciences festival on optical illusions.

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Ponzo Optical Illusion

The Ponzo illusion is an optical illusion that was first demonstrated by the Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo (1882-1960) in 1913. He suggested that the human mind judges an object's size based on its background.

The typical example of this is the figure below. This is the typical railroad track scheme usually used to represent this illusion. The vertical lines appear to go off into the distance like train tracks. This gives us the impression that the line in the distance is larger then the line that appears to be nearer to the viewer.

Seeing this illusion against a great real photo backdrop can be amazing. Most of the time people pick train tracks. Below is an outstanding photo that presents this optical illusion slightly different...

The two red lines below are duplicates, they are the exact same size. Which image is more convincing the one with two lines or the one with four lines?

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Expanding and Shrinking Flowers Illusions

The above image appears to expand and the below images appears to shrink in the middle.

Marigolds Expanding and Shrinking Illusions

Bending White Lines Illusion

The White Lines in between the Circles appears to bend.

Impossible Traingle Structure

Can you say which box is going in which angle ? This is so amazing.

Illusion with Water

Everyone has probably seen this illusion. Due to the difference in water and air refraction illusion of the pencil break.

Cold Eeze Multiple Meaning Ads

One of the most creative and Clever Ad. When you flip the face it turns happy to sad, although the technique has been used before, but it still has impact.Really great work by Advertising Agency: Merkley + Partners, New York City, USA.Ads Message : Get well sooner.

Smiling Moon : Planets Align in a Frown

Monday night (December 1, 2008) there was a bright cosmic frown in the sky. The planets Jupiter and Venus briefly aligned forming two eyes and a moon forming a smiling mouth.

Jupiter is much larger than Venus, it appeared dimmer, because the latter planet is so much closer to Earth.Plus, Jupiter is much farther away from the sun than Venus, so the light bouncing off it is much less intense than the light bouncing off Venus, which hasn't had to travel so far.

It is called a planetary conjunction, the two planets —the brightest in the night sky — appeared extremely close. They won't be this close together and well-placed for viewing again until May 2013.