Amazing Illusions

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Find the Fault

A wonderful depiction of traffic in the thirties (the era these puzzle cards come from). What is wrong in this picture ? The English drive on the left so that's not it.

Do you see two or three elegant women? Illusions that generally feature two figures whose contours match seamlessly the contours of another figure inducing the viewer with a mental choice of two interpretations, each of which is valid, are related to Rubin’s vase illusion, named after the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin who introduced this illusion in his work 'Synsoplevede Figurer' ("Visual Figures") published around 1915.

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Find 6 Visual Errors

Take a closer look and find the things which don't look normal in this image.

Amazing Illusionary Brain Twister

Here’s one of classic examples how our brain can easily be deceived. When you first look at the image below, red stripes seem to move in one direction only. Try focusing on the central dot… See how the stripes started moving in the opposite direction? You can repeat this process as many times you want, it works all the time!

Amazing Brain Twister

The F Word Illusion - II

Count the F's in the image below first.In the paragraph below there are 10 F's! Most people under estimate the number of F's because they fail to notice them in the word 'of'. Function words like 'of' are unconsciously processed by our brain because they aren't important.

Mystery Picture Illusion

Follow the instructions on this antique card. It is a classic image impression on retina trick. This is quite impressive.

Instructions-Take card in both hands,look steadily at small diamond shaped speck on nose try not to blink and count to 40 slow,then follow any of the instructions listed.

Look up at the sky day or night or on a light wall and photograph will appear greatry enlarged.Keep looking at one spot for 10 seconds.

Result-The actual photograph will appear and disappear severral times.

"Watch at the mark on the image near nose for 20 seconds and then quickly look at white space,you will see the image appearing".
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Find the Mistress

Try to find the Mistress in this picture .If you dont get it look on the second picture at the maide hair.

Word Association Illusion with Mathematics

I recently heard illusionist Criss Angel on a radio show discussing his work. The key to any illusion is convincing the audience that they’re somewhat in control of what they’re experiencing, when in fact the illusionist is controlling the situation.

To illustrate this, Criss tried something live on the air, claiming that he was going to control the masses. However, he made an error in his delivery, and it didn’t work. I backed up a bit and broke it down, pinpointing the error. It’s actually very cool. Try it on your friends.

Here it is, with the corrections, along with one embellishment:

Men: Think of an odd number between 1 and 10.

Ladies: Think of an even number between 1 and 10.

I’m going to state some words after each number. When you hear your number, remember the word. Here we go:

1. Precious metal
2. Yarn
3. Cutlery
4. Golden color
5. Highly polished
6. Ball
7. Sharp
8. Cat’s toy
9. Kitchen utensil
10. Round

Now, everybody should be thinking of the word associated with their number. I want everybody to forget their number and think of their word. Now I’m going to rattle off some objects. When you hear an object that you can associate with your word in the best possible way, I want you to lock on to that object.

– Blue felt tip pen
– Penny postage stamp
– Carving knife
– Yellow ball of yarn
– Original oil painting
– Old felt hat
– South sea island
– Western stage coach
– Antique clock
– China coffee cup

Now everybody should have the final word they’re thinking of. Envision it falling from the sky towards you. You might want to step out of the way, since you’re probably thinking of a carving knife.

Ladies need not worry, because they’re thinking of a yellow ball of yarn.

For comparison, below is Criss’s delivered version, with the embellishment and error in bold:

Men: Think of an odd number between 1 and 10.

Ladies: Think of an even number between 1 and 10.

I’m going to state some words after each number. When you hear your number, remember the word. Here we go:

1. Precious metal
2. Yarn
3. Cutlery
4. Golden color
5. Highly polished
6. Ball
7. Sharp
8. Cat’s toy
9. Carving tool
10. Round

Now, everybody should be thinking of the word associated with their number. I want everybody to forget their number and think of their word.Now I’m going to rattle off some objects. When you hear an object that you can associate with your word in the best possible way, I want you to lock on to that object.

– Blue felt tip pen
– Penny postage stamp
– Shining silver
– Carving knife
– Yellow ball of yarn
– Original oil painting
– Old felt hat
– South sea island
– Western stage coach
– Antique clock
– China coffee cup

Now everybody should have the final word they’re thinking of. Envision it falling from the sky towards you. You might want to step out of the way, since you’re probably thinking of a carving knife.

Ladies need not worry, because they’re thinking of a yellow ball of yarn.

Note here that I changed Criss’s ‘9. Carving tool‘ to ‘9. Kitchen utensil’, just to make it less obvious what’s happening. The error lies in the second batch of words that he rattled off, which included Shining silver. It was Shining silver that I locked onto, when in fact he’d intended me to think about the Carving knife.

This illusion reminds me of another classic that’s been around for a while. Max Maven told it to me once at the Magic Castle. Good stuff. The key is the delivery; keep talking quickly and don’t lose control of the situation. If you pause too long, you give the audience the opportunity to think of the less obvious objects.

It goes like this:

Think of a number between 1 and 10, but don’t tell me.

Now double it.

Now add 8 to that. You have new number.

Take your new number, and divide it by 2. You have a new number once again.

Now, I want you to subtract your original number from the number you have now. Concentrate on this number.

Let’s switch gears. I want you to think of the letter in the alphabet that corresponds with your number. That is, if your number is 2, think of B. If your number is 3, think of C. And so on.

Concentrate on that letter. Got it? OK, now, think of a country that begins with that letter. Can be anywhere. Got it? Great. Now concentrate on your country.

With your country in your mind, let’s go to the next letter in the alphabet. So, if your country begins with B, go to letter C. And so on.

You’re now thinking of your country and your other letter. Now, think of an animal that begins with that other letter. Got your animal? Good. Now concentrate and visualize the color of that animal. Got it? Good. Now concentrate on three things: your country, your animal, and the color of the animal. Try to see it in your mind.

Just remember that there are no grey elephants in Denmark.

Birthday Puzzle

Can you find all the letters of the alphabet hidden in the picture below?

9 Differences in this Class Picture

This type of puzzles is always been attracting to me and i really feel great when i find all the diferences.If you feel bored try doing these types of brainy things these are always so intresting.
There are 9 Differences in this Picture can you spot them all?
If you had got whole 9 or less, do tell me, i had also given all
9 Differences Answer below on link.

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Answer

Coffer Illusion

First time viewers of this display invariably do not see the 16 circles segmented from the background. Rather, they see a series of rectangles that they frequently describe as “door panels”. The illusion pits segmentation cues against what appears to be a very strong prior to interpret the image as a series of 3-D structures “coffers” with closed boundaries. (A coffer is a decorative sunken panel.) It appears that the prior involves both closure and shape-from shading assumptions. The Coffer Illusion is a variation on Gianni Sarcone’s “Op Art illusion”.

Vanishing Egg

Who stole the egg from Chiquita our favourite chicken? As you can see on the 4-piece puzzle in A, there are 8 eggs... Now if we permute the triangular pieces an egg Dissapears along with portion of the puzzle (see B)!