More Amazing Illusions !!!

Amazing Dragon -Who follows you !!

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 This is a wonderful optical illusion. This little dragon is made out of paper - you simply cut it out and stick it together, and stand it on a table or window ledge. But when you move around, the dragon's head seems to follow you around the room. Have a look at the video, to see what we mean. The effect is really uncanny.

How does it work? If we move around when viewing a solid object, our brain knows how the object we are looking at should behave. However the dragon gives us the wrong clues, because we mis-interpret what its shape is. We assume that the nose of the dragon is pointing out towards us, but in fact the dragon's head is concave.

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The Amazing Work is done by the American company ThinkFun (formerly Binary Arts), who sell a wide range of fun toys. Visit the ThinkFun web site to see the wide range of wonderful things they have on offer.
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The Moving Cogs :-   

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  Looks like someone has invented perpetual motion - these cogs are certainly never going to stop moving!
Mr. Shebzukhov from Moscow in Russia created this illusion in October 2004, and owns the copyright. This and other illusions can be seen on the 'friend section of the web site belonging to Mr A Kitaoka, from Japan.
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 Find the Missing People :-

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  The Generals Family !!

There are 9 people in this picture, called The Generals Family, which is a work by the Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo. There are nine different faces in this picture combining to make up the face of the General and to tell the story and the secrets of his life. Although perceived as a distinguished gentleman of solid stock, the images of his past betray his emergence from a peasant family and his impoverished beginnings. We see his mother and father, his wife and other members of his family, even his dog (masquerading as his hand) and as you study the painting you see behind the facade and read the story of a remarkable life...

Official site for Octavio Ocampo.

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An AfterImage -- What did you see ?

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The Impossible Blocks 

Try to guess, if arranging the blocks in this manner is possible ?(Download)

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Are the Circles Moving Right or Left ?

Concentrate on the Circles, Are they moving right or left ?(Download)

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!!! Moving Rings !!!

These rings are is motion or not? If you can’t see them in motion just move your eyes 2- 3 times from one to another and you will see them in motion.(Download this Illusion)

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!!! Moving Roof !!!

 

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!!! Individually Moving Circles !!!

Concentrate on the center of this image and this star will become in motion.You can see them individually also that is even a smaller portion becomes in motion.(Download)

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!!! Anticlockwise Moving Arrows like Circles !!!

 These rings are moving but the total picture is in actual Not Moving. This is what we call a Moving Illusion.

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Illusion --- A Myth but Interesting !!!

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(Source of the Illusions)

 
              An Optical Illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually percieved images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a percept that does not tally with a physical meaurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types : Literal Optical Illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, Physiological Illusions that are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type(brightness, tilt, color, movement), And, the Cognitive Illusion where the eye and brain make unconscious inferences.


Now, leaving behind the Technical explaination of the Illusion, we get straight to Interesting Part of these Illusions.

Scintillation Grid :- 

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A Great Illusion!

Just count the little black balls...
There are different names for this illusion, but the Scintillation Grid is probably the proper name. This illusion was found by Elke Lingelbach of the Institut fur Augenoptik Aalen in Germany, and is a modification of an illusion called the Hermann Grid, which dates from 1870!

Moving Wave :-

  This is one of those illusions that just seems to move, even though it is in fact completely still.
This wonderful illusion was created by A.Kitaoka in 2004, who owns the copyright. You can see more illusions on his web site.
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The Amazing Dots :- 

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 Watch the X in the middle very closely. You should start to see a green dot that rotates around the circle - this dot is an illusion.
Tthen you should see see the purple dots disappear.... but they haven't really gone. It is an after image effect, sometimes called a 'negative retinal afterimage' - move your head slightly, and the dots will reappear... amazing or what?

 This illusion was designed by Jeremy L Hinton of Bristol, UK, and this illusion - with a lot more explanation and many other illusions as well - can be found at the web site of Michael Bach.

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