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	Dynamic Optical illusions 3D and animation
pokkets
9-12-2007 12:45 AM
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pokkets says:
I thought I'd seen plenty of optical illusions, but some of these look really mind twisting. The way some move, and are coloured, can make you dizzy. I put in as many details as would fit, the lower explanations, are at the site. (A lot of the illusions don't need explaining.
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9-12-2007 1:59 AM
neochonetes
I have a love/hate relationship with visual illusions. I love to look at them, but I hate the feeling that I will be ill if I don't stop looking at them.
9-12-2007 11:12 AM
jussyRider
I like the Ambiguity one best.
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Many pictures are enhanced via the use of 3D and animation.</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html">
Even though a few of the <B>optical illusions</B> here are already popular, I have enhanced many  of them by animating them in some way - rotating, squashing, switching, sliding - you name it. Also, many of the optical illusions on display I've actually made myself </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/913B0EDB-3054-4748-9F43-4AEBE2402CCB" alt="optical illusions 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html">
At first, there doesn't seem anything unusual about this picture. I mean, it's just a bunch of diagonal lines and a slightly distorted square in the middle - right? Wrong.
Believe it or not, the 4 lines that make up the square are actually perfectly straight.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html">
Each of the 3 curves shown below are sections of the circle.<BR /> Which would form the largest circle though?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/6774759A-EB23-4530-AA6F-1053C5BEF1D8" alt="optical illusions 3" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><SMALL> Answer at the bottom of the page.</SMALL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/036A020F-6A9B-4FEA-BEFB-317DEFFE2890" alt="optical illusions 2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><BIG>Rotating dot whirlpool</BIG><BR />Wow! Try staring at this for more than 5 seconds<BR /> without going crazy.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><H2><B _moz-rs-heading="">Skewed lines</B></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/C6643371-C23F-4D43-AF01-D1E8A3280DE2" alt="optical illusions 4" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html">Primrose's field</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html">created by <A title="Akiyoshi Kitaoka optical illusions" href="http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html">Akiyoshi Kitaoka</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/783E50B0-2774-42F8-9CFC-DCF0DF8DA0C1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><H2>A Bulge</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html">
Also created by Akiyoshi</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/BF34438E-4B86-4400-8541-8D7C50247461" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><H2>Multi Cube</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/FDEDBF01-EF59-4173-AA1B-D4F1DB6688D2" alt="optical illusions 5" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><H2>The glowing core</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/A2C99A01-5679-4548-9990-80B3ECF9D351" alt="optical illusions 6" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/B52EA862-9A4C-40FF-BD32-E002946C1314" alt="optical illusions 7" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/32EA6814-80A1-43AD-8A2B-9980FEBF4C79" alt="optical illusions 9" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/FE154551-5214-4605-89AE-FC771FB3651D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><FONT color="#00ff00"><BIG><B>Fade</B> illusion</BIG></FONT>
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/57353CEE-B910-410D-B131-27FBA6DAA52E" alt="optical illusions 9" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#003060"><tr><TD background="glowdotb.png"><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/6BE90D0F-74D6-4253-81DC-0E8C74AF3187" alt="optical illusions 10" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/664EDBB5-0C78-4AF0-931F-21328CCF662E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/1AB85020-98CC-42AB-917E-35E8B8A8F19E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/D8D4DE80-C309-4D61-B644-5F6A40311EE5" alt="optical illusions 11" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/2D0B8B14-8E28-4452-A2C7-11376EF0273B" alt="optical illusions 12" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/E3DFEAA5-4819-4689-ABDF-7B2E1FA51277" alt="optical illusions 13" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/19C98D8E-56F4-498F-8D02-1C65E7BCAEE9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#80d080"><tr><TD background="rotsnakes3.png"></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/55A9AF99-C5BE-4FE2-A3F8-1B3D7C297093" alt="optical illusions 14" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.skytopia.com/img/4BB6F293-9794-43AF-85F1-02E24EF53030" alt="optical illusions 16" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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