24 Photos Capturing Optical Illusions in Real Life
Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us, even in the wild.
Published 10 months ago in Wtf
Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us, and clever people take full advantage of that when designing their fun 2D optical illusions in the back pages of your newspaper's comics section. But those same illusions can happen out in the wild if you're looking at things with just the right angle.
These 24 pics are of real things in the real world but play tricks with our eyes and our brains nonetheless.
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Sandwich or shoe?
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Young girl posing with a bag of popcorn.
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A shot of Burning Man that looks like a solar system.
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“It looks like a mockup or a giant, but it's just me on the second floor.”
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"My pet bird taking a bath looks like it's being boiled alive."
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The sky is missing some pixels.
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Trippy view of Radisson hotel in Niagara Falls.
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Estonian javelin thrower Magnus Kirt appearing to impale himself.
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This is a wall, not a lake.
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These are the same photo side by side.
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The Ponzo illusion. Each van is the same size.
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Three more examples.
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White-Gold or Black-Blue?
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At first you see a rock floating in the air.
