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  2. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face. Hybrid image: A Hybrid image is an optical illusion developed at MIT in which an image can be interpreted in one of two different ways depending on viewing distance. Illusory contours

  3. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

  4. Op art - Wikipedia

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    Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. [1] Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or swelling or warping.

  5. Phantogram (optical illusion) - Wikipedia

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    Phantograms, also known as Phantaglyphs, Op-Ups, free-standing anaglyphs, levitated images, and book anaglyphs, are a form of optical illusion.Phantograms use perspectival anamorphosis to produce a 2D image that is distorted in a particular way so as to appear, to a viewer at a particular vantage point, three-dimensional, standing above or recessed into a flat surface.

  6. Forced perspective - Wikipedia

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    This image makes the Paranal Observatory's laser guide stars' meeting point feel closer than it really is. In reality, the beams extend to an infinite distance. Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.

  7. Optical illusion can tell if you need glasses - AOL

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    A few lines of text and the doctor can tell you whether you have poor vision. But let's be honest, that's boring. Back in 2007, scientists at MIT developed an optical illusion to determine if you ...

  8. Illusion - Wikipedia

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    The term illusion refers to a specific form of sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination, which is a distortion in the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of a true sensation. For example, hearing voices regardless of the environment would be a hallucination, whereas hearing voices in the sound of running water (or ...

  9. Multistable perception - Wikipedia

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    Examples of visually ambiguous patterns. From top to bottom: Necker cube, Schroeder stairs and a figure that can be interpreted as black or white arrows. Multistable perception (or bistable perception) is a perceptual phenomenon in which an observer experiences an unpredictable sequence of spontaneous subjective changes.