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  2. Wagon-wheel effect - Wikipedia

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    The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly than the true rotation, it can appear stationary, or it can appear to rotate in the opposite direction from the true rotation ...

  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. 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

  5. Thaumatrope - Wikipedia

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    A spinning rectangular thaumatrope with the alternating letters of the name "Victoria" on each side, showed the full word with the letters at two different distances from the observer's eye. If the two strings of the thaumatrope are attached to the same side of the card the thickness of the card accounts for a small difference in the distances ...

  6. Kinetic depth effect - Wikipedia

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    The Spinning Dancer is a kinetic, bistable optical illusion resembling a pirouetting female dancer. The dancer can be seen to be spinning alternately one direction, or the other. In visual perception, the kinetic depth effect is the phenomenon whereby the three-dimensional structural form of an object can be perceived when the object is moving.

  7. This optical illusion is baffling the internet - AOL

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    The latest optical illusion sweeping the internet is leaving many baffled. What looks like a simple picture is actually, very confusing. The picture features a drawing of bars, but no one can ...

  8. This optical illusion turns rectangles into circles and your ...

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    The illusion uses a set of six "cylinders" that are cut so that depending on the angle from which you look at them, they can appear to be either rounded or to have angled corners.

  9. Spinning dancer - Wikipedia

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    The spinning dancer is a kinetic, bistable optical illusion resembling a rotating female dancer. The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer.