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  2. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The barber pole illusion is a visual illusion that reveals biases in the processing of visual motion in the human brain. Benham's top: When a disk that has lines or colours on it is spun, it can form arcs of colour. Beta movement: Movement that appears to occur when fixed pictures turn on and off. Bezold Effect

  3. Illusion optics - Wikipedia

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    An illusion device is how illusion optics works—without a device there is no way to define how light is refracted and deflected. Based on a study on circular objects with illusion optic properties, (i.e. negative refraction indexes) there are three basics of an illusion device: the invisibility cloak, real object, and illusion object. [3]

  4. Irradiation illusion - Wikipedia

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    The irradiation illusion is an illusion of visual perception in which a light area of the visual field looks larger than an otherwise identical dark area. It was named by Hermann von Helmholtz around 1867; [1] but the illusion was familiar to scientists long before then; Galileo mentions it in his 1632 book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. [2]

  5. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Physiological illusions arise in the eye or the visual pathway, e.g. from the effects of excessive stimulation of a specific receptor type. [4] Cognitive visual illusions are the result of unconscious inferences and are perhaps those most widely known. [4]

  6. Category:Optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present. Contents Top

  7. Globe effect - Wikipedia

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    The globe effect, also known as rolling ball effect, is an optical illusion which can occur with optical instruments used visually, in particular binoculars or telescopes. If such an instrument is rectilinear, or free of rectilinear distortion, some observers get the impression of an image rolling on a convex surface when the instrument is panned.

  8. The optical illusion hidden in the 'Mona Lisa' explained - AOL

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    Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling. There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research ...

  9. Anorthoscope - Wikipedia

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    He sent a box with the instrument to Michael Faraday on 8 January 1836, since they both studied this type of optical illusions. [7] Faraday had previously inspired Plateau to use a mirror with revolving discs, which helped Plateau to develop his Fantascope a.k.a. Phénakisticope. Faraday thought the anorthoscope was a beautiful machine with an ...