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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. Penrose triangle - Wikipedia

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    Penrose triangle. The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, the impossible tribar, [1] or the impossible triangle, [2] is a triangular impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing.

  4. 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.

  5. Impossible trident - Wikipedia

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    An impossible trident with backgrounds, to enhance the illusion Roger Hayward's Undecidable Monument. An impossible trident, [1] also known as an impossible fork, [2] blivet, [3] poiuyt, or devil's tuning fork, [4] is a drawing of an impossible object (undecipherable figure), a kind of an optical illusion. It appears to have three cylindrical ...

  6. The internet has been destroyed by this optical illusion of ...

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    According to Reddit user Canadian_Ireland, the real explanation behind the mind-numbing 'illusion' is actually quite simple. "The second girls legs are behind first girls legs," they wrote.

  7. Jastrow illusion - Wikipedia

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    The Jastrow illusion is an optical illusion attributed to the Polish-American psychologist Joseph Jastrow. [1] This optical illusion is known under different names: Ring-Segment illusion, Jastrow illusion, Wundt area illusion or Wundt-Jastrow illusion. [2] The illusion also occurs in the real world.

  8. Penrose stairs - Wikipedia

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    The Escherian Stairwell is a viral video based on the Penrose stairs illusion. The video, filmed at Rochester Institute of Technology by Michael Lacanilao, was edited to create a seemingly cyclic stairwell such that if someone walks in either direction, they will end up where they started. [ 12 ]

  9. Shepard elephant - Wikipedia

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    Shepard first published this optical paradox in his 1990 book Mind Sights (page 79) giving it the name "L'egs-istential Quandary". [2] It is the first entry in his chapter on "Figure-ground impossibilities". The pen-and-ink drawing is based on a dream Shepard had in 1974, and on the pencil sketch he made when he woke up. [2]