Optical Illusions

**MohandasKGanja** · February 6th, 2013, 11:25 AM

I love the tubelike purple/black/green/white one. And the celeb/monster one.

20 Optical Illusions That Might Break Your Mind

Rubik's tricky cube

Source: brusspup

A trippy non animated classic

Source: Internet

Waving beans

Based upon the work of A. Kitaoka

Optical illusion wallpaper

Source: Krycha182

Rotating snakes

Based upon the work of A. Kitaoka

Another trippy classic: Rollers

Source: A. Kitaoka

Peripheral vision turns stars into monsters

Full size

Source: mbthompson.com

**Brookie** · February 6th, 2013, 11:38 AM

Love the peripheral vision one; the other ones were starting to bring on a migraine.

**SHELLEE** · February 6th, 2013, 01:10 PM

Those are cool.

**Waterslide** · February 6th, 2013, 01:39 PM

So why do we see monsters out of our peripheral vision anyway? Is it some kind of instinctual thing to make us perceive danger out of the corners of our eyes or something? That is so weird.

**Tati** · February 6th, 2013, 07:41 PM

^ I think it's something to do with seeing the two images together. In our peripheral vision, the differences in their facial features seem greatly exaggerated, making both celebs look monstrous in comparison to each other. Giant chin over there, freakishly dark eyes over here, that sort of thing. There was a thread or a post on here about it somewhere, I think, it was pretty cool.

**Waterslide** · February 6th, 2013, 07:45 PM

That is definitely really cool, I'll look around for the thread on that. I love that kind of stuff!

**OrangeSlice** · February 6th, 2013, 10:03 PM

I love that kind of stuff. Thanks for sharing. The Rubik's cube one reminds me of those sidewalk chalk artists that make those fantastic drawings that are to perspective only when looking at it dead on.

Like these from Julian Beever:

**Jazzy** · February 7th, 2013, 01:08 AM

Awesome, and reiterates I need glasses.

**faithanne** · February 7th, 2013, 03:55 AM

I love these too, thanks for posting. I think also with the distorted faces, if you look at each picture individually (and normally) they're all chosen because they accentuate each actor's biggest feature, like Chinny's chin or Nicole's giant forehead, or they look particularly broad faced like the one of Natalie Portman, which helps add to the exaggeration.

**JazzyGirl** · February 7th, 2013, 05:12 PM

Cool - i went inside the link to see them all and there is one at the end called rotating gears that does not seem to do anything (to my eyes anyway) I love this stuff. thanks for posting!

**A*O** · February 7th, 2013, 05:26 PM

Apart from the rubiks cube I got nuttin.

Julian Beever is a genius. Google Images.

**faithanne** · February 7th, 2013, 05:34 PM

None of them worked for me until I started moving my eyes over the image. If I just stare at the middle (like I normally do) nothing happens. I still can't get the rotating snakes to rotate, but the beans are now waving.