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30+ of the World's Coolest Optical Illusions [PICs]

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  • ScottMcIntyre, on 08/29/2008, -6/+15That one with the elephant is amazing
  • skewl, on 08/29/2008, -7/+15 Amazing Elephant
  • fadeedaf, on 08/29/2008, -4/+17Stuff that I haven't actually seen on the internet before, now that's an illusion. Dugg for Elephant.
  • euphoria860, on 08/29/2008, -1/+17which elephant is everyone talking about, the hand elephant or the other unimpressive elephant.
  • njetx, on 08/29/2008, -2/+6The photos at the bottom are the best. Very original. Escher is cool but you grow out of him.
    • Llanowar, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3I don't think I'll ever grow out of him.
      Of course anyone interested in such art has seen his works a thousand times. But, to me at least, they remain highly impressive.
  • badwithcomputer, on 08/29/2008, -0/+35Illusions, Michael!
  • ishnupu, on 08/30/2008, -7/+6I shat bricks, twice.
  • tikiman453, on 08/30/2008, -15/+2http://www.myspace.com/russiancircles
    go there. listen to harper louis. it's incredible.
    that is all.
    • compulsive1, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1Indie? Yes
      Experimental? Not in the slightest
      Progressive? You got to be kidding. That ***** stopped being progressive 20+ years ago.
    • Sabretou, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1Polite spambot is spammy.
    • tikiman453, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1just thought i'd share some sweet tunes. and those genre titles are merely speculation. i thought it was pretty good.
  • anty45, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1nice
  • sadsadrobot, on 08/30/2008, -0/+18Only saw 4 Fs no matter how many times I read it
    • statuescrumble, on 08/30/2008, -9/+2You're right, it was a trap, the explanation is wrong, there are actually only 4 "F'S.


      jk ;)
    • maddhopps, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5I knew the trick, and I STILL only counted 5 Fs. Apparently I suck at life...
      • Lith25, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1hehe I knew the trick as well, and only counted 5 the first time. I even made it a point to count the f's in OF and still missed one.
    • hawk3210, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2I never knew the trick, but I feel like an idiot now. :(

      Curse you brain and your incompetence!
    • willster580, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I think that if I had been extremely high while reading that, my head would have exploded. Seriously.
    • npowel, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I only got 3 :(
      I even read it carefully about 4 times, I was like "wtf, how can this be an illusion? There's just 3!"
    • behemothzero, on 08/30/2008, -0/+0I got four. Didn't see the first two instances of "of" in three tries. Damn.
    • DonCreech, on 08/30/2008, -0/+0Good thing I somehow remember what an 'F' looks like and was able to see six of them. Every time. I don't get how this is an illusion - seventeen words? Just look for the F's, they're not hiding!
  • TalSiach, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3I love the 20 Shekels Israeli bill illusion , pretty funny!
  • Stuchus, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3I was glad to see M.C. Escher but no Salvador Dali? That kind of made me sad.

    Some of my personal favorites.
    http://www.virtualdali.com/63FiftyAbstractPainting ...
    http://www.virtualdali.com/70HallucinogenousBullfi ...
    http://www.virtualdali.com/37SwansReflectingElepha ...
    http://www.virtualdali.com/39BallerinaInADeathsHea ...
  • eelwrolyat, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1I wish I could get a wallpaper of the first one.
  • geekyfrans, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1my eyes hurt!
  • seantubridy, on 08/30/2008, -2/+11Anyone got any pot?
  • MikeKnoop, on 08/30/2008, -0/+12The video isn't cool since they play it in a loop...

    -Mike
    • hawk3210, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Yeah, it was less cool when I found out that it does not actually cycle in any way. :(

      I was excited, too.
    • bubut, on 08/30/2008, -0/+8Thanks for signing your comment. I was like "whoa, who the F said that"
  • LiQuiDFeAR, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1This article kept me interested for about 15min, thank you :)

    EDIT: checking out the harper louis, not sure how it relates tho. SO far so good.
  • JoeyButler, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Realizing what the photograph of the mountains actually is, was the best part.
  • DeuceDiggalow, on 08/30/2008, -8/+2Optical illusions are the work of SATAN!!!!!!!!!! Go read the bible you devil worshippers!!!!
  • ImYourRealDad, on 08/30/2008, -1/+3Mother Nature is pretty hot.
    • DeuceDiggalow, on 08/30/2008, -5/+1Mother Nature is the work of SATAN!!!!!! Go read the bible!!!!!
  • lotec, on 08/30/2008, -2/+2i just shat bricks
  • nitesoIja, on 08/30/2008, -8/+1Here's one of the illusions in real life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU


    -amazing stuff
  • WhoDoneIt, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2What, no photo of any of the presidential candidates? Buried as inaccurate!
  • jheimark, on 08/30/2008, -1/+11still can't understand this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avi_abrams/2067186551 ...
    can anyone help?
    • mmarff, on 08/30/2008, -0/+15skull.
      her head is in the eye socket. the ruffled waist on her shirt forms the teeth.
      not a very good one in my opinion.
      • jheimark, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4thanks... i see it now.
      • hawk3210, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1Agreed. I saw it immediately, but it's not good.
      • soulonfire928, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I saw the ruffled waist forming the teeth...but I'm not really seeing the rest of it
      • Whitey07, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Cheers I saw it as soon as I read skull, weird.
  • virtualonliner, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3Tree of Faces is amazing. Being an Indian, my judgment might be biased. But it was cool to see great faces depicted like that.
    MK Gandhi, Lokmanya Tilak, Subhash Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shashtri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi are the ones I could see.
  • xrmb, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1please someone help me with the picture from Alexander... I dont see anything special.

    Its a face... I get it now :)
  • amheidt, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1It's a skull. The ruffles around her waist are the teeth.
  • Jobo50, on 08/30/2008, -4/+1These comments suck.
  • grason1129, on 08/30/2008, -4/+2this was not cool
  • daGUY, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Wow, I went over the "count how many Fs there are" thing about five times and I STILL missed two of them. Hahah.
  • topbob, on 08/30/2008, -2/+1That was pretty close to blog spam, but I guess I'll let this one slide...
  • videodroner, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2Impressive stuff. Truly magnificent.

    Nowadays people tend to swear they are an artist just because they can take an angled picture of themselves.
  • hillkiwi, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2I wish I could find a place to buy a print of this one:

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2294/2067189805_79e ...
    • krete, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2I don't see it.. what's going on in it?
      • bigk777, on 08/30/2008, -5/+0The leaves are escaping the picture frame. Also part of the frame it's self is part of the wall in the back ground.
      • spykez, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5There's a woman in there too.
  • zerodaysoon, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1wat about the suggestive one? the one with the leaves? i cant see what it is...help please
  • quiggibub, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2That blue triangle thing took me a few seconds to figure out. Once I figured out what was wrong with it, it seemed so obvious, but up till then, it was driving me insane.
    • soulonfire928, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Could you explain it then? Its still driving me insane.
  • ElectroStep, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2The Mona Lisa one is great. :)
    • Netrilix, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1That one is proof I sit too close to the screen... I couldn't see it until I got out of my chair while it happened to still be on the screen.
  • bigk777, on 08/30/2008, -1/+2I'm not seeing any thing in this picture:

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/2104411793_f52 ...

    Any one have any ideas?
    • scarwars, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6it's a face.. the two peaks in the middle are his eyebrows.. the middle bit his nose
  • MaxMWood, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1All the others I looked at and thought, "Hmm, cool" and then I was just looking at the Impossible Triangle and my eyes practically started spazzing out trying to follow it round and round. Kind of like I wasn't in control, how odd..
  • Eifandil, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2These are pretty much some of the coolest pictures ever.
  • Cottrell36thAIR, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3suxmonkey is a retard, most of those "optical illusions" are nothing but drawings that arent actually illusions at all. complete *****.
  • nabziF, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4The most impressive one in my opinion is back on page one, http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/10/optical-il ...

    The very first illusion, A and B are the same color. Quite convincing.
    • vantigo, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2I had to drop that into photoshop and paint white all around them until they looked the same. I wasn't even convinced by the eyedrop tool. Very cool.
    • Lith25, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I hate those color ones. I look at it and I swear to god it's a different color...but as vantigo mentioned, I too have dropped it into photoshop only to be proven completely wrong every time.
  • mKuenzel, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Look at me I made a perpetual motion device out of Geomag! However it can only be used for illusions, none of that science crap.
  • thegenome, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1the elephant illusion is really amazing
  • pobhockle, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Some of that was crap.
  • iPanda, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2More like 30+ interesting pictures.
  • danielgroves, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I love some of the artwork that came from the movements post world war. Really like some of the Surrealism pieces that are in their such good and twisted art.
  • njosnari, on 08/30/2008, -1/+0that elephant ***** sucked balls
  • gcman94, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1major headache
  • TheAxeDude, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1I dont get the "A Bird In The Bush" Picture...

    '_'
  • Vanderkeif, on 08/30/2008, -0/+0Wtf is with everybody and the elephant illusion, wasnt that great.
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