optical illusion

An image that tricks the brain into seeing something different from reality.

Examples

Ames room

Checker shadow illusion

Fluttering heart illusion

Forced perspective

Muller-Lyer illusion

Primrose field illusion

Rabbit-duck illusion

Figure-ground illusion or rubin vase illusion

Split depth

Impossible objects

Impossible architecture

Impossible cube

Impossible trident

Penrose stairs

Penrose triangle

Related tags

Fine art parodies

• l'amour de pierrot
• my wife and my mother-in-law
• m.c. escher

Others

• illusion grid t-shirt
• the dress (meme)

See also

• surreal
• when you see it
• misleading thumbnail

External links

• Wikipedia: List of optical illusions
• Wikipedia: Optical illusion

The following tags implicate this tag: figure-ground_illusion, fluttering_heart_illusion, and primrose_field_illusion (learn more).