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On the Web
- Free Optical Illusions Website - A selection of optical illusions including an optical illusion quiz.
- Eluzions' Optical Illusions - Contains many optical illusions, illustrating a wide range of visual anomalies and surprising optical effects. A free screensaver, posters, and educational explanations are also provided.
- Brain Teasers - Scary Optical Illusions - Includes ambiguity pictures, scary equivocal illusions, and moving objects illusions.
- Cool Optical Illusions - A growing collection of optical illusions and eye tricks, including original illusion pictures and a collection of optical illusion desktop wallpaper.
- Eluzions' Optical Illusions - Contains many optical illusions illustrating a wide range of visual anomalies and surprising optical effects. A free screensaver, posters, and educational explanations are also provided.
- Braingle's Optical Illusions - Dozens of optical illusions to tease your brain.
- Eyetricks.com: Optical Illusions - Collection of optical illusions, brain teasers and games.
- Optical illusion - A large collection of optical illusions.
- Just Optical Illusions - Focus on geometric optical illusions by Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie J. Waeber
- Skytopia - Dynamic Optical Illusions - A selection of old, new and original optical illusions. Many pictures are enhanced via the use of 3D and animation.
Wikipedia Articles
- Op art - Op art, also known as optical art, is used to describe some paintings and other works of art which use optical illusions. Op art is also referred to as geometric abstraction and hard-edge abstraction, although the preferred term for it is perceptual abstraction.
- Devorah Sperber - Devorah Sperber is an American installation artist known for creating works out of spools of thread, chenille pipe cleaners and map tacks that act as optical illusions.New York Times articleSome of her work has involved using thousands of spools of thread to create pixilated versions of iconic works of art by famous artists.
- Antiobjects - The notion of antiobjects is a computational metaphor useful to conceptualize and solve hard problems by swapping computational foreground and background. Similar to optical illusions based on potential confusion of background versus foreground perceptions, antiobjects are the inverse of what we perceive to be the computational objects.
- Rubin vase - Rubin's vase (sometimes known as the Rubin face or the Figure-ground vase) is a famous set of cognitive optical illusions developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin. They were first introduced at large in Rubin's two-volume work, the Danish-language Synsoplevede Figurer ("Visual Figures"), which was very well-received; Rubin included a number of examples, like a Maltese cross figure in black and ...
- Edgar Rubin - Edgar John Rubin (September 6 1886 - May 3 1951) was a Danish psychologist/phenomenologist, remembered for his work on figure-ground perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase. He once worked as a research associate for Müller.