Funny Pictures - Optical Illusions

Try Counting The Black Dots
Which Centre Circle Is Bigger?
Disappearing Image
How Many Legs Does The Elephant Have?
Do You See The Face? Or An Eskimo?
Are The Horizontal Line Parallel, Or Do They Slope?
It's Brilliant!
Eye Test
Close Your Eyes

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Try Counting The Black Dots

Illusion using vision persistence.

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Which Centre Circle Is Bigger?

Illusion using local comparison.

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Disapperaring Image

Illusion where brain deletes non changing information.

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How Many Legs Does The Elephant Have?

Topological games in the style of Escher.
Locally it makes sense, but the whole is impossible.

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Do You See The Face? Or An Eskimo?

We always interpret images firstly as things we are most familiar with.

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Are The Horizontal Line Parallel, Or Do They Slope?

Particulartly difficult one this.

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It's Brilliant!

It's brilliant....remember all those 3D puzzles of a couple of years ago?

Try this. It's pretty cool. Try not to cheat & look at the answer.

Stare at the following and see if you can find the hidden image... You'll be quite amazed when it comes into view. (start as close to the screen as you can and then move back about 30 cm):

*******************************************************
****\|||||{{{{{######****>>>>>>""""""x"x"&&&^^^<<<""""~
+=**++++*****++++++++++++++?????????????/////////////%%
||||||@@@@@444+=+=****&^"""""""}}}}}}}]]]]]]]<<<<<<<%%$
>=/////////^^!~~~~~::---))))*****+++@@@@@@@@<%%%]]^*/=
]\\\\\///////*****<<<<<<<{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}%%%%~~~~@!!!
&??===~!~!~!~!=====++(*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*)----------%%%%*
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** If you have trouble and don't see it, try getting close to the screen and relax your eyes - let them nearly go cross-eyed....

Remember what you saw and click 'Reveal' for the answer.



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Eye Test

The text on this picture is visible from a distance, but difficult to read close up. It says:-
"No Sex Causes Bad Eyes"

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Close Your Eyes

Follow the instructions on the picture.
This one leaves an image on your retina.

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