When an image contains too many visual elements, the brain becomes overloaded—and that’s exactly when hidden objects go ...

Optical illusions to find hidden numbers can trick your brain by hiding digits within a busy pattern like a grid of similar ...

A new optical illusion is going viral online, forcing people to put on their thinking caps to solve the puzzle. It shows three straight horizontal lines stacked vertically and asks a basic question: ...

Have you ever looked at something, only to realize it was something completely different? That’s the power of optical illusions: they trick our brain using color, light, and patterns. ‍ 勞 We’ve ...

A couple of years ago an optical illusion came along and almost broke our site. Over three million people read an article about the most dizzying illusion ever to grace our screens – the rotating ...

The Escher Loop optical illusion creates a staircase that appears endlessly climbable yet never reaches a higher point. Using impossible geometry and 3D depth tricks, the mind is fooled into ...

Nature has a mischievous side, and sometimes it loves to play tricks on our eyes. The world is full of illusions that look too strange to be real, yet they´re all natural or naturally captured. These ...

Optical illusions occur naturally in different habitats and conditions across the world. Cloud formations can sometimes make it seem like there's an ocean or a UFO in the sky. Whether it is salt flats ...

The art of optical illusion has been an integral part of painting since antiquity when it was used as a yardstick by which to judge an artist's level of mastery. This book presents a fascinating ...