Optical illusions are images made to confuse the human eye so the image looks like something other than what is actually depicted. Such images almost become a test where, almost always, there is not even a right or a wrong answer, there is only one's point of view, what one's mind wants to see.
There are several websites with funny and strange optical illusions, here we see 5 of the best ones on which to look at impossible photos, stereograms, 3D and moving images .
1) Optical Spy is the ideal site to find dozens of original optical illusions, visual challenges and incredible designs. The site is divided into several categories, and includes a blog where you can read about special visual effects and why they occur.
2) Mighty Optical Illusions is one of the only optical illusions sites which is regularly updated with new images to watch to confuse the ideas.
The various illusions are organized into categories so you can choose the kind of image.
There are also 3D optical illusions, scary illusions, impossible photos, special photomontages and much more.
This site is a blog that every day offers new images to look at and photos published by artists.
In each article it is explained, in English, how the magical illusion was made.
3) Illusion of the year has pages with the top rated and most popular optical illusions.
4) BrainBashers is a website dedicated to fun optical illusions for lovers of fictions and moving images.
Most of the illusions about Brain Bashers are interactive and can be moved with the mouse.
5) Pinterest is the ideal place to find new illusions and visual games.
6) Michael Bach's site has a beautiful collection of optical illusions of the moving image genre, those to be looked at to make one's head spin or where one does not understand the direction in which the wheel or dancer turns.
Most of the illusions are interactive, so you can put the image on the full screen or you can change other parameters making the animations more or less fast.
Each illusion is explained in detail with also scientific and medical explanations.
Note the two disturbing eyes that follow the mouse on the main page ...
7) EyeTricks presents some classic 3D optical illusions and tests with 3D stereograms, those images that were in fashion in the 90s, where you have to understand what was depicted inside a poster that, at first glance, seems only made of lines and random colors.
To see the three-dimensional images, there are instructions that indicate how to look and how to search within the image.
It will probably take some initial effort to understand how they should look but then it should be easier.
8) If you like stereograms, the Easy stereogram builder site allows you to create them yourself with a simple editor and with your own photo inside.
You can also write hidden text displayed in 3D.
Each new creation is published on the site gallery.
9) Ilusiones Opticas is an updated Spanish blog with videos of optical effects .
There are hidden images, impossible photos, ambiguous illusions, tests and puzzles.
10) Finally, you can download for free the small Real Moving Optical Illusions program to see images on PC that create very funny and special animated optical illusions.
