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This staircase makes four 90-degree turns, yet forms a continuous loop that would not be possible in the real world.
Optillusions is a blog with more illusions like this. Pretty dumb, yes, but good for a laugh. And each post is handy for sending your annoying relative who forwards things to you constantly. Link -via Metafilter
In opposite to the World’s Oldest Optical Illusion? that was posted here at Neatorama around Christmas last year, here is one of the most recent optical illusions out there. It’s a piece of text that seems to grow and curve, especially when you look at the corners of the image.
The short answer is that our brains are programmed to see the world in three dimensions instead of two. There are more details at Discover magazine, as well as a gallery of colorful optical illusions. For example, these two Rubik’s cubes do NOT have the same colors. The “blue” squares in the left picture and the “yellow” squares in the right picture are gray.
I took samples from each and put them on a white field to make sure. Link
At some universities, students can design their own majors. Jordan Goldklang of Indiana University is an illusionist, and is majoring in magic:
Known as The Great Jordini to some, Jordan Goldklang is a senior from the San Francisco area. He is the only student at IU, and the only one in the U.S., who is majoring in magic — a major he created through IU’s Individualized Major Program.
Since then, he has devoted his time at IU to the major.
Tonight Jordan will present a magic show in Alumni Hall for his final project as an undergraduate. He’s hoping to sell out the venue, which holds 600 people. So far, he’s handed out 1,000 flyers, put up 3,000 posters and invited more than 1,000 people to the event on Facebook.
Link via Geekologie | Photo: Sevil Mahfoozi, Indiana Daily Student
There are some of the best optical illusios I’ve ever seen. They will totally mess with your perception. The best thing is that they are all in real places, not just pictures on a computer.
A nicely put together video clip, showing various optical illusions and other mind teasers.
You’ve probably seen a lot of them already – like the fact that it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae – but it doesn’t hurt seeing them again.
Link [Sclipo] – via Videofeber
