The Magic Hour: The Roy Sterling Story.
posted on Apr 21, 2008 - View this thread

Surreal photographic Foodscapes by photographer Carl Warner. Strawberry hot air balloons, towers of cheese, potato boulders, green pea boats on seas of salmon, spice roads, and sugar beaches populate these intricate and luscious scenes. More dishy foodscapes (the plate rainbow = ♥!) and other wonderful visual tricks at his Flash site in the "Fotographics" section (look for the fabulous forest of boots and the white cotton winter wonderland!).
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - View this thread

Holophonic sound is an audio recording technique which operates on a principle similar to Holography. The result has been reported to be realistic and life-like three dimensional sounding audio recordings.
posted on Dec 13, 2007 - View this thread

Atom. -- The Clash of the Titans -- The Key to the Cosmos -- The Illusion of Reality
posted on Nov 24, 2007 - View this thread

See For Yourself - Purves Lab's optical illusions web page with empirical explanations of familiar and unfamiliar illusions.
posted on Nov 16, 2007 - View this thread

Is the dancer spinning clockwise or counterclockwise? An optical illusion.
posted on Oct 8, 2007 - View this thread

Virtual Out-of-Body Experience. Using two procedures to deliberately scramble a person's visual and tactile senses, neuroscientists are able to induce "out-of-body" experiences in people. The effect is the same as the 'rubber hand illusion', but extends the effect to the whole body instead of just one limb (you can try the hand illusion for yourself).
posted on Aug 24, 2007 - View this thread

Garbage + illumination = art? Various artists carefully pile rubbish on a gallery floor, or meticulously assemble a collection of ordinary items, plug in a light source, and create incredibly detailed and surprising shadows on the wall. Meanwhile, blog commenters cry "Fake!" and "Photoshop!". I guess they didn't see any of the Quicktime movies of Shigeo Fukuda linked here.
posted on Jun 20, 2007 - View this thread

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures"
posted on Nov 7, 2006 - View this thread

Your daily dose of perception-bending. Stare at the center of this video (wmv or flash) for a minute or two then look away from the screen at your surroundings. You'll experience an interesting and somewhat disconcerting effect. Not appropriate for anyone prone to headaches or seizures.
posted on Aug 28, 2006 - View this thread

Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a program that can automatically generate a 3-D model from a single photograph, using machine learning. Take a look at this high-res comparison of original and generated images, also demonstration animations and downloadable videos (with executables). [via /. see also: a little on human 3d perception at everything2, groovy dragon illusion]
posted on Jun 14, 2006 - View this thread

An audio illusion called the tritone paradox is based on Shepard Tones, a finite self-similar sequence of tones that seem to contiually rise or fall in pitch. Diana Deutch has found that how you percieve these illusions can be strikingly different from person to person and that most people have some form of pefect pitch.
posted on Jun 14, 2006 - View this thread

The Death of Perspective. Among the greatest achievements of the renaissance artists was the perfection of the art of perspective: Giving the appearance of depth to a flat surface. Felice Varini uses perspective to do the opposite.
posted on Jun 9, 2006 - View this thread

Mr Angry & Mrs Calm. This illusion will BLOW YOUR MIND.
posted on Oct 25, 2005 - View this thread

hand paintings by Guido Daniele that apparently are not photoshopped; 3D sidewalk art using clever long-distance perspective; and some cool art samples created by hand or mouth, from paralyzed folks of The Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists.
posted on Oct 17, 2005 - View this thread

Masters of Deception "There are a number of incredible artistic works featured in Masters of Deception, which require movement to appreciate their full impact. Additionally, I had in my possession various interviews with some of the book's featured artists that I wanted to share with my readership. Unfortunately, the publisher was unwilling to produce a CD to accompany the book. I have created this web site, therefore, to augment and enhance the reader's experience by presenting those works and interviews that I could not present in book form." Al Seckel. enjoy.
posted on Aug 19, 2005 - View this thread

For the sake of your sanity, for five minutes this week forget the memos, the autopsies, the celebrity verdicts, and the rest. Go outside and look at the full moon, which will hang in the sky at its lowest point in 18 years over the next three nights, says NASA, creating the "summer moon illusion." If you're a US resident, calculate your local moonrise time here.
posted on Jun 19, 2005 - View this thread

Rapid Afterimage Optical Illusion
posted on Jun 6, 2005 - View this thread

Julians Beever draws on sidewalks with chalk. His drawings range from insects to commercial objects to self portraits. I don't know if he designs them on a his laptop, but as with LCD screens, viewing angle is critically important.
posted on Jun 4, 2005 - View this thread

The Human Condition. A Mac-based homage to Magritte. [via]
posted on Mar 29, 2005 - View this thread

Interesting Optical Illusion - and explanation. {It's just a single page with an image. Go on, click it!}
posted on Nov 13, 2004 - View this thread

Utterly terrifying! [Windows Media, from Grand Illusions]
posted on Nov 13, 2004 - View this thread

Red and green dots have never been so interesting. At least to a geek like me. I love it when my brain plays tricks on me.
posted on May 21, 2004 - View this thread

Remember the weirdness with Bush's hypnotic rainbow tie last week? Now you too can experiment with creating mesmerizing patterns on Project LITE's Moire page.
[via j-walk blog]
posted on Apr 19, 2004 - View this thread

The McGurk Effect
posted on Apr 16, 2004 - View this thread

The Thatcher Illusion (using Madonna) , the original, Bush
posted on Mar 21, 2004 - View this thread

Magic, Flim-Flam, and Deceptive Practices.
posted on Mar 12, 2004 - View this thread

You think it's moving but it's not.
posted on Jul 24, 2003 - View this thread

Optical Illusion This is the coolest optical illusion you'll ever see. Happy Friday. (Warming: .exe format, about 250k)
posted on Jan 10, 2002 - View this thread

The Oregon Vortex is a nice place to visit if you enjoy places where things roll uphill and things change size base on their position. Many have tried to figure it out. Physicist John Lister spent forty years there only to burn all his notes.

When is someone going to let the vortex genie out?
posted on Feb 20, 2001 - View this thread