For years Julian Beever has created amazing street art. These “anamorphic illusions” are drawn at a special distortion that results in the 3D effect when seen from a specific distance and angle. The results are quite amazing.
When seen from the “wrong angle”, the true dimensions and distortion is clearly visible.

But seen from the right angle, [...]

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Here goes another set of amazing images! Enjoy!
 
Paris
What does it say here?
Really? Guess again. Check the bottom of this post for the answer.
 

 
Alien
The gray lines appear to be tinted pink, but they are not.
Also, there seems to be something moving along the spiral.

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Here goes another set of amazing images! Enjoy!
The Checker Shadow Illusion
This illusion, created by Edward H. Adelson is quite amazing. I had to verify in Photoshop before I was convinced. Hard to believe, but its true!
The squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray.

The full explanation [...]

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Amazing how our brain works. When first looking at this paragraph the words don’t necessarily appear to make any sense. However, if focus is placed on the beginning of the text, and you begin to read it, you’ll find no trouble at all doing so at a speed close to normal and its totally [...]

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Due to popular demand, you’ll now find an “Optical Illusions” link in the top navigation tabs. Every new post containing Optical Illusions will be added to that collection, so be sure to keep the link handy!
Here’s a list of all the pages in the Optical Illusions Collection. Enjoy!
Spinning Woman Optical Illusion
Optical Illusions - Part 2
Optical [...]

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I’m impressed with the rapid increase in visitors.
This screen is from the wordpress.com version of the blog, after about 15 days traffic was coming in from all parts of the world and generating over 100 daily visits.
There’s no easy way to migrate from one site to another. Thanks in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
Going [...]

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Not that I do, but the truth is that after migrating my wordpress.com blog to my own hosted version of Word Press, I have a renewed respect and appreciation for how easy and friendly things have gotten on the web. And hats of to Word Press as well for making this possible.
The instructions on how [...]

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Thank you for making the hike over from the other domain!
From now on please visit itaysworld.com directly. All the new posts will be made here.
In retrospect it would’ve made more sense to start the blog on its own domain from the beginning, to spare you (and myself- since the last 7 hours I’ve been fighting [...]

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Yet another installment of trippy, moving, jumping and growing optical illusions for your enjoyment.
Expanding Spheres

Jumpy Circles

Parallel Tracks

Marching Pigs

Psychedelic Flash

Hurricane Force

Slow Wheel

Rotating Cubes

Wavy Rivers

Curved Dominoes

Gears in Motion

Spreading Waters

Sunburst

Twisting Beans

Waving Flag

Spinning wheels

A Twist in the end

Some images from: Bilafoo.com
Enjoy and be sure to check out the rest of the series:
Optical Illusions - Collection Page

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Ok ok… maybe not quite, but I do find it funny that now I get a three way notification of incoming e-mails.
First, my Blackberry vibrates on my waist, that’s ‘Touch’
Second, Outlook pops up the ‘incoming message’ alert, that’s ‘Sight’
And third, with my new Logitech MX 5500 keyboard I get the beeping notification, that’s ‘Hearing’.
All within [...]

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