In honor of Halloween, I thought I would post up something that I find to be a little bit on the creepy side. Some artist (if you know who did this, please let me know and I can add a credit at the bottom of the post) decided to paint a full eye on the […]
Last month, winners were selected in a poster contest to spread the word about UN World Wildlife Day 2016. In total, over 300 entries were submitted and three of these submissions were selected as the overall winners. One of these posters, presented below, was created by Patrick George from the United Kingdom. It features two […]
Michael Murphy is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA and sculpture training from Kent State University and a MFA from the Art and Technology Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. One of his latest anamorphic installations titled Perpetual Shift consists of 1,252 wood […]
It has been a while since we featured one of Andreas Aronsson’s impossible figures. Depending on how you look at this figure, the small (blue) square is either on top of or below the larger (red) square.This figure was made during a particularly hectic time in Andreas Aronsson’s life as he was living out of […]
Look into the eyes of this beautiful woman and observe the color of each of her eyes. Most people will see the left eye appearing to be blue and the right eye appearing to be gray. Is that what you see? Would you believe that both eyes are in fact the same color? Both are […]
Over the past few months, we have had several requests for a mobile version of An Optical Illusion. We listened. Now you can view a simplified version of the site on your mobile device. At the bottom of the layout, you will also have the option to turn the new layout off and view the […]
One form of anamorphosis involves a deformed image that is painted on a flat surface, such as a sheet of paper. When a cylindrical (or sometimes conical) mirror is placed in the appropriate spot, the deformed image is suddenly transformed into something recognizable. In the example above by Hungarian artist István Orosz, a human eye […]
