The Art of the Illusion: Deceptions to Challenge the Eye and the Mind is a new book from Brad Honeycutt and Terry Stickels featuring a foreword by renowned puzzle creator and game designer Scott Kim.  The book contains more than 200 stunningly deceptive optical illusion works of art from artists around the globe.  The cover, […]

If you stare directly at the faces in this video, they will look completely normal.  If you stare at the cross, however, you will notice that the faces begin to look ugly and distorted. This illusion is known as the flashed face distortion effect and recently won second prize at the 2012 Best Illusion of […]

Colombian artist Cesar Del Valle draws realistic images using a pencil and paper.  Presented below is his drawing called “Retratos III 7” in which a man struggles to hold up the paper over his head as it appears to be crumpling on him.  It is almost as if he is doing everything in his power […]

Presented below is a series of black squares.  Do you notice anything peculiar about this pattern? As your eyes scan this matrix, do you see dark phantom dots appear in the white intersections?  This illusion was proposed by Ludimar Hermann in 1870.  As such, it is referred to as the Hermann grid illusion.