Mastodawn

A gorgeous ballroom in East Germany, with a beautiful curtain still hanging from the stage. A breeze is blows in through the open door, the curtains curiously do not move 🤔

April Fools! This is a “Trompe l’oeil”; the illusion of three-dimensional objects created by clever painting.

At the right-hand side, a tear in the artwork betrays it. A white stage door can be seen through the gap.

#AprilFools #Trompeloeil #Photography #Germany #Abandoned #Ballroom #OpticalIllusion #Trick #Urbex

Kevin Stevens 4d ago

Time out for fun:
https://optical.toys
#puzzles #opticalillusion

Optical Toys | Optical Illusions and Toys

A collection of optical illusions and optical toys by Toms Toys

Optical Toys

Metamere 6d ago

For last week's #CreativeCoding challenge topic of psychedelic, I took the Bezier shape triangle from my last #OpticalIllusion post and made it into a spiral configuration, with some trippy cascading motion. I sped it up for the video here, but you can control the speed to play it as slow as you want in this sketch (the full resolution and framerate and uncompressed will look a lot better of course):
https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2899986

#OpArt #WCCChallenge #MonochromeMarch

Maikel de Bakker Mar 27

Old paper money, seen from a different world.

For this series, I explored an idea using my Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens—diving deep into the details of historical banknotes. A friend kindly brought part of his collection, and this is one of the first results: a Belgian 100 franc note, captured at extreme magnification.

At first glance, you might think you’re looking into the eyes of a lady. But look again—this is actually part of a bearded man. When isolated like this, reality shifts. Scale changes perception.

What fascinated me most are the physical details: the thickness of the ink, the tiny fibers of the paper, and the precision of printing techniques from the early 2000s. These notes were not just currency—they were carefully engineered objects designed to resist forgery through complexity at both visible and microscopic levels.

Captured with my Canon 5DS R and Canon MP-E 65mm.

#MacroPhotography #MacroWorld #CanonMPE65 #Canon5DSR #CloseUp #ExtremeMacro #DetailPhotography #Texture #PaperTexture #InkDetails #Banknote #BelgianFranc #OldMoney #CurrencyArt #HiddenDetails #OpticalIllusion #AbstractPhotography #Perception #VisualIllusion #FineDetails #PhotographyTechnique #StudioPhotography #CreativePhotography #ExploringDetails #Magnification #MicroWorld #ArtInDetails #MoneyArt #HistoricalObjects #DesignDetails #WonderingLens #ByMaikeldeBakker #MaikeldeBakkerPhotography #PixelfedPhotography #LightAndLife #VisualStory #AbstractView #PhotographyArt #HiddenWorld #MacroShot

David Schmidt Mar 27

M.C. Escher remains the undisputed king of visual paradoxes. 🎨

Even when modern tech decodes his illusions, the real magic is how he dreamt up such complex compositions using nothing but a pencil and pure imagination. It is a humbling reminder that while computers are fast, the human mind is the original engine of infinite complexity. 🧠

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY

Which Escher piece has always left you scratching your head?

#MCEscher #OpticalIllusion #ArtHistory #CreativeGenius #HandDrawn

How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image

YouTube

Gregg Alley Mar 23

😮 #OpticalIllusion
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-color-is-this-dot-new-illusion-demonstrates-weird-vision-quirk/

What color is this dot? New illusion demonstrates weird vision quirk

An optical illusion with nine simple dots reveals a surprising amount about the eye and brain

Scientific American

★Pope Miller the Defondor, SBI Mar 18

Believe me, *nothing* in this picture is moving.

#OpticalIllusion

gmrstudios Mar 17

A Sense of Doubt blog post-4047 - This Optical Illusion will Mess With Your Mind. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-4047-this.html #opticalIllusion #science

Metamere Mar 17

It has been a while since I added anything to my interactive #OpticalIllusion collection. But I want to get back to doing more regular #CreativeCoding exercises, and this one seemed like a good quick project for this #MonochromeMonday.
https://openprocessing.org/sketch/1941150

I found inspiration from this webpage of various anomalous motion illusions:
https://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/motion20e.html
There are lots of cool ones there, though prolonged observation may induce dizziness or motion sickness.

spaceotter Mar 16

What do you see? Comment below.

#humor #humour #illusion #opticalillusion #context