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Italian Job Mini Optical Illusion

12/31/2014

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Just stare at the red cross until the picture appears and see the colors of the Italian Job minis.
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Fun Fair Failure

12/30/2014

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Can you see what is wrong here? Image source unknown
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Angry or Calm Face Optical Illusion

12/29/2014

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Here are two faces an angry face on the left and calm face on the right. But if you move away from your computer screen you will see the two faces swap over! This hybrid image was created by Phillippe G. Schyns and Aude Oliva of the University of Glasgow.
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Spinning Grid Optical Illusion

12/28/2014

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Watch the large disc move and disappear (it doesn't actually disappear, it's always there you just can't see it). Now notice the little black dots in the disc, they disappear only when the disc is spinning.
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Merry Christmas Optical Illusion

12/24/2014

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Merry Christmas and seasons greetings to Optical Spy fans all around the world.
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Erik Soderberg's Fractal Experience

12/24/2014

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Erik Soderberg is an artist specializing in creating and editing images for print and web. Erik explains his visual work like this:-

'Visual perception is my strongest sense. I've always been drawing and early started to take photographs. Before starting my freelance career I worked five years with commercial and editorial pictures as an employed retoucher.
I've approached visual work as one field rather than narrowing it down to different disciplines, resulting in a broad knowledge spanning from illustration, photography and retouch — to graphic design, webdesign and 3D. However, my absolute specialty is picture editing and advanced retouch.'


Click here to see more of Erik's stunning work.
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Franz Liszt Optical Illusion

12/23/2014

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The sound of the fountains of the famous garden of Villa d'Este inspired Liszt to write a piano piece called "Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este". The villa and the portrait of the composer can be seen in this optical illusion image made by István Orosz.
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Franz Liszt was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary.

Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age, and in the 1840s he was considered to be the greatest pianist of all time. Liszt was also a well-known and influential composer, piano teacher and conductor. He was a benefactor to other composers, including Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin.

As a composer, Liszt was one of the most prominent representatives of the "Neudeutsche Schule" ("New German School"). He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work in which he influenced his forward-looking contemporaries and anticipated some 20th-century ideas and trends. Some of his most notable contributions were the invention of the symphonic poem, developing the concept of thematic transformation as part of his experiments in musical form and making radical departures in harmony. He also played an important role in popularizing a wide array of music by transcribing it for piano.

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Merry Christmas

12/22/2014

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Fish Wobble Optical Illusion

12/21/2014

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When we change the background the fish stop wobbling.
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Santa Optical illusion

12/20/2014

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Tower of Pisa Optical Illusion

12/19/2014

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Flash animation. may not work on all devices.
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Cafe Wall Animated Optical Illusion

12/18/2014

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All lines are perfectly horizontal. There are no diagonal or slanting lines at all.
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In or Out Illusion

12/17/2014

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Great Skull Illusion Trick

12/16/2014

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Ben Heine's Hong Kong

12/15/2014

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What a terrific photo of Hong Kong by our good friend Ben Heine, . Because this is Optical Spy we have inverted it.
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Wibbley Wobbley Optical Illusion

12/14/2014

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These little torpedoes move across the screen wobbling as they go. Well actually they are not wobbling at all. You guessed it, it's an optical illusion. Once we take the background away they show their true selves. 
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Good and Bad Optical Illusion

12/13/2014

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This looks like a pretty mean guy, so lets cheer him up a bit. Either hover over him or click.
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Optical Spy Pocket Watch Optical Illusion

12/12/2014

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Freaky Underground Cinemagraphs

12/11/2014

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Parallel Project Gone Underground by François Sola is series of animated gifs built on the concept of Cinemagraph.
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Skyline Doors Illusion

12/10/2014

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Just been playing around with Photoshop to make this amusing optical. Can you see the skyline?
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Mona Lisa Optical Illusions

12/9/2014

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Image credit - Shigeo Fukuda
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Hover or click Mona to reveal the illusion.
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Magic 3D Shark

12/8/2014

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Image credit Know Your Meme
Yes, it's one of those magic eye illusions. You might have trouble seeing this one as it is moving. If you are having trouble, then try some of our other stationary autostereograms first. You have to go a bit crossed eyed. - Spyman
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The Illusion of Life

12/7/2014

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Giant Franz Kafka Mechanical Head

12/5/2014

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Mechanical gigantic head of Franz Kafka located near National street in Prague. Shopping centre Quadrio.
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Physics is Fun Optical Illusion

12/4/2014

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