Put some fluorescent dye in water, let water droplets go and synchronize a stroboscopic light. You can get anyhting you want and it looks like magic. YouTube link
Category: Optical illusion
Black and white or Color (video illusion)
One very cool optical illusion of a fade to black… and white. YouTube link And there’s another one very similar but with a different image: a waterfall.

MC Escher in video
Graphic artist and painter MC Escher produced a few very interesting paintings and engravings. But today, I give you the opportunity to see it differently. Bring on the video! Source: Magic Design.

Droste effect
In the year 1956, “the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher made an unusual lithograph with the title ‘Print Gallery’. It shows a young man viewing a print in an exhibition gallery. Amongst the buildings depicted on the print, he sees paradoxically the very same gallery that he is standing in.” The term was coined by…


Slanted illusion
Straight lines are actually really parallels. It’s your brain trying to convince you they’re not.

Great coins for Great Britain
“You’ve got to love those coins!” Do you believe that I could tell you so? Surely not. Even better, you can be surprised to learn that I found that in a web site about design and arts (Baekdal.com). And it is defintely a great design for something as old as coins. The new UK coins…

Lego optical illusion
It took all the art of bbzippo, some Lego bricks and some Photoshop editing, too.
Disappearing car doors: Real or fake?
If you go to the web site setup by Jatec-LLC, disappearing-car-door.com, you will see a revolutionary kind of sliding door for your car. But is it real or fake?