Video: What sorcery is this? Kokichi Sugihara’s ‘Rectangles and Circles’ illusion is a mind-bending visual trip that turns squares into circles and circles into squares right in front of your face. Different shapes are placed at a mirror and what you see in front of you is totally different from what you see in the mirror. It’s like the mirror is actually a portal to another dimension where squares are circles and circles are squares.
I imagine it’s a stunning trick of perspective. It’s either that or black magic, right? More shapes are added in to confuse you, too. I mean is this:
And here’s the full video: