We already knew that the Tupac Hologram wasn’t really a hologram but rather a modern regurgitation of the old mid-19th century trick known as “Pepper’s Ghost”. If you were confused on how that illusion worked, be confused no more! Here it is.
Most of the time, the classic MySpace-style self-portrait is trashy. Sometimes they’re accidentally hilarious. With this Photoshop trick, they can be mind numbingly, body trippingly awesome. That’s because it’s a mirrored self-portrait of you… without the camera in the picture.
When design shop Troika was called upon to create a series of unique chandeliers for the Royal Society of Arts‘ headquarters in London, instead of engineering some hanging crystal monstrosity, they created a subtle fixture that barely exists when the lights are off.
Gah! No, this isn’t an animated GIF, but so help me god it won’t stop moving. The full-size, square version does it even more. If you stare hard at one point it’ll kinda quit it, but really, you know it never stops. Never. [BuzzFeed]
As more and more small white dots are added to this black-and-white checkerboard in arrow patterns, your eyes are automatically drawn towards its centre, and you’ll start to start to think it looks warped. But it’s not. Excuse me while I go vomit.
I’ll admit it, it’s been nearly a month since I covered the Kissai Optical Illusion watch and I still can’t read the damn thing (it’s a schooner, I’m told). But Kissai’s latest user-submitted design is actually quite easy to interpret (hint: it isn’t Morse code).
These are four perfectly round, concentric circles. Wait no, they aren’t. Oh yes, they are. No, they are not. Are they? No. Yes. Would you please stop moving right now? Stupid circles made of stupid squares.
Want to add more wrinkles to that ol’ brain of yours? Stare at the coloured dots on the girl’s nose in the photo above for 30 seconds. Then look at a white surface (blank browser, mayhaps) and start blinking. You should see a non-negative image of the girl. WHAT. BRAIN. MELTING. WHAT. OHMYGOD.
Take a good look at this image. In fact, stare at it, dead centre. There’s no trick to it; just look straight ahead, relax, and watch as something you know is there vanishes into nothingness.
