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    In visual perception, an optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept...
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    to Optical illusion. Optical Illusion Examples by Great Optical Illusions Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena by Michael Bach Optical Illusions Database...
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  • generally shared by most people. Illusions may occur with any of the human senses, but visual illusions (optical illusions) are the best-known and understood...
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  • Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2015. "Optical illusion: Dress color debate goes global". BBC News. BBC. Archived from the...
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    The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion published by Edward H. Adelson, professor of vision science at MIT, in 1995. It showcases the relative...
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    in 1973, gradually expanding to become an award-winning complex of optical illusions and puzzling rooms and the world's first 3-D maze. Puzzling World...
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  • Op art (redirect from Optical art)
    short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses distorted or manipulated geometrical patterns, often to create optical illusions. It began in...
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    The Müller-Lyer illusion is an optical illusion consisting of three stylized arrows. When viewers are asked to place a mark on the figure at the midpoint...
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    the scintillating grid illusion. The Hermann grid illusion is an optical illusion reported by Ludimar Hermann in 1870. The illusion is characterized by "ghostlike"...
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    The Great Illusion is a book by Norman Angell, first published in the United Kingdom in 1909 under the title Europe's Optical Illusion and republished...
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  • The illusion of Kate Moss is an art piece first shown at the conclusion of the Alexander McQueen runway show The Widows of Culloden (Autumn/Winter 2006)...
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    The Hollow-Face illusion (also known as Hollow-Mask illusion) is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal...
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    a 400-year-old Dattatreya temple. Kalo Dungar magnetic hill is an optical illusion where a vehicle seems to defy the gravity and roll up the slope. The...
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    The café wall illusion (also known as the Münsterberg illusion or the kindergarten illusion) is a geometrical-optical illusion in which the parallel straight...
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    The term illusory motion, or motion illusion or apparent motion, refers to any optical illusion in which a static image appears to be moving due to the...
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    The Jastrow illusion is an optical illusion attributed to the Polish-American psychologist Joseph Jastrow. This optical illusion is known under different...
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    spiral illusion is an optical illusion that was first described by the British psychologist Sir James Fraser (1863–1936) in 1908. The illusion is also...
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    The Cornsweet illusion, also known as the Craik–O'Brien–Cornsweet illusion or the Craik–Cornsweet illusion, is an optical illusion that was described in...
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    The Moon illusion is the optical illusion of the Moon appearing larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky. It has been known since ancient...
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    French: [tʁɔ̃p lœj] ) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface...
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    The Poggendorff illusion is a geometrical-optical illusion that involves the misperception of the position of one segment of a transverse line that has...
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    investigations proved that the appearance of flying rods on video was an optical illusion created by the slower recording speed of the camera. After attending...
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  • Auditory illusions are illusions of real sound or outside stimulus. These false perceptions are the equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears...
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  • Dewanpatpar magnetic hill, 40 km north of Pandariya, which has an optical illusion of a gravity hill where vehicle seems to defy the gravity and roll...
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  • Geometrical–optical are visual illusions, also optical illusions, in which the geometrical properties of what is seen differ from those of the corresponding...
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    Impossible object (category Optical illusions)
    known as an impossible figure or an undecidable figure) is a type of optical illusion that consists of a two-dimensional figure which is instantly and naturally...
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    Post Pavilion, which features a leaf covered optical illusion. He was asked by Jeff Koons to provide illusions for the interior packaging of Lady Gaga's...
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    optical illusions include several picture books for children such as Ambiguous Illusions (2005), Action Optical Illusions (2005) and Stereo Optical Illusions...
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    Atmospheric optics is "the study of the optical characteristics of the atmosphere or products of atmospheric processes .... [including] temporal and spatial...
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    The Ebbinghaus illusion or Titchener circles is an optical illusion of relative size perception. Named for its discoverer, the German psychologist Hermann...
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