This is a video of ‘Stairway To Heaven’, a collaboration between South African artist Strijdom van der Merwe and Taiwanese artist Chou Sheng-hsien. From just the right angle, it looks like a three dimensional stairway reaching ever skyward. From almost every other angle, it looks like a flat ladder rising
To test whether cats can perceive optical illusions, this is a video of Scottish Shorthair cat Horisco interacting with a rug that appears to be a hole. So, can cats perceive optical illusions? Based on this video, not in the slightest. Granted this wasn’t the most scientific of all experiments,
This is a curved digital billboard above Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station that will display a giant cat optical illusion through the day, because that’s exactly what the world needs more of. I swear, Japan is always ahead of the curve. Some more info: According to TimeOut, “the cat will have its
These are several optical illusions created by professor of engineering education and leadership at the University Of Texas, El Paso, David Novick. In each of the illusions all the balls are the same color, but appear not to be because your brain is trash and easily tricked. Now you see
The exact couch you don’t want to see when you have the spins, this is the Adaptation Sofa designed by Fabio Novembre for purveyor of luxury furniture Cappellini. It looks like it’s leaning but the actual seat cushions are flat across. Obviously, I call the far right seat with maximum
This an incredibly long video of Youtuber Veritasium discussing and demonstrating the Ames rotating window illusion and how it illustrates how we don’t directly perceive external reality. What does that mean? No clue, but I do have a headache now so I guess I have this video to thank for
This is a video of the winner of the ‘Best Illusion Of The Year’, as created by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Tokyo. The 3D Schröder Staircase “looks exactly the same right-side-up and upside-down, its left end looking taller than its right.” It was pretty fun to watch,