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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    The Moon illusion is an optical illusion which causes the Moon to appear larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky. It has been known...
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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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    The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion published by Edward H. Adelson, professor of vision science at MIT, in 1995. The image depicts a checkerboard...
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  • Phantogram may refer to: Phantogram (band) Phantogram (optical illusion) Phantagram South Korean video game maker This disambiguation page lists articles...
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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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    hill, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphill slope. Thus...
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  • Op art (redirect from Optical art)
    Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in...
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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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    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 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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    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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    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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  • free-standing anaglyphs, levitated images, and book anaglyphs, are a form of optical illusion. Phantograms use perspectival anamorphosis to produce a 2D image that...
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    Oregon Vortex (category Optical illusions)
    consists of a number of interesting effects, which are gravity hill optical illusions, but which the attraction's proprietors propose are the result of...
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    Optics (redirect from Optical)
    one for the angle of orientation of the astigmatism. Optical illusions (also called visual illusions) are characterized by visually perceived images that...
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    Ames room (redirect from Ames room illusion)
    An Ames room is a distorted room that creates an optical illusion. Likely influenced by the writings of Hermann Helmholtz, it was invented by American...
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    The Magnetic Hill is a Canadian gravity hill, a type of optical illusion created by rising and descending terrain. It is located at the northwestern edge...
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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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    Persistence of vision is the optical illusion that occurs when the visual perception of an object does not cease for some time after the rays of light...
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    The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. It is a simple wire-frame...
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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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    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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    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 café wall illusion, also known as the Münsterberg illusion, is a geometrical-optical illusion in which the parallel straight dividing lines between...
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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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