Howard Lee is a popular artist known for his hyperrealistic depictions of everyday objects. Now he is creating simpler illusions using just pencil and paper. Although simple, there is a mystery to how ...

Today, we have designed a black-and-white optical illusion, in which your observation and visual perception will be tested ...

We love a nice optical illusion (if you hadn't noticed), and happily the internet is full of people creating little gems to trick our eyes. Anyone wanting to create their own won't want to miss this ...

A new book collects the 3D street art of Kurt Wenner, a former NASA employee, who uses his mathematical skill to create three-dimensional illusions on pavements across the world. When viewed from the ...

Whether it’s green strawberries that look red, painted “three-dimensional” road bumps or that argument-provoking dress, we are suckers for a good optical illusion. And 29-year-old Sage Hansen, aka ...

I love fun illusions, and I happened upon one that’s pretty interesting to see: an artist draws a glass of water that is startlingly 3-D: Oddly, the illusion is actually more convincing to watch at ...

That’s what artist Stefan Pabst did with the cute little spider he created from scratch using only a graph paper tablet and a pen—if by “little” you mean “terrifyingly large” and by “cute” you mean ...

On Indiana Avenue, near Bally’s Casino in Atlantic City, a giant centipede crawled out of a yawning black hole in the pavement where a sewer cover had been dislodged. But instead of running away, a ...

A stereogram optical illusion is a fascinating visual puzzle that hides a 3D image within a 2D pattern. At first glance, it appears to be a random collection of repeating designs or colourful dots.

Anamorphic drawings are two-dimensional drawings that, when viewed from a single point of view, seem to leap off the page. Graphic artist Alessandro Diddi has mastered them. Diddi is an Italian ...