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unusual facts about optical illusion



Akiyoshi Kitaoka

In 2008, his designs were the inspiration for the critically acclaimed avant-garde band Animal Collective's album Merriweather Post Pavilion, which featured a leaf covered optical illusion.

Fraser spiral illusion

The Fraser spiral illusion is an optical illusion that was first described by the British psychologist Sir James Fraser (1863 – 1936) in 1908.


see also

Devil's Pitchfork

The Blivet, also known as the Devil's tuning fork, an impossible object and optical illusion

McCollough

McCollough effect, optical illusion, named after Celeste McCollough

Mystery road

Gravity hill, the geographical phenomenon, where an optical illusion can make a downward sloping hill appear to slope upward

Simon von Stampfer

In 1832 Stampfer became aware through the Journal of Physics and Mathematics of experiments by the British physicist, Michael Faraday, on the optical illusion caused by rapidly rotating gears, in which the human eye could not follow the movement of the gear.

The Great Illusion

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 in 1910 and subsequently in various enlarged and revised editions under the title The Great Illusion.