May 14, 2011Color Adapting

Green Tanuki Optical Illusion

What I love most about professor Kitaoka’s homegrown illusions, is their simplicity. Just look at the color-adapting sample he came up with all the way…

March 17, 2011Animations

Running Snakes Promo

Tomato Kosir and Wolfgang Gosch used the famous optical illusion by Akiyoshi Kitaoka , and combined it with Galileo Galilei’s saying “Eppur si muove” (and…

October 18, 2010Animations

Duracell Powered Dancing Snakes

Duracell has always been creative when it comes to marketing their own products. Just check out the already featured examples filled under the belonging #Duracell…

August 6, 2010August 24, 2010Color Adapting

Simple Wave-line Illusion

I’ve read couple of comments you left on our yesterday’s post, and it appears that if the left eye is enlarged in photoshop, some bluish…

August 4, 2010August 24, 2010Color Adapting

Eye Shadow Optical Illusion

This Japanese manga girl by professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka looks like she has one cyan eye and one gray eye. In fact, both eyes are exactly…

June 30, 2010Animations

Yup, These Are Static As Well!

Professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka from Japan, occasionally creates such awesome optical illusions, it’s hard to believe what he tells us is true. One such example were…

April 29, 2010Art Installation

Hypnose Sofa Illusory Furniture

Rafael Simões Miranda does what he calls “Italian design through Brazilian eyes“. Chances are slim that the optical illusion pattern he used to create this…

January 24, 2010January 24, 2010Animations

Advanced Rollers Optical Illusion

In the beginning we had rollers and snakes, optical illusions born accidentally, probably as a by-product to some sort of color experiments. Most of them…

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