ILLUSIONS

Perpetually ascending staircase.

How can the man go up all the time and come back to the same place over and over?

 

Perpetually Ascending

 

 

 

The red squares are the same color in the upper part
and in the lower part of the "X"

Green Checkerboard

 

 

 

The diagonal lines are parallel.

 Parallel Diagonal Lines

 

There are no gray spots at the corners of the squares.

Black square grid

 

The rows of black and white squares are all parallel.

 

black and white squares



Impossible Triangle.

 

Impossible Triangle


Parallel lines at sunrise.

 

Parallel lines


The center circles are both the same size.

 

Center circles are equal


The Vertical lines are both the same length.

 

Verical lines are equal


 


Three-prong fork.

 

Fork


Ambiguous cubes

 

Ambiguous Cube    Ambiguous Cube animation


There are only white circles at the intersections

 

White Circles


All the bumps are identical.
The one in the lower right corner is upside-down,
The image to the right is rotating.

 

bumps         Rotating bump


Wavy Squares? No!
The background of concentric circles makes the squares appear distorted.

 

Squares on Concentric Circles


Rotating Wheels
The circles appear to rotate when you move your head closer and further away from the screen while looking at the dot in the center.

 

Rotating Wheels


 


Warped Square?
There are no curved lines in this figure.

 

Warped Square