Illusion of Height Contradiction
Finalist of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2012
Sachiko Tsuruno
Kinki University, Japan
Impossible obje...
8,864 views
The Disappearing Hand Trick
Winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2012
Roger Newport, Helen Gilpin and Catherine Preston
Universi...
103,819 views
Exorcist Illusion -- Twisting Necks
Finalist of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2012
Thomas Papathomas, Tom Grace Sr., Marcel de Heer and Rob...
7,856 views
Illusions from rotating rings
2011 Top 10 finalists in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest
Stuart Anstis & Patrick Cavanagh
UC San Diego, USA, Université Paris Descartes, Fran...
77,248 views
The more-or-less morphing face illusion
2011 Top 10 finalists in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest
Rob van Lier & Arno Koning
Donders Institute, Netherlands
The illusion comprises a m...
174,213 views
illusorygloss.mov
Finalist of the 2010 Best Illusion of the Year Contest
by Maarten Wijntjes & Sylvia Pont
The movie shows a Brownian surface (which has a fractal st...
101,471 views
Stretching out in the tub
Top 10 Finalists of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010
Lydia Maniatis
American University, USA
This illusion is based on a billboa...
236,935 views
Impossible motion: magnet-like slopes
Winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010
http://illusioncontest.neur...
Koukichi Sugihara
Meiji Institute for Advanc...
5,212,569 views
About Illusion Of The Year
The contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world's premier visual illusion research community. Visual illusions are those perceptual experiences that do not match the physical reality. Our perception of the outside world is generated indirectly by brain mechanisms, and so all visual perception is illusory to some extent. The study of visual illusions is therefore of critical importance to the understanding of the basic mechanisms of sensory perception, as well as to cure many diseases of the visual system. The visual illusion community includes visual scientists, ophthalmologists, neurologists, and visual artists that use a variety of methods to help discover the neural underpinnings of visual illusory perception.
The contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world's premier visual illusion research community. Visual illusions are those perceptual experiences that do not match the physical reality. Our perception of the outside world i...