The results of a contest to name the Best Illusions of the Year have been announced, with some rather impressive contributions from visual scientists, ophthalmologists, neurologists, and artists ...

An optical illusion is a fascinating visual trick that deceives the brain into seeing something different from reality. These illusions occur when the information our eyes send to the brain is ...

Every year, various members of the illusion community—which is made up of scientists, neurologists, researchers, and even artists—get together to decide which of their recently created mind-melters ...

The latest optical illusion driving the internet insane actually won an award for it's mind-bending nature. Kokichi Sugihara, a Japanese engineering professor, took second place at the 2016 Best ...

A new video from [Make Anything] shows off a nice combo that has a real visual impact: ambiguous shapes that look different depending on what angle they are viewed at, combined with an unusual ...