5 Cool Optical Illusions

Optical illusions: What you think you see may be far from the truth. It’s all a matter of perspective. Here are five cool optical illusions.
5 Cool Optical Illusions
From a different angle, these slopes look like they are moving in the opposite direction, so the balls seem like they roll up instead of down. See the video below. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Tara MacIsaac
11/5/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

Escher’s Waterfall

Edward Kopp, a student at Intermedia Design in Germany, recreated the illustration by M.C. Escher in a video that has had more than 2 million views on YouTube. The video is also posted on the school’s website, but no explanation is given as to how it works. 

 

Assumptions

 

A Matter of Perspective

 

Balls Seem to Defy Gravity

This is a 3-D model, not a computer graphic. 

 

Honda Commercial Full of Illusions