Months may have already passed since Steve Jobs
passed away, but as long as Apple survives thanks to the man’s
brilliant innovations, his memory lives on. Just in case there were any
doubts about Mr. Jobs’ legacy though, fans have been working on their own ways to immortalize the late CEO. From action figures to a Facebook-organized holiday, people across the globe have been creating a variety of tributes.
While many of these are interesting, few are suitable for MoIllusions, but this great graffiti project spotted on Bond Street in New York City by Twitpic user Kennycity certainly is.
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While many of these are interesting, few are suitable for MoIllusions, but this great graffiti project spotted on Bond Street in New York City by Twitpic user Kennycity certainly is.
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Every once in a while the moment arrives for a complete visual redesign of this website! A total makeover, if you prefer. Reasons are many; trends change, web-design advances…
but most importantly -I get tired working in the same surrounding and
need something to boost myself in order to continue updating this blog
with same enthusiasm!Up-till now, visual design of Mighty Optical Illusions was done by myself. Obviously, it didn’t take very long before I’ve reached my limits. For a control-freak and detail-obsessed person I am, admitting this wasn’t the easy part. Yet it helped tremendously in freeing myself and in finding the right person to do it. It was about time to outsource design to a professional!
Before I introduce the proposed idea, and go live with our new identity, there are still some minor details to be polished. Still, I’d REALLY appreciate to hear your thoughts and suggestions! So here it goes – below you may find the early mockup of our new appearance. What do you make of it? Be sure to open the template in full size before you make up your mind. I still haven’t decided should we keep the grayish header bar (reserved for advertisement), as well as the current logo suggestion? How about the general feel? What would you add/change? Looking forward to hear your opinion! …Oh, almost forgot to mention the illusion above – it appears there is one continuous black and white spiral, while in fact there are many concentric circles inside!
Click on the template above to open it in full size!
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Vurdlak on January 1, 2012, with 28 Comments
In the past we have featured multiple color blindness tests,
where individuals suffering from this particular “disorder” could’ve
felt put on a side. Even though, only 7% of male population is color blind, I thought it would be interesting to explore reverse color tests, where rest of us would have difficulty solving them. I have found exactly what I was hoping for at G. Sarcone’s website!
In fact, most color blind people can easily read what is written in the
picture above. That means, if you fail the test, you probably have the
full range of color sensitivity that is attributed to color-sighted
people. Anyway, this test is not to be considered by itself sufficient
to determinate defective color vision. Now let’s see a mockup of what
they were able to read, while rest of us couldn’t:
Color vision
deficient people have a tendency to better night vision and, in some
situations, they can perceive variations in luminosity that
color-sighted people could not. It might also be worth mentioning how
U.S. Army discovered that color blind people could spot “camouflage” colors that fooled those with normal color vision!Continue Reading …
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Vurdlak on December 31, 2011, with 17 Comments
People, words and objects hidden inside tree branches are undoubtedly one of the most popularly exploited illusion-motives
on this site (up to date). Still, good illusions are always welcome. It
doesn’t matter if they closely resemble some we’ve already seen before!For example, look what Deviant artist megaossa has managed to come up with! Most interesting part is how I discovered his illusion gallery accidentally, thanks to our Facebook channel.
When I recently started promoting our FB page, I have secretly hoped for a critical mass, where at some point, good illusions and great talent would spontaneously find their way and reach us! Could it be that we have reached that point?
But let us return back on the topic. If I asked you, would you be able to spot all of the illusions in megaossa’s portfolio? For example, are you able to see the baby inside the below photo? Do you find this real-life version or the original Baby Tree Illusion better?
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Vurdlak on December 27, 2011, with 36 Comments
The tracheal tube illusion animation your about to see has been circulating the net lately. It is a simple relative sizes optical illusion, which goes in tandem with the following question:Which tracheal tube is longer?When I first saw it, two questions immediately captured my attention: A) What is “tracheal tube”? and B) Will the illusion work for others, where I wasn’t even sure it worked for me. Still, based on its popularity on the various social networks (=read: Facebook), I suppose it is OK.
So, not being lazy, I have searched the web and learned that tracheal tube is a catheter (?!) that can be inserted into the patient’s trachea in order to establish and maintain clear airway…
Never would’ve guessed the day will come when we would have catheter illusions appearing on this site! It would probably be the last thing I could come up with, if someone asked me in prior to give my wildest prediction regarding future illusion submissions! In this illusion the lower tube should appear longer when positioned vertically… What do you think of it?
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Vurdlak on December 25, 2011, with 16 Comments
Just in time for Christmas, I’ve dug up this marvelous painting by world-famous Octavio Ocampo. What at first seems as randomly scattered flock of doves, when observed closer makes a portrait of a beautiful female face.What you probably knew from before – Dove (domesticated Rock Pigeon, usually white in color) is a traditional Christian symbol of love and peace. According to the biblical story, after the flood, a dove was released by Noah in order to seek for land. When it returned back to Ark carrying an olive leaf in its beak, it then became clear to Noah that somewhere out there, flood has withdrawn and land has emerged!
So, in spirit of Christmas, no matter which faith you belong to (and even if you don’t care much about religion), I wish you all a peaceful and merry Christmas! Stay well my friends, and be sure to remember -one person DOES make a difference. Only those “foolish” enough to think they can change the world, end up changing it!
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Vurdlak on December 24, 2011, with 30 Comments
After seeing this grayish dartboard below, and being a regular fan of Might Optical Illusions blog, the question arises almost spontaneously – Do the light and dark regions, as indicated by the arrows, appear to be different? Which region is actually darker? Believe it or not, they are identical!
Errrm…Well, at least they should be! Please bear in mind that the
picture you see below was first scanned and then uploaded by the person
who sent it to me, so they might not actually be the same. Still, in the
end it might help the illusion to work even better! As it might turn out that the darker region is the one that appears lighter at the first glance! You be the judge…
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Vurdlak on December 22, 2011, with 61 Comments
This optical illusion picture was taken from the Little Giant Book of Optical Illusions by Keith Kay, where it was originally presented as a puzzling pattern containing hidden black and white cows. As easy it was for me to spot the one hidden cow in it (what’s with all them cow illusions?!), I was never able to see any other cows present. What do you make of it? BTW, this kind of Rorschach Test optical illusions proved quite popular in our archives, so make sure you check our spot the object category for more -they should be buried somewhere in there…
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