Visual Illusions

Visual Illusions, also called Optical Illusions, are basically games the eyes play with our brains.

They take many forms & there are three main types : literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological ones that are the effects on the eyes & brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, tilt, color, movement) & cognitive illusions where the eye and brain make unconscious inferences.

Visual Illusions with a descriptive introduction, then details thirty of the most common examples of these illusions.