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  2. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    These are images that can form two separate pictures. For example, the image shown forms a rabbit and a duck. Ambigram: A calligraphic design that has multiple or symmetric interpretations. Ames room illusion An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create a visual illusion. Ames trapezoid window illusion

  3. Shepard elephant - Wikipedia

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    Stanford psychologist Roger Shepard (March 2019), who first published this paradox in 1990. Shepard first published this optical paradox in his 1990 book Mind Sights (page 79) giving it the name "L'egs-istential Quandary". [2] It is the first entry in his chapter on "Figure-ground impossibilities".

  4. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

  5. Geometrical-optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    For example, these can be in brightness or color, called intensive properties of targets, e.g. Mach bands. Or they can be in their location, size, orientation or depth, called extensive . When an illusion involves properties that fall within the purview of geometry it is geometrical–optical , a term given to it in the first scientific paper ...

  6. Chessboard paradox - Wikipedia

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    Chessboard paradox. The chessboard paradox [1] [2] or paradox of Loyd and Schlömilch [3] is a falsidical paradox based on an optical illusion. A chessboard or a square with a side length of 8 units is cut into four pieces. Those four pieces are used to form a rectangle with side lengths of 13 and 5 units.

  7. Schroeder stairs - Wikipedia

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    Schroeder stairs can be perceived in two ways, depending on whether the viewer considers A or B to be the closer wall. Schroeder stairs (Schröder's stairs) is an optical illusion which is a two-dimensional drawing which may be perceived either as a drawing of a staircase leading from left to right downwards or the same staircase only turned upside down, a classical example of perspective ...

  8. Ehrenstein illusion - Wikipedia

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    Ehrenstein also found when he reduced the size of the overall figure, it enhanced the paradox and made the contour appear thicker. The shapes in the image remain constant despite small changes in the overall characteristics of the configuration. The monochrome colours of the images further enhances the illusion of the square becoming curved. [7]

  9. Phantogram (optical illusion) - Wikipedia

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    Phantograms, also known as Phantaglyphs, Op-Ups, free-standing anaglyphs, levitated images, and book anaglyphs, are a form of optical illusion.Phantograms use perspectival anamorphosis to produce a 2D image that is distorted in a particular way so as to appear, to a viewer at a particular vantage point, three-dimensional, standing above or recessed into a flat surface.