‘One Stop Photo Solution’

Depending on how you look at this image, you may see a portrait of a woman, or a silhouette of a man playing a saxophone.

How many legs does this elephant have?

Which horizontal line is longer?

Hold a ruler up to the screen and you will be surprised to discover that the lines are the same length. The illusion is achieved because the overall length of the drawing on the right is longer which fools the eye. Also, the circles in the figure on the left interrupt the line which distracts the eye.

Is the square in the middle a perfect square?

Although it is a perfect square, the sides may appear to bend inward.

How many right angles appear in the following image?

You may see a cube, but the image actually contains three diamonds without any right angles.

Are the points marked with A and B in front, or in back? There are no depth cues, so its impossible to tell. As a result, the image becomes unstable and may appear to flip from front to back as you continue to look at it.

Does this look like a spiral? It’s actually a bunch of concentric circles. Use your mouse to trace one circle and you will see that you come back to where you started instead of spiraling into the center.

These steps appear to continuously go either up or down in an infinite spiral.

When you move your eyes in a circular motion around this image, you will see what appears to be spokes moving around with your eyes.

This figure has conflicting depth cues, so it becomes unstable as you look at it. Depending on which part looks closer at the moment, you should be able to see a chair-like figure, or a floating block.

Do you see the native american wearing a headdress, or the inuit wearing a fluffy coat and entering an igloo?

Small grey dots should appear at the intersections of the squares, but if you look directly at the intersection, the grey dots will disappear.

Some people only see three angled lines, but if you look carefully you can actually see the letter E in the empty space.

Which line (A or B) continues to the other side? To many people it looks like it is A, but if you hold up a ruler you will see that it is B.

Are the holes on the inside or outside?

This impossible triangle seems to twist in three dimensions.

In spite of what your eyes are telling you, the smaller off-center circle is actually perfectly round.

This optical illusion was first created in 1861. Look at the two thick vertical lines. Do they look straight or curved to you? Hold a ruler up to the screen and you will see that they are indeed straight.

Look at the center of the image for about 30 seconds. Then quickly shift your gaze to somewhere with a white background. You should see an afterimage of the US flag with the correct colors! This happens because your eye reverses the colors in afterimages.

Look at lines A and B. Which one is bigger? They are actually the same size. This is because the size of objects is sometimes distorted based on the context in which they are seen.

Which arc comes from the largest circle? If you cover the left and right edges you will see that they are all the same size. This is because the size of objects is sometimes distorted based on the context in which they are seen.

Can you see both the duck and the bunny in this ambiguous drawing? The duck’s bill is the bunny’s ears. This was first used by a psychologist named Joseph Jastrow in the early 1900s.

Can you see both the young woman and the old woman in this classic optical illusion? If you need some help, the eye of the old woman is the ear of the young woman. The old woman’s mouth is the young woman’s necklace.

Do the straight horizontal gray lines look curvy to you? Hold up a piece of paper to prove that they are straight and parallel to each other.

Would you believe that the colors of squares A and B are the same? They are!

Use your fingers or a piece of paper with holes cut in it to block out the rest of the picture and you will see that they are.

Look at the red dot in the middle and move your head towards and away from the screen. See how the outer rings appear to rotate?

Look at the two inner circles. The one on the right appears bigger than the one on the left, but in actuality they are the same size. Hold up a dime to see for yourself.

Do you see two faces or a vase?

This object is called a blivet. How many prongs does it have?

In this illusion, black spots quickly appear and disappear at the intersections.

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