Geometric Illusions
Geometric illusions are visual phenomena that occur when the brain perceives a geometric shape or pattern in a way that differs from its actual physical characteristics. These illusions can be caused by a variety of factors, such as the presence of other shapes or patterns in the surrounding area, the use of contrasting colors, or the way that light is reflected or absorbed by the shapes.
Some common examples of geometric illusions include the Muller-Lyer illusion, the Ponzo illusion, and the Kanizsa triangle illusion.
These illusions can be used in art, design, and psychology research to better understand how the brain perceives and interprets visual information
- Aliasing
- Ames Room
- Ames Window
- Anamorphic Street Art
- Anamorphosis
- Anorthoscope
- Apparent Motion
- Autostereograms
- Bent Lines Illusion
- Bent Lines Illusion
- Beuchet Chair Illusion
- Black and White Straight Lines Illusion
- Blue Lines Illusion
- Bulge Illusion
- Café Wall Illusion
- Cathedral Floor Illusion
- Checkerboard Bulge
- Circle Illusion
- Circle or Spiral Illusion
- Circle Spiral Illusion
- Concave or Convex Illusion
- Concentric Circles Illusion
- Cool Blue Cafe Wall Illusion
- Cool Carpet Illusion
- Crater Illusion
- Crescent Moon Bridge Illusion
- Day and Night by Escher
- Delboeuf Illusion
- Devils Bridge Illusion
- Diamonds or Squares Illusion
- Ebbinghaus Illusion
- Ehrenstein Illusion
- Expanding Flower Illusion
- Face Mosaic Illusion
- Filled Space Illusion
- Floating Boat Illusion
- Floating Rock Illusion
- Flying Bird Moiré Pattern Illusion
- Forced Perspective
- Furrow Illusion
- Gestalt Dalmatian
- Ghost Ship Illusion
- Gravity Hill Illusion
- Green Checkerboard Illusion
- Green Spiral Illusion
- Helmholtz Illusion
- Hering Illusion
- Hidden Eight Illusion
- Highway to Heaven Illusion
- Hollow Faced Illusion
- Horsemaning
- House Painting Illusion
- Hyperboloid Optical Illusion
- Illusion Gate at Theresianum
- Illusion Knitting
- Illusion Knitting Bedspread
- Illusory Contours
- Illusory Motion
- Impossible Decision
- Infinity Edge Pool Illusions
- Infinity Mirror
- Invisible Building Illusion
- Jastrow Illusion
- Kanizsa Triangle
- Kelvin-Helmholtz Cloud Illusion
- Leaning Tower Illusion
- Lenticular Clouds on Fuji
- Metamorphosis III by Escher
- Missing Square Puzzle
- Moon Illusion
- Moon Illusion
- Mountain Shadow Illusion
- Moving Circles Illusion
- Moving Hearts Illusion
- Moving In and Out Illusion
- Moving Spiral Illusion
- Müller-Lyer Illusion
- Münsterberg Illusion
- No Curved Lines Illusion
- Numerosity Adaptation Effect
- Occlusion Illusion
- Oppel–Kundt Illusion
- Optical Art Illusions
- Optical Floor Illusions
- Orange Pulse Illusion
- Orbison Illusion
- Orthographic Projection Illusion
- Ouchi Illusion
- Parallel Lines Illusion
- Parallel Lines Illusion
- Parallel or Crooked Illusion
- Pareidolia
- Penrose Figures
- Pepper’s Ghost
- Perfect Squares Illusion
- Phantograms
- Phenakistiscope
- Pink Spiral Illusion
- Pink Tree Reflection Illusion
- Pinna’s Overlapping Illusion
- Platform 9 3-4 Illusion
- Poggendorff Illusion
- Ponzo Illusion
- Pulsing Illusion
- Purple and Green Illusory Motion
- Purple and Yellow Vortex Illusion
- Purple Spiral Illusion
- Pyramid of Giza Illusion
- Pyramid Squares Illusion
- Relativity by Escher
- Rhombille Tiling Illusions
- Rising Road Illusion
- Rotating Circles Illusion
- Same Length Illusion
- Sander Illusion
- Sarcone Müller-Lyer Illusion
- Shake Your Head Illusion
- Shepard Tables
- Sinking House Illusion
- Size-Weight Illusion
- Sorvagsvatn Lake Illusion
- Spiral Illusion
- St Peter’s Keyhole Illusion
- Straight Lines Illusion
- Straight or Slanted Illusion
- T Illusion
- Tessellation Illusions
- Thatcher Effect Illusion
- The Storseisundet Bridge Illusion
- Tilt Illusion
- Titchener Circles Illusion
- Transformation Illusion
- Tree Mirror Illusion
- Trompe-L’œil
- Tunnel Illusion
- Van Gogh Lego Illusion
- Van Gogh Tile Illusion
- Vanishing Puzzle
- Vector Ball Optical Illusions
- Vertical Horizontal Illusion
- Vertical Peripheral Drift
- Vista Paradox
- Waterfall by Escher
- Where’s My Car?
- Wundt Illusion
- Zebra Shadow Illusion
- Zoetrope
- Zöllner Illusion