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It's Just An Illusion

Cool Waste Of Time - It's Just An Illusion

by , 2:20 PM EDT, August 10th, 2005

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
-Albert Einstein

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
-Douglas Adams

Optical illusions are cool; just ask any Escher fan. What would be even cooler is if there was a Web site chock full of optical illusions. Well, feast your peepers on this installment of A Cool Waste of Time.

The eyes have it.

Seeing is believing.

Tell me, and I may believe you: Show me, and I'll believe my eyes.

For centuries, magicians have used all sorts of tricks to fool our eyes, making us believe that they can levitate elephants, regurgitate an endless stream of colorful handkerchiefs, and make anything from coins to cars disappear.

Are those circles really rotating? Are those dots actually disappearing? Tilt your head just right and prepare to be amazed. Michael Bach's site contains 55 of the best optical illusions we've ever seen, each with an explanation as to how and why they work.

Take a look. Good stuff!

Do you have a Cool Waste of Time you found on the Internet? Tell Vern Seward all about it, and he's pass it around...

55 Optical Illusions

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Close Name:Tiger Posts: 1018 Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:00 pm Subject: Hey Vern!

Love the illusions.

Just wait till "video iPods" come out and you can download them onto them!


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Close Name:bweels -   TMO Forum Mod Posts: 4865 Joined: 24 Jan 2002
Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:19 pm Subject: Dang!

Great stuff, Vern, but now I've wasted time intead of worked and beyond that, I'm late for dinner and my wife is pissed! (that I didn't at least call - what was I supposed to do, tell her I'm late because I'm looking at illusions on my computer at work?)


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