A Lego car runs through Platform 9 and 3/4 from the train station King’s Cross in London as he does Harry Potter And epic wizards to go to Hogwarts. two Eye-matching cube towers3D printed, which is actually very different from each other. and the curious Image of a woman moving her face The viewer looks at it from different angles. They are three Optical illusions Amazing and impressive you leave with Mouth open For anyone, plus the best of 2023.
This week the eighteenth edition of Annual competition for the best illusion for the year 2023and some of the prizes he organized Neuroscientists the Neural Connection Society Supported by New York Museum of Illusions. the goal? “Encourage public awareness on Perceptual and cognitive researchsays the organization. Go if they get it.
The three best ones have been publicly selected on the web by fans of optical illusions, but “a selection of… Ten finalistswhich had previously been selected by an international panel of impartial experts on illusions,” according to the organisation.
We show you winning optical illusion videos with descriptions and explanations of the authors, so you can watch them on loop and delight yourself as much as you want.
Winner: “Platform 9 34s” by Matt Pritchard
The illusion consists of a LEGO car driving through a solid wall. There is actually a car-sized hole in the middle of the wall for the game to pass through.
The empty space of bricks is replaced by an anamorphic illusion on the floor behind the wall. When viewed from a specific perspective, the vertical and horizontal bricks line up and appear to form one solid wall.
The pattern hides the edges and makes any cutout very hard to spot.
2nd Place: Tower of Cubes by John Salmon
The viewer shows a stack or tower created with three complete 3D printed cubes on the left, next to a tower on the right. Once assembled, a straight wooden bar is inserted through the tower on the left, from top to bottom.
The rod is also inserted through the tower of cubes on the right, but now it appears to curve around the structure in an amazing, impossible way.
The illusion is solved by dismantling the tower on the right, to reveal distorted 3D-printed cubes that are far from perfect.
Third Place: “Cornelia” by Wendy Van Boxtel
“After discovering hollow mask illusions, I became obsessed with creating an inside-out sculpture where the face and hair gradually emerge from the painting, in order to create a custom illusion that would catch people’s attention,” van Boxtel explains.
“I experimented with lots of textures, colors, and depth, and after several tries, I found a method that worked. You would think it would fool everyone’s eyes, but not exactly. People with schizophrenia report a disconnect between what the eyes see and what the brain thinks, and they are unable to perceive an illusion.” .
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