Illusions sur le net



Exploratorium San Francisco
The museum's exhibits and programs focuse on human perception: how we see, hear, smell, feel and otherwise experience the world around us.

Bird In A Cage
When your color vision tires, you can see colors that aren`t really there.
Bronx Cheer Bulb
Your CRT screen may appear to wiggle when you give it the raspberry, but the only thing wiggling is you.
Cafe Wall Illusion
Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion. This exhibit requires the Shockwave plug-in for Netscape.
Common Cents
How good is your memory? Test it with this new exhibit!
Fading Dot
If you stare at this dot, for few moments it disappears.
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
Intonation is an important part of language. Listen to a familiar story told with familiar yet unexpected words.
Learning Studio On-Line Exhibits
An Exploratorium of Color and Vision.
Mona
Leonardo`s famous model is used in an interesting perceptual experiment.
Mutant Fruit Flies
One fruit fly should look pretty much like any other. But the flies here all look different from normal fruit flies. That`s because mutations-changes in each fly`s genetic code-have altered their colors and shapes.
Postcard Exhibits
Four exhibits small enough to fit on postcards. Optical Illusions and other surprises.
Shimmer
Your eye movements make this design seem to shimmer.
Trapezoidal Window
Sometimes things are not as they appear. Expectations of the shape of window frames leads to an interesting illusion.
Vocal Vowels
Hollow plastic models of the human vocal tract turn the squawk of a duck call into vowel sounds.


IllusionWorks page
Interactive optical illusions. The largest collection of illusions on the Internet, many appearing for the first time. Up-to-date scientific explanations, illusionary artwork, puzzles, and interactive demonstrations.

Arts & Illusions

Hall of illusions



Electronic Transparencies (Gleitmann Classroom assistant)

Fig 6.13 Form equivalence

Fig 6.14 Pop-out in visual search

Fig 6.16 Figure and ground

Fig 6.17 Reversible figure-ground pattern

Fig 6.19 Fine detail is more readily seen in the figure than the ground

Fig 6.20 The effect of orientation and shape on perceptual grouping

Fig 6.21 Good continuation

Fig 6.22 Good continuation pitted against prior experience

Fig 6.24 Closure

Fig 6.25 Subjective contours

Fig 6.30 Bidirectional activation

Fig 6.31 Some proposed geometric primitives



Dave Landrigad's Illusions Gallery
[University of Massachussetts Lowell]. A collection of visual illusions with demonstrations and tutorials.

Color Illusions

Determining Visual Angle

Experience Your Blind Spot

Figure of a Woman

Hering Illusion

Hermann Grid

Hermann-Hering Illusion

Illusory Depth - Blur and Color

Illusory Depth - Completion

Illusory Depth - Perspective and Shading

Impossible Figures

Landrigan Home Page

Mach Bands

Necker Cube

Negative Afterimages

Objects by Common Fate

Organization in Perception

Poggendorf Illusion

Staircase Illusion

Subjective Contours

Vase/Faces Illusion



La maison de l'illusion [FR]
Vous qui entrez ici, laissez derrière vous tout bon sens. [Collection of illusions, and ambiguous and impossible figures.]

La beauté est dans la laideur

La roue de l`illusionŠ

Le canard au lapin

Le miroir de la mortŠ

Šle retour

Šversion colorisée

Le monde d`Escher

parallèles1

parallèles2

Un carré fantomatique

Un triangle pas très orthodoxe

Un trident pas très catholique

Un vase dans la tète



FANTASTIC Optical Illusions -- [CA] Ads Online
Some more illusion and tricks.

The Bird

Impossible Crate

Impossible Triangle

Möller-Lyer Illusion

Necker Cube

Queen Elizabeth II

Schröder Stairs

Spirit Catcher

Young Girl - Old Woman

Zöllner Illusion



Common Optical Illusions

Are the two lines the same length?

Is the top or the bottom of the box closest to you?

Does this box really have curved edges?

Which of the two inner circles is the same size? Measure them and see for yourself.

Which of the two inner circles is the same size? Measure them and see for yourself.

Can you see the grey spots where the dark lines intersect?

Are the long lines parallel?

Can you see the grey spots where the white lines intersect?

Which of the two lines between the tracks is longer?

Is there really a triange drawn in this picture?


The Illusions @ uni-paderborn [DE]

afterimage

brightness

brightness/color illusions

color

contrast

fortification

Geometric & Brightness/Color illusions

geometric illusions

irradiation

machband I

machband II

movement

ponzo-arrow

zoellner



Perception section of Lyman Cognitive Psychology lecture [NorthWestern]
Lecture outline w/ illustrations.

Context Effects & Top-Down Processing

Depth Cues

Figure/Ground Segregation

Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Grouping



Fun Things @ The Joy of Visual Perception

Apparent motion (Phi Phenomenon)

Blind Spot Demonstration

Boynton Illusion

Brightness Illusion

Color and Brightness Influence Distance Perception

Color Assimilation phenomenon

Fun Things

Hering and Pogendorf illusions

Hermann Grid Illusion

Horizontal-Vertical Illusion

Image Disappears Before Your Eyes

In which avocado half is the pit?

Kanizsa Illusion

Mach Bands

More equal spots that appear unequal.

Muller-Lyer Illusion

Necker cube

Ouchi apparent motion illusion

Perspective Illusion

Pixelized Famous Person

Radiating Lines

Reversible Image

Spatial Frequency Adaptation

Spots that are physically equal don`t always appear so.



Internet Psychology Laboratory

Ambiguous Figures [demo] (Adaptation and Constancy)

Horizontal/Vertical

McGurk [demo] (Auditory Mismatch)

Müller-Lyer

Musical Scale [demo] (Music Perception)

Pitch Scaling (Magnitude Estimation)

Poggendorff

Ponzo

Selective Adaptation [demo] (Adaptation and Constancy)

Signal Detection (Sensitivity)



Out of sight, out of mind? @ London Science Museum

Blind spot

Complementary colours

How long ? (Müller-Lyer)

Persistence of vision

Stroop effect



The Exploratory [UK]
Explore the world of science, hands-on, in one of the most exciting educational centres in the UK!

The Cafe Wall distortion illusion

Colour after images



Buchenroth Publishing Company presents Optical Illusion Clipart

The Boys from Syracuse

Dr. Renshaw`s Cow

Duck and rabbit

Impossible figure

The Isle of Dogs

Jesus Christ

L`egs-Istential Quandary

My wife and my mother-in-law.

Reversible figure



Mark's Newbold's Java Stuff
For Java capable browsers. The Counter Rotating Spiral Illusion, The Animated Necker Cube, Hypercube (and other) stereograms.

Animated Necker Cube

Counter-Rotating Spirals Illusion



Visual Research [Rutgers]

Biological Motion demo [Rutgers]
An applet demonstrating the interpretation of reduced stimuli.
The Brick Illusion

Masking Block

Masking Lines



Others

Cartoonish illusions

Ambiguous Figures @ Brain & Behavior page [Bryn Mawr]

Apparent Motion [Java Applet]

Blindsight demo [Bryn Mawr]
Similar to xx Signal Detection presentation, but with a different twist on data collection.
Breathing Square [CalTech] (Java Applet)

Cafe Wall Optical Illusion

Color Matters
J.L. Morton`s fine page on Color.
Common Optical Illusions

Grand Illusions page
Welcome to Grand Illusions, the site for the enquiring mind. With optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic.
Illusions with Shadows
Interesting psychophysical experiments with shadows.
Interactive Illustrations of Color Perception
Java script dependent color demonstrations with deep Color Theory text.
Interdisciplinary Illusions
Includes links to teacher and student resources.
Moiré pattern [Java applet]

Motion demos @ Stuart Anstis Slides Pages

Musical Illusions and Paradoxes
Auditory illusions by U.C.S.D. professor Diana Deutche. You can order her musical illusion CD from this site.
An Optical Illusion: Square @ grand-illusion

Optical Illusions @ indiana

Photorealistic Optical Illusion
Photorealism and multimedia.
Psychological concepts, with exhaustive collection of illusions [Zurich]
An illusion is not a simple error in perception
Slides for perception lecture [UCSD]
Acuity tests and color illusions.
Tony`s Applet Demo Site


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