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There are certain hard-wired aspects to the brain, meaning that even if you know how an illusion works, you still can't stop yourself from falling for it. Here's an excellent case in point - a floating cube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Rxe08

Thats awsesome.

Wonderful!

Make yourselves one of these - http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticali ... _illusion/ - very convincing stuff!

Uh-oh. I've gone cross-eyed.

*reaches for medication*

Aaaaah brain itch!!

Mandrake wrote:Make yourselves one of these - http://www.grand-illusions.com/opticali ... _illusion/ - very convincing stuff!

I already have! And quite brilliant it is, too. In fact, the little bu**er is trying to stare me out right now.

That floating cube is pretty good; even when you know how it's done, you still can't help but be fooled. My favourite optical illusion of all time is the checker shadow illusion.

I laove these, try looking at http://www.moillusions.com I got brain ache looking at http://www.moillusions.com/2011/02/escher%E2%80%99s-waterfall-brought-to-life.html, but then, it's not difficult to befuddle me nowadays.





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Interestingly, I actually couldn't go back to seeing the floating cube after the side view, however, I couldn't see the "real" object when watching the first part of the video for a second time. Odd.