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Size and shape
Müller-Lyer illusion
Ebbinghaus illusion
Delboeuf illusion
Ponzo illusion
Vertical-horizontal illusion
Jastrow illusion
Zöllner illusion
Hering illusion
Poggendorff illusion
Café wall illusion
Fraser spiral illusion
Kanizsa triangle
Orbison illusion
Wundt illusion
Sander illusion
Oppel-Kundt illusion
Light and color
Simultaneous contrast
White’s illusion
Hermann grid
Scintillating grid
Mach bands
Cornsweet illusion
Watercolor illusion
Color assimilation
Negative afterimage
Ehrenstein illusion
Neon color spreading
Chubb illusion
Benham's top
Motion
Motion-induced blindness
Peripheral drift
Pinna-Brelstaff rings
Stepping feet
Motion aftereffect (waterfall illusion)
Troxler fading
Ouchi illusion
Barber pole illusion
Two ways to see it
Necker cube
Rubin vase
Schröder stairs
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What are optical illusions?
Illusions for kids
How strongly are you fooled?
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Müller-Lyer illusion
Ebbinghaus illusion
Delboeuf illusion
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Simultaneous contrast
White’s illusion
Hermann grid
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Motion-induced blindness
Peripheral drift
Pinna-Brelstaff rings
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Necker cube
Rubin vase
Schröder stairs
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What are optical illusions?
Illusions for kids
How strongly are you fooled?
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Optical Illusion Guides
What illusions are, the best ones for kids and a test of how strongly you are fooled.
How Strongly Are You Fooled? Take the Illusion Test
Measure how strongly optical illusions fool you: set the lines in the vertical-horizontal illusion until they look equal, then see your sco…
Optical Illusions for Kids
Ten easy, safe optical illusions for kids to play with online, each with a simple explanation and a quick challenge, good for classrooms an…
Printable Optical Illusions Worksheet for the Classroom (Free)
A free printable optical illusions worksheet: 10 classic illusions with a question each and an answer page, ready to print for a classroom,…
What Are Optical Illusions? How Your Brain Gets Fooled
What optical illusions are, the main kinds (size, light, motion and ambiguous figures) and what they reveal about how the brain builds what…