Optical illusions created in the AI art generator 'Illusion Diffusion'. A new AI image generator has dropped, allowing users to effortlessly create their own optical illusions at the click of a button ...

Optical illusions are older than you think. The first optical illusions date back to 20,000 BC and took the form of cave sculptings. Nowadays they are found all over the place – on screens, in books ...

The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception. By Katrina Miller Take a look at this video of a waiting ...

Check out some of these optical illusions, below — and see how you perceive images placed before your eyes. Just how do optical illusions work? "From an evolutionary standpoint, optical illusion is ...

Optical illusions with hidden images are real-time tests of your observation power. Test your visual processing skills with ...

These three optical illusions seem to exist in a parallel universe in this viral video. "You didn't beat the gravity you just beat my brain," wrote one baffled TikTok commenter. These mental litmus ...

The best optical illusions are often the unexpected, and this hypnotising feast for the eyes is no different. Deceptively unassuming yet surprisingly mind-boggling when put into action, the All Seeing ...

Illusions teach us how our brain constructs a three-dimensional reality using 2-D images. Optical illusions are fun, but they can also teach us a lot about how our brains work. In particular, how our ...

How optical illusions work has been long-debated among scientists and philosophers, who wonder whether these illusions stem from neural processing in the eye or involve higher-level cognitive ...