This is the most incredible visual trick I’ve ever seen, one that will make your entire reality melt—literally deforming everything in front of your eyes, shrinking and expanding objects around you. It’s mind-glowingly trippy (WARNING: Don’t try this if you are epileptic. It may cause seizures.)
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I’ve been on an Adventure Time binge lately, so I find this GIF from the episode The Real You absolutely stonestastic—just like the rest of the series, really. It should be called Ambien Time.
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You know the Hitchcock zoom effect: A camera on a dolly moves back or forward as the lenses zoom in or out, changing the field of view. French photographer Micaël Reynaud has created a new variation of the technique—which you can see above—combining the dolly zoom with slit-scan photography.
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Yes, like a slinky. These marble-looking sculptures that look like they’re from Ancient Greece are actually completely malleable, deformable, slinky-like art pieces. You see, the sculptures are made from thousands of sheets of paper to appear solid when still. When you tug at the sculpture though, you can stretch it out however you like.
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I squinted my eyes and covered the screen and looked away when I was watching this video by Tom Scott because I don’t want to have colored vertical and horizontal lines ingrained in my vision because my brain got fried from staring too long at the images in the video. So I suggest you do the same and look away. No, seriously. Don’t look too long or you’re going to start seeing stuff that’s not actually there.
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Whoa. Austin Motion Artists Group‘s computer-animated space warp is the grooviest 3 minutes you’ll witness today. It’s positively mesmerizing.
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Your eyes aren’t deceiving you, this house was actually built upside down. The roof is on the floor, the Mini Cooper is parked in the sky and every fixture in the house is flipped around. But when the house is upside down it’s actually right side up, if that makes any sense, because the interior is flipped too.
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I’m not sure there’s an explanation for this amazing set of pool tricks other than the guy doing them, professional pool trick shot player Florian Kohler, is just impossibly good at what he does or that Kohler has somehow found a way to coax all of the magnets on Earth to bend balls however he wants so they travel like they have their own brain on the felt. Somehow, the second explanation makes more sense after seeing this teaser for his upcoming trick shot compilation DVD. Balls move and change direction in ways that break physics.
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Look at these grey circles. They look bent, right? Like somebody put a ring in a vice and squeezed it? Actually, it’s just an incredible optical illusion courtesy of @SciencePorn. Both circles are perfectly round. Really. No really.
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It’s okay to be fooled by these ‘animated’ optical illusions. They totally look like they’re moving. Hell, the cat watching them was fooled too. But the truth is, they’re all just a masterful visual trick. The image isn’t actually moving, the special sheet in front of it just makes it seem that way.
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