Strange Illusions

Old and Young - Crazy Optical Illusion Painting

The real beauty in this crazy picture is the attention to detail that the artist, Octavio Ocampo took. Try this: squint your eyes a little and you'll see that the man with the guitar fades away, ad the old man staring into the old woman's eyes really starts to pop out at you.

Perhaps the scariest part of this illusion is that the younger woman has some really mean sideburns! Look out!

Also, keep looking until you find: the young girl, the tequila bottle, and the giant vase! Quite a crazy optical illusion painting!

Impossible fractals

 A spiral tri-bar and hexagonally bound isometric spirals

An impossible fern (balanced 30° Pythagorean tree).

An impossible mushroom (45° Pythagorean tree).

45° Pythagorean tree, balanced 30° Pythagorean tree and extended tri-bar

Reutersvärd's "Meander" and a Hilbert meander

An impossible multibar Peano-Gosper curve.

Ernst's "Nest of impossible cubes" and two variations.

Subcube designs and Buch's "Cube in blue".

An impossible multibar cube and the Menger sponge after one and three iterations

Four-bar designs (with sharp and truncated generators) applied to the square Sierpinski curve

The Devil's gatling gun (two levels), timber offcuts (two levels) and comb (three levels).

The Devil's fork and the Cantor set.

Impossible gaskets are more troublesome

An alternative snowflake design that emphasizes the perceptual effect (with generator shown).

Two iterations of an impossible snowflake (with acute and obtuse generators shown).

The tri-bar, the Koch snowflake and the Sierpinski gasket.