The Stopped Clock Illusion

Chronostasis (from Greek χρόνος, chrónos, “time” and στάσις “standing”) is the illusion in which the first impression following a saccade (quick eye movement) appears to be extended in time. The most well-known version of this illusion is the stopped-clock illusion, where the first movement of the second hand of an analog clock, following the viewer’s directing attention to the clock, appears to take longer than the next movement. When eyes execute a saccade, perception of time stretches slightly backward. The viewer’s brain registers that they have been looking at the clock for slightly longer than they really have, producing the illusion that the second-hand is frozen for more than a second. Although this happens every time the eyes move from one fixation point to the next, it is rarely noticed. One explanation is that the brain is filling in the gap while the eyes move from looking at one thing to the next.
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FANTASTIC PENCIL ILLUSION!

Pencil Illusion by Adam Johnston of an original drawing by JD Hillberry. .IF YOU LIKE PENCIL DRAWINGS WATCH THIS! For more from JD Hillberry please visit his website http://www.jdhillberry.com/
LINK: Youtube

Skull Bookshelves

James Hopkins brings memento mori art to your bookshelf: take a look at the Vanitas series, where he carefully arranged certain objects to create the illusion of skulls on bookshelves. Laughing Squid has the gallery: Link, Via: Neatorama
Previously on Neatorama: Perspective Sculptures by James Hopkins

Fantasmagorie

Fantasmagorie is an 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl (born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet). It is one of the earliest examples of traditional animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. To make this film, Cohl placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings.

In 1908, chalkboard caricaturists were common vaudeville attractions and the characters in the film look as though they've been drawn on a chalkboard, but it's an illusion. By filming black lines on paper and then printing in negative Cohl makes his animations appear to be chalk drawings. LINK: The Presurfer, Via: Youtube

Amazing 3D Paper Steps!

3D paper stairs. Is it an illusion? Sort of! For the most part it's simply an incredibly easy project with stunning results. All you need is a hobby knife and some paper. LINK: Youtube

Try it yourself!
Download the template here:

http://i.imgur.com/EyOMM.jpg

Cut along the solid lines
Fold the thin dashed lines outward
Fold the thick dashed lines inward

Trippy Stoner Illusion

Video By: bullaboi. LINK: Youtube

Illusions in Advertising: Gestalt

More advertising illusions. Gestalt: The whole is different from the sum of its parts. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Montage of perceptual illusions in advertising. LINK: Youtube

Amazing Gravity Illusion!

Watch these objects move up hill. LINK: Youtube

Tables Illusion

Both table tops in the picture above are the same size.
Here's the proof.



LINK: The Presourfer, Via: Youtube

Tunnel Vision Illusion

Watch what happens when you get closer and farther away from this drawing! Watch in full screen. 1080p HD available too! LINK: Youtube

Rubiks Cube Poster Illusion!

Check out this poster and how the hallways seem to change perspective when you change the camera angle. LINK: Youtube

Drawing Illusion

Amazing, Via: Youtube

Lines of Confusion Illusion

“Further proof that you cannot always trust what your eyes see.” LINK, Via: Youtube

Crazy Nuts Illusion!

LINK: Youtube

Mexico's Underwater River

Diver Anatoly Beloshchin shot this footage in an underwater cavern at Cenote Angelita, Mexico. The illusion of a river is most commonly attributed to a layer of hydrogen sulfide. LINK: Neatorama, Via: Youtube

The Skybike

“Skybike: is a custom made bicycle that you ride upside-down. This unusual position of riding creates the illusion that you are riding on the sky.”

Marios Diamantis thesis project for the ITProgram 2009. LINK, Via: Youtube

Chop Cup Illusion

It’s the classic shell game, with a neat twist that may surprise you!

CHOP CUP from :weareom: on Vimeo.

Via: UniqueDaily, Via: Neatorama

Escher's Illusion: Car Advertisements

Framestore CFC Creates M.C. Escher "Illusions" for Audi. LINK, Via: Youtube

Paper Landscape at Les Voutes in Paris

by Guy Sherwin
1975/2006
9mins Colour Silent Super 8
The filmmaker interacts with film projected onto a transparent screen, playing with the illusion of time and space.

Performed at Les Voutes in 2006. Organized by Lightcone Paris.

Paper Landscape plays with the illusory space within the screen by working directly with the material of the screen. A live performance is played off against a filmed record of a past event.

It starts with the projector illuminating a transparent polythene screen. Behind the screen stands the performer/filmmaker who applies white paint to the polythene. As a result the film image is revealed; it shows the same performer slowly tearing up a paper screen of the same size, to reveal a landscape. With the live performer gradually walling himself in behind a layer of white paint, the attention of the audience turns increasingly to the image of landscape projected onto this surface, and to the illusory performer who demonstrates the nature of deep space by running into the distance until he has merged with the landscape. Finally the confines of the cinema space are dramatically reaffirmed as the live performer slices the screen and steps through into the space that the audience occupies. LINK: Youtube

Amazing Audio Illusion

When this video is done playing, replay it to hear an amazing audio illusion. It sounds like the tune is continuing to 'creep-up.' LINK