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Impossible LEGO Sculptures and Optical Illusions

by Sonia

Thanks to the advent of digital art software like Adobe Photoshop, optical illusions have become extremely easy to create. So easy, in fact, that it’s far more impressive to actually create a sculpture of your optical illusion than it is to create an image these days. LEGO bricks are a unique, eye-catching and accessible way to do this, and numerous artists now construct optical illusions entirely with LEGO bricks.

Here are some types of impossible LEGO sculptures.

Impossible Triangles

Lego Optical Illusions

Lego Optical Illusions


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Awesome Examples of Optical Illusions in Advertising

March 17, 2011
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We live in the computer age. Show us a picture of a giant snake squeezing a city bus or a woman standing next to her 12′ tall house cat, and without missing a beat, we’ll exclaim “cool photo manip.” In this era of photo manipulations and image brushing, it’s getting harder and harder for advertisers [...]

Dual-Meaning Typography – Art, Designs and Illusions

November 15, 2010
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(Image by Peter Sebastian, the master of dual-meaning typography) What is Dual-meaning Typography? When you give some serious thought to design, whether on the web or hard copy, the ultimate goal is communication. And without the art of typography, communication would be extremely difficult, if not altogether impossible. Ah, you are thinking: Well, DUH; of [...]

Black Ball Optical Illusion

December 27, 2008

Ok. Here is a question for you. Are the balls between the black squares in the image black, or white? Or maybe they are gray? Hmmm.

The Jesus Illusion

September 14, 2007

Hold on, hold on. Before everyone goes and gets all upset with me, this is not a jab at Christianity. It’s actually an illusion that features Jesus! You might need to stare at the lines for a few minutes, but after a little while you’ll begin to see the outline of a figure. I found [...]

A Collection of Optical Illusions

August 3, 2007

The following videos contain a huge number of optical illusions to daze, confuse and amuse you. And the nice thing is you don’t have to do any work. Just sit there and stare into the shiny computer screen. Now, look into my eyes…

Get Your Virtual Haircut and Other Auditory Illusions

May 13, 2007

My buddy Hrafn over at Think Artificial found this fantastic audio recording that sounds exactly like you’re getting a haircut. I thought it was so cool that I had to do some research. These are called Holophonic sounds and are made to be listened to with headphones. They are recorded with a dummy head that [...]