3-Dimensional illusions cleverly created by draughtsmen. These are a collection of impossible objects.
3-Dimensional Columns
Do you see round columns, or square? How does the draughtsman do that?
Devil’s Tuning Fork
Question: Does the rod in the middle really exist? This perception illusion is often called the ‘Devil’s Tuning Fork’.
3-Dimensional Door
Is this door opening inwards? Or is the top opening out towards us?
3-D Optical Illusion – Beams
One beam seems to disappear in the middle.
An impossible object is a type of optical illusion where your brain interprets a two dimensional object as though it exists in 3-D, even though it is not geometrically possible for such an object to actually exist.
3-D Tongue and Groove Optical Illusion
The clever draughtsman has made the ‘tongue’ disappear.
3-D Classic Rectangle
The father of such impossible optical illusions is Oscar Reutersvärd (1915–2002). It was he who first drew what would become known as the Penrose Triangle, see below.
Penrose Triangle
Whirl Illusion
Instruction
Gaze at the middle one of the circles. That circle stops rotating, but your periferal vision sees the other circles spinning – eerie.
Please note: the above whirl image is not animated.
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