Crazy Optical Illusions

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Crazy Optical Illusions: Artbook releases this October. 𓃰 crazyopticalillusions.net

Painting of a pipe by Magritte. Handwritten text below the pipe reads 'Ceci une pipe.' A modern caption above reads 'Wait I could've sworn this wasn't a pipe'.
"Hello. Thank you for your support of our work. Our first project, 'Crazy Optical Illusions: Artbook', is delayed from our initial estimated shipping date. The new estimated shipping date is now October 2026. We can only apologise. Thank you for your patience. Using this extra time, we've been busy adding new designs, commissioning artists for spreads, and putting extra surprises in the box. If the new estimated shipping date means you're no longer interested in receiving your book for any reason, you can cancel your order by emailing orders@crazyopticalillusions.net. We'll be happy to refund you in full. Thank you again, so much, for your patience. We really hope you enjoy the book when it arrives. 𓃰"
An interpretation of the 'Uniformity Illusion' by Ryota Kanai. A grid of thin white square lines is on a black background. The further from the centre of the grid, the more the lines appear to become displaced and misaligned. Text above the grid says 'Stare at the centre, your brain will make the lines straight'.
A photograph of Barack Obama's face printed upside down onto paper. Text to the right says: 'Ex. 1. Does Obama's face look normal? What about when turned upside down?'
A poster on a tree. The header reads '5G ELEPHANT', below which are two images of an elephant made of transparent energy. Text beneath reads: 'An elephant made of 5G energy has been appearing on our lawn & staring at our home'. 'Worried for family - we are not vaccinated'. 'CALLED THE PORK (POLICE) AND THEY SAID "INTERESTING. HAVE YOU TRIED TAKING A CLOSER LOOK?" BASTARDS' Question marks indicate where whoever took the photo has crossed out information. 'Please call Officer ???? & tell him to take my family's problem seriously.' A picture of a man dressed in black has his face crossed out. Beneath reads: 'OFFICER ???? ????' 'Badge #: ????' 'Children: 2 (Terry & Crumble)' 'Phone: ?????????????'
A page of the Crazy Optical Illusions: Artbook. Twitter users, printed onto the paper, debate about the number of legs and the legitimacy of the Shepard Elephant.
A page of the Crazy Optical Illusions: Artbook. An elephant with an indeterminable number of legs is printed large on the paper. Text to the left says, top to bottom, 'Roger Shepard's Shepard Elephant', 'How many legs does the elephant have?', and 'Posted on the 17th of April, 2020'.
A render of a book page, featuring replies from confused or mischievous social media users. From top to bottom: a user replies 'iont get it', with a screenshot of the quoted 'Endless Staircase' illusion. Another user replies with 'what are you talking about about its an endless staircase'. The original replier says '?'. Another user replies 'why cant i remember my childrens names'. A separate reply says, 'This isnt the endless staircase. None of your tweets are actual optical illusions, are you taking the piss?'. Another reply says, 'Who cares its a drawing'.
A diagram on a piece of paper. 21 grey boxes are placed inside a larger box's outline. They are all rotated at different angles. Text above reads: 'This is the mathematically optimal way to package 21 equally sized boxes inside of a larger box - minimising the space taken up as much as possible.'
A gif of a silhouette of a man, appearing to run thanks to the 'Moire effect' illusion. A black box with many slits move from left to right over a silhouette of a man made up of cut up vertical lines. Text above reads 'Your brain thinks this man is running'
A gif of the 'infinite chocolate' visual trick but played in reverse. Chocoate blocks appear to be added back to the bar of chocolate, block by block. Text to the left reads, 'please stop doing that'.
A gif of the Crazy Optical Illusions website. A 3D book, surrounded by references to illusions, opens to reveal the text 'Welcome. 𓃰'
A gif of an optical illusion. Yellow and blue discs spin on a grey background, with arrows pointing in which direction they appear to be translating or scaling. Text above the discs reads: 'Although it may appear as though the discs are moving, it is actually the arrows tricking your brain!'
A gif of the 'shades of grey' illusion being blown up by rockets. Two blocks on top of each other sit in a flat 3D landscape. The blocks are seemingly coloured different shades of grey, but they are the same shade. The caption above reads 'Your brain thinks these blocks are two different colours'.
Render of a page of the Crazy Optical Illusions: Artbook. Featured on the page is the above 'Impossible Cubes' illusion.
A picture of a book, featuring a set of 12 yellow cubes on a page, framed inside a blue border. The cubes are arranged in a square pattern that may or may not be possible in the real world. Text above reads 'The Impossible Cubes'. Text below reads 'Can you really arrange a set of cubes in this fashion.' Text at the bottom reads '20', for page 20.
Render of a page of the Crazy Optical Illusion: Artbook. Featured on the page is the above 'Can you work out how many blocks there are?' illusion.
An optical illusion. An orange and blue room seems to spin. A caption above reads 'Your brain tricks you into thinking this image is moving'.
An illustration of two characters, stood either side of an indeterminable number of blocks on the floor. Text below asks: 'Can you work out how many blocks there are?'. The left character claims '4' in a speech bubble, while the right character claims '3'.
A photo of a printed optical illusion. A box of many straight, diagonal lines sits above text that reads, 'SHAKE YOUR HEAD To see the picture"
Facts about English as a tricky language. Each box has it's own short fact. From top left to bottom right: 'English is the only language where you can drive on driveways. It’s also the only language where you can walk on walkways.' 'Your fingers have fingertips and your toes have toetips. You can ‘tiptoe’ and reach high up objects with your ‘fingertips’.' 'The word Queue is Q followed by four letters.' 'You can be a jailer in prison, but you can’t be a prisoner in jail.' 'When you transport something by car, the ‘car’ ‘go’. but when you transport something by ship, it’s called a shipment.'
A screen recording of someone playing the 'Scary Maze Game'. The small, player-controlled square reaches the tight section at the end of Level 3. After getting to the goal, the game switches to Level 4, which jumpscares the player with a map design shaped like the word 'Boo!' and a scary noise. Upon then reaching the end of Level 4, the player is congratulated by the game for completing the game.
Photo of Roger Shepard next to his Shepard Elephant in 2019. Credit to HouseOfChange on Wikipedia.
A top down 3D render of a closed artbook. Featuring a debossed elephant centred on the hard cover.
Illustration of a 'Shepard Elephant', an elephant with an indiscernable number of legs.
An illustration of a strange-looking staircase. The steps of the staircase appear to lead both up and down at the same time. Text near the bottom left says 'FIG. 14-2'.
A graphic of an optical illusion. There is a 3D plane textured with a dark grey and light grey chequered pattern, with the letters 'A' and 'B' labelling two side-by-side squares, and a green cylinder on the right side of the plane, casting a shadow. Square B is slightly in the shadow of the green cylinder. A green text box to the right asks: 'Which square is darker? A or B?'
Screenshot of an X conversation, a user asks Grok "@grok Is this true?". Grok replies, "Yes, it's true. This is the Hering illusions - those vertical lines are perfectly straight, but the radial background makes them appear to bulge. Try covering the background or using a ruler to confirm!"
A render of an artbook by Crazy Optical Illusions. Framed close-up on replies from Twitter users.
Printed illustration of an ambiguously-shaped animal that can be seen as either a duck or a rabbit depending on orientation and or worldview. Text next to the illustration reads 'Is this a drawing of a rabbit or a duck?'