Friday, November 11, 2011

Impossible Motion – Awesome illusion

The image you see is of the winner of the 2010 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest. Called “Impossible Motion: Magnet-like Slopes.




This is a piece of an amazing illusion where it seems to deny gravity where the balls are traveling up the slopes rather than down. This is possible since the picture is placed on a flat surface like you monitor. The illusion makes it appear that objects are rolling towards higher ground. Looking closely won’t help, but looking from a different angle may.

This video is in real time and life, there are no special effect involved, just pure illusions. The illusion was created by Koukichi Sugihara from the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Japan.

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