# The most famous optical illusions

Lines of the same length that look different, a triangle that cannot exist, the dress that split the world into blue-and-black and white-and-gold: the famous illusions that fool our brains. Which one fools you most?

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- Jul 6, 2025 · 윤다은
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## Top 11

1. **Müller-Lyer illusion** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1889: arrowheads make lines of the same length look different.
2. **Penrose triangle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The impossible figure made famous by Escher's art.
3. **The dress** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — In 2015 the internet split over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.
4. **The spinning dancer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nobuyuki Kayahara's silhouette: which way it turns depends on the viewer.
5. **Café wall illusion** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Straight horizontal lines look slanted.
6. **Impossible trident** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A fork that has either three prongs or two.
7. **Ames room** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A room where people seem to grow and shrink as they move.
8. **Shepard tables** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Identical tabletops look completely different.
9. **Rubin vase** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A vase, or two faces looking at each other?
10. **Lilac chaser** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Stare at the lilac dots and a green dot starts moving around.
11. **Kanizsa triangle** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A white triangle that isn't drawn seems to float.

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