The most famous optical illusions
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Müller-Lyer illusion · Penrose triangle · The dress. (Updated Jul 6, 2025.)
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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Müller-Lyer illusion
1889: arrowheads make lines of the same length look different.
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Penrose triangle
The impossible figure made famous by Escher's art.
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The dress
In 2015 the internet split over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.
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The spinning dancer
Nobuyuki Kayahara's silhouette: which way it turns depends on the viewer.
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Café wall illusion
Straight horizontal lines look slanted.
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Impossible trident
A fork that has either three prongs or two.
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Ames room
A room where people seem to grow and shrink as they move.
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Shepard tables
Identical tabletops look completely different.
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Rubin vase
A vase, or two faces looking at each other?
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Lilac chaser
Stare at the lilac dots and a green dot starts moving around.
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Kanizsa triangle
A white triangle that isn't drawn seems to float.
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