OPTICAL ILLUSION

By
Hina mehboob

Optical illusion
Optical illusion is visually perceived image that
differ from objective reality.
Information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give
a perception that does not tally with a physical measurement of the
stimulus source.
The word optical means something to do with the eye. The word Illusion means
its something that's not what it seems. So the word OPTICAL ILLUSIONS means
something that isn't what it looks like

Types of illusion
There are three main types:
literal optical illusions that create images that
are different from the objects that make them,
physiological ones that are the effects on the
eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a
specific type (brightness, colour, size, position,
tilt, movement), and
cognitive illusions, the result of unconscious
inferences.

History Of Optical
Illusion

During the different periods of time different types of optical illusions have
become popular. Here are some different examples of all the kinds of
illusion art.
A Famous Illusion
Back in 1915, a cartoonist named W.E. Hill first published this drawing. It's
hard to see what it's supposed to be.
Is it a drawing of a pretty young girl looking away from us? Or is it an older
woman looking down at the floor?
Well, it's both. The key is perception and what you expect to see.
This simple line drawing is titled, "Mother, Father, and daughter" (Fisher,
1968) because it contains the faces of all three people in the title.
How many faces can you find?

 Optical illusions work because our minds

aren't made to view exact cuts or two
pictures at the same time. Therefore, our
mind shows us an illusion but the main thing
that makes an illusions are the colors( If the
illusion isn't moving ). Almost everyone sees
an illusion each day. For instance, every
animation or movie is an illusion. It's just a
bunch of still pictures played very quickly at
the movies. It's always an illusion (animation
or even if it's 3D)

 In the 1900's pointillism was a kind of art, created

by Gorges Seurat was what looked like an entire
picture, but it was made out of tiny dots.

In a sense all painting is based on tricks of visual perception: using rules of perspective to
give the illusion of three-dimensional space, mixing colors to give the impression of light
and shadow, and so on. With Optical Art, the rules that the eye applies to makes sense of
a visual image are themselves the "subject" of the artwork.

In the 1930's and 40's M.C Esher did pictures of

mind boggling pictures

the 1960's, the term "Op Art" was coined to describe the work of a growing group
of abstract painters. was a type of art that looked like it was moving

Rotating
Wedge
Illusion

Black Dot Illusion

Count the black dots!

Color and shapes

Spontaneous Motion Illusion

Caf Wall Illusion

Are the horizontal lines parallel or do they slope?

Size Illusion

Would you believe that the center circles are the same size?

 In the mid-20th century, some artists experimented with

Optical Artwork, although not abstract, also deals extensively
with various forms of visual tricks and paradoxes.

texture

Can you find the dog?

Oscillating Figure
Illusions

Perspective and depth

Do you see a cube missing a corner?

Or do you see a small cube in a big one?