All these brilliantly beautiful, surprising images are out to fool your eye! For example, even though a shape has only two or three colors, the background can trick you into thinking there’s a rainbow of tints and shades. Or, the same grid of squares can look completely different depending on whether it has an outline or not. Plus: decipher “alien writing,” figure out whether the animal in a drawing is a pink flamingo or Indian elephant, and observe mystic spirals.Look carefully at these color images and what do you see? Not so fast! The illusions you'll try to figure out here are so ingenious, they'll baffle you, and so colorful, they'll dazzle you. Question what's in right front of your eyes: Is the red house closer than the blue one? Which one of three geometric shapes fits into a pentagonal hole? Can you make out the donkey in the monkeys? A treasure chest of optical illusion confusion.
