Imágenes que engañan

Desafíos

• Desafío · 7 imágenesLight and DarkSeven pictures about how light a thing looks — and how little that has to do with how light it is.Jugar — unos dos minutos →
• Desafío · 7 imágenesHow Long Is It?Seven pictures, seven comparisons of length and size. The rulers are hidden; your eyes are not.Jugar — unos dos minutos →
• Desafío · 5 imágenesStraight or Crooked?Five pictures of lines that are exactly straight, parallel or continuous — and do not look it. One question each.Jugar — unos dos minutos →
• Desafío · 5 imágenesLook TwiceFive pictures, one guess each: four walls of real websites hiding a shape, and a pair of lines. How many can you call before you look again?Jugar — unos dos minutos →

Originales de Pixeloom

Imágenes tejidas con los sitios que aparecen en Pixeloom. Cada tesela es un sitio web real, todos tienen el mismo número de teselas y nadie paga por su lugar.

• Original de Pixeloom · ColorTrue ColoursStare at a wall of websites in their opposite colours for twenty seconds, then watch their own colours appear on a grey one.
• Original de Pixeloom · OcultoUnder the LensA wall of real websites with a picture hidden in its light and dark — and a lens to find it with.
• Original de Pixeloom · OcultoStep Back YourselfA close-up of a wall of real websites and a slider. Step back until you can tell what they are drawing.
• Original de Pixeloom · Serie de 4What the Sites Are DrawingA wall of real websites, seen close up. Guess what they are drawing before you step back.

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• Original de Pixeloom · OcultoStep BackReal websites, woven so closely that the picture they make only appears when you step away from it.

Ilusiones y experimentos

Trucos clásicos de color, movimiento, tamaño y forma, cada uno explicado después de probarlo.

• GeometríaThe Café WallRows of black and white tiles, thin grey lines between them, and a question about which way those lines run.
• PerspectivaThe Railway LinesTwo orange bars laid across a railway track that runs off into the distance.
• GeometríaThe Hidden LineA line runs behind a band and comes out the other side. Three lines come out; only one is it.
• GeometríaParallel LinesSix long slanting lines, crossed with short strokes, and a question about whether they run side by side.
• GeometríaBowed LinesTwo red lines across a burst of rays. Are they straight?
• GeometríaRing AroundTwo dark discs, one in a tight ring and one in a wide one.
• GeometríaTwo ArchesTwo curved shapes, one above the other. One of them is bigger — or is it?
• GeometríaThe Tall TAn upside-down T. Which of its two lines is longer?
• GeometríaThe ParallelogramTwo red diagonals in two parallelograms, a big one and a small one.
• PerspectivaTurning the TablesTwo tables: one long and thin, one short and wide. Or are they?
• ColorTwo GreysA grey square on black and a grey square on white.
• ColorStripes and GreysGrey bars woven into black and white stripes, two ways.
• ColorThe StaircaseNine bars of grey, each one step lighter than the last.
• ColorSame OrangeOrange bars woven between yellow stripes on one side and blue stripes on the other.
• IlusiónThe Triangle That Isn’tThree black discs with a bite taken out of each, and a white triangle nobody drew.
• IlusiónGrey GhostsA grid of black squares and white streets. Something grey keeps turning up at the crossroads.
• IlusiónFlashing DotsGrey lines on black, a white dot at every crossing — and black dots that flash where nothing black is drawn.
• IlusiónThe Spiral That Isn’tA twisted cord winding in towards the centre. Or four circles.
• InteractivoTurning RingsTwo rings of small squares. Keep your eyes on the centre and move the picture in and out.
• ColorFading OutSix soft patches of colour around a cross. Stare at the cross and see what becomes of them.
• PerspectivaWhich Way It FacesA wire cube that cannot make up its mind which of its faces is at the front.
• GeometríaFilled SpaceTwo stretches between three marks: one filled with ticks, one left empty.
• GeometríaThe Company It KeepsTwo orange circles, two crowds around them, and one question about size.
• ColorThe Colour That Isn't ThereStare at a strange landscape for twenty seconds, then watch colour appear on a grey one.
• ColorThe Lilac ChaserTwelve lilac dots and one gap going round — keep your eyes still and see what the gap becomes.
• GeometríaEqual LinesTwo lines, a few fins, and a question that is easier to answer than it looks.
• MovimientoThe Floating DiscA picture in which nothing moves, and something will not keep still.
• OcultoNear and FarA field of fine lines with something else in it — visible only if you step back.