Optical Toys
A collection of interactive optical illusions and brain-bending digital toys that allow you to play with visual perception. The site features classic illusions like the Café Wall Illusion and the Thatcher Effect, as well as other visual curiosities like kaleidoscopes and vanishing puzzles. It provides a hands-on, playful experience with the science of how our eyes and brain interpret images.
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It preserves animation history. It allows you to play with digital versions of 19th-century optical devices like zoetropes and thaumatropes.
The illusions still work. Even in our high-tech world, these simple tricks of the eye are genuinely fascinating to watch.
It’s a hands-on science lesson. It intuitively teaches you about persistence of vision and how our brains construct movement from still images.
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