The walls quite literally come alive at the 2012 Magic Art special exhibition in Hangzhou, China.  The exhibition features a series of 3D paintings created by South Korean artists.  The deceptive painting below shows a giraffe leaning through an opening in the wall and reaching for a bottle (also painted on the wall).

The  Eureka Tower Carpark in Melbourne, Australia contains of series of anamorphic letter illusions designed by German artist Axel Peemoeller.  The letters can be read perfectly when viewed at certain angles, but appear distorted when viewed from all other angles.  The example below shows the how the letters form the word “UP” as a motorist approaches the up ramp.

Continue reading this post for additional anamorphic lettering created for the Eureka Car Park project.

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Watch this video of a faucet as it appears to hover in midair.  Where exactly is the water pouring from the faucet originating from?  This product would certainly breathe some life to an otherwise boring garden or backyard.

Today’s illusion is titled “Double Truncated Pyramids” by op artist Robin Hunnam.  These “double pyramids” appear to form a series of strange three-dimensional towers.  Do you perceive depth in this image?

To view more of Robin’s work, please visit his blog – Grasshoppermind.

English painter Norman Parker describes his painting style as “neo-surrealism”.  He creates surrealistic imagery without the surrealistic ideology.  His work below titled Study for an Impossible Viaduct features a painting of a local landscape and a self-portrait of the artist himself.

This image is also featured in The Art of the Illusion, a new optical illusion art book now available in hardcover.

A photographic mosaic uses a series of smaller photographs to create a larger recognizable image.  The example below uses hexagon-shaped photographs of birds and other nature-related imagery.  When put together in a special way (with the help of a software program), they form a larger image of a seagull.  The seagull can be seen more clearly by either squinting your eyes or standing further away from your screen.

Image found on Wikipedia.

James Hopkins created this sculpture titled Kyle, Stan, Cartman & Kenny in 2006 for a private collection.  It is made from acrylic plastic and also happens to be an optical illusion.  Can you figure out why?

This is actually an anamorphic sculpture that only resembles the South Park gang when viewed from one specific angle.  A photograph from a different angle reveals the illusion.