Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators(essex.ac.uk)
76 points by gmays | 16 comments
University of Essex news release reporting research on how butterflies use optical illusions in their wing patterns to evade predators.
#optical-illusions on Hacker News
4 stories tagged optical-illusions, newest first.
Lunar Terminator Paradox(notes.secretsauce.net)
97 points by dima55 | 64 comments
Blog post by Dima Kogan explaining the lunar terminator paradox optical illusion, using a program he wrote to work out why the moon's lit side seems misaligned with the sun.
Visual Anagrams: Generating optical illusions with diffusion models(dangeng.github.io)
758 points by beefman | 64 comments
Project page for Visual Anagrams, a University of Michigan research paper using pretrained diffusion models to generate multi-view optical illusions.
Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages(ritsumei.ac.jp)
354 points by robin_reala | 56 comments
Personal website of Ritsumeikan University psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka showcasing his optical and anomalous motion illusion artworks and research.