Illusion Pop Art

Access since September 19, 2004


"Lake Ritsumeikan"

It appears as if there were a lake in the campus of the Ritsumeikan University.

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2006 (August 14)

Original photo


"Lake Ritsumeikan 2"

It appears as if there were a lake in the campus of the Ritsumeikan University.

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2006 (August 14)

Original photo


"Lake Ritsumeikan 3"

It appears as if there were a lake in the campus of the Ritsumeikan University.

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2006 (August 14)

Original photo


"Motion illusion in the homepage of a dentist"

Each column of buttons appears to move vertically.

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2004 (September 19)

The original homepage


"Eiden"*

*The Eizan Densha railway, which connects Demachiyanagi (a town in Kyoto) with Kurama (a mountain in Kyoto)

Cars appear to start to move a little.

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (December 23)


"A crab"

Blocks appear to move upward or downward. In addition, objects are all convex but half of them appear to be concave (the crater illusion).

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (December 8)


"Motion of textured paving blocks"

Blocks appear to move upward or downward*. In addition, objects are all convex but half of them appear to be concave (the crater illusion).

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (December 8)

*This effect was first pointed out in "Trick Eyes 2" (2003).

The original picture


"Return of the half moon"

The half moons appear to move.

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003 (November 18)


"The icon illusion of the Borland Delphi exe-files"

The words appears to tilt clockwise. Is this really the Zollner illusion?

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003


"Start buttons"

These buttons are the start buttons of Windows98 Japanese version. The upper four rows appear to move leftward while the lower four rows to move rightward. Moreover, the former appear to tilt down to the left while the latter to the right.

Copyright A.Kitaoka 2003


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