These Mindbending Optical Illusions Will Break Your Brain

Shepard’s Table

Remember the impossible elephant? Roger Shepard’s Mind Sights (1990) features this simple yet confusing visual illusion, in which these two tables appear very different, but are actually identical. The perceptual error is caused by our brain’s desire to make a 3D interpretation of 2D images.

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