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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Optical illusion	4,506
2	Pareidolia	3,641
3	The Spinning Dancer	2,915
4	Trompe-l'œil	2,182
5	Body painting	2,129
6	Penrose stairs	1,600
7	Benham's top	1,515
8	Necker Cube	1,261
9	Zoetrope	1,229
10	Autostereogram	1,158
11	Penrose triangle	1,101
12	Impossible object	1,048
13	Liquid crystal shutter glasses	927
14	Gravity hill	858
15	Pepper's ghost	830
16	Afterimage	759
17	Barber's pole	744
18	Demi's Birthday Suit	734
19	Scintillating scotoma	722
20	Moon illusion	687
21	Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena	644
22	Same color illusion	628
23	Forced perspective	606
24	Ames room	549
25	Blivet	483
26	Three hares	479
27	Julian Beever	436
28	Figure-ground (perception)	410
29	Magic Eye	402
30	Phi phenomenon	385
31	Thaumatrope	382
32	Müller-Lyer illusion	373
33	Ponzo illusion	361
34	Lilac chaser	351
35	Entasis	339
36	Color constancy	309
37	Mach bands	298
38	Missing square puzzle	279
39	Pulfrich effect	252
40	Rubin vase	240
41	Hollow-Face illusion	216
42	Kanizsa triangle	207
43	McCollough effect	204
44	Grid illusion	185
45	Phantogram	185
46	Wagon-wheel effect	182
47	Stroboscopic effect	174
48	Café wall illusion	167
49	Chubb illusion	159
50	Beta movement	149
51	Ebbinghaus illusion	149
52	Micropsia	146
53	Autokinetic effect	135
54	Motion aftereffect	131
55	Cornsweet illusion	121
56	Troxler's fading	108
57	Hidden faces	106
58	Ambiguous image	103
59	Zöllner illusion	96
60	Hering illusion	95
61	Ehrenstein illusion	93
62	ASCII stereogram	90
63	Disappearing Model	89
64	Macropsia	86
65	Illusory motion	83
66	Musion Eyeliner	81
67	Barberpole illusion	79
68	Fraser spiral illusion	76
69	Poggendorff illusion	75
70	Filling-in	75
71	Illusory contours	70
72	Fechner color	64
73	Glasstron	63
74	Wundt illusion	61
75	Pseudoscope	60
76	Bezold effect	59
77	Contour rivalry	59
78	White's illusion	48
79	Ames trapezoid	48
80	Perceived visual angle	48
81	Peripheral drift illusion	39
82	Orbison illusion	37
83	Color Phi phenomenon	37
84	Delboeuf illusion	34
85	Jastrow illusion	33
86	Flash lag illusion	32
87	Makyoh	30
88	Multistability	29
89	Numerosity adaptation effect	28
90	Contingent perceptual aftereffect	25
91	Sara Watson	25
92	Catoptric cistula	24
93	Hybrid image	22
94	Isometric illusion	21
95	Motion induced blindness	21
96	Sander illusion	19
97	Irradiation illusion	18
98	Vertical–horizontal illusion	18
99	Swept-plane display	13
100	Ternus illusion	12
101	Convergence micropsia	12
102	Positive visual phenomena	12
103	Magnetic hills	less than 5 views
104	Optical illusions	less than 5 views

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Further information: optical illusion

An optical illusion is any illusion that deceives the human visual system into perceiving something that is not present or incorrectly perceiving what is present.

Subcategories

This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.

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[+] Gravity hills (12 P)

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[+] Impossible objects (16 P)

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[+] Stereoscopy (1 C, 31 P)

Pages in category "Optical illusions"

The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).

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Jastrow illusion

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Necker Cube

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Orbison illusion

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Rubin vase

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Vertical–horizontal illusion

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Media in category "Optical illusions"

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