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It's like you've walked into the Bizarro Universe. But it's just architecture and city infrastructure fooling your eyes. Australian Customs Service

The Hausmannian building on Georges V Avenue in Paris has been referred to as the ‘melting building.’ It’s actually a mural, and an optical illusion referred to as trompe l’oeil (trick the eye).

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Italian artist under the nickname Peeta transforms static buildings into visually-striking optical illusions, by painting abstract shapes onto them. The artist paints murals that appear to be dissolving, morphing and ever-changing as the illusions depend on the viewing angle. "When painting on walls, my aim is always to create a dialogue with the structural and cultural parameters of the surrounding context, either architectural or not," Peeta says in his official website.

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Image 5 of 34 from gallery of Victor Enrich Transforms Architectural Images Into Optical Illusions. Photograph by Victor Enrich

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British tile company Casa Ceramica have designed a novel optical illusion flooring system that uses real tiles to create a vertigo-inducing warped floor. The skewed checkerboard floor functions as the entryway to their showroom in Manchester, lending an Alice in Wonderland atmosphere to a generally traditional medium. You can see a couple more photos onContinue reading "An Optical Illusion Tile System Designed by Casa Ceramica"

French artist JR unveiled an imposing artwork at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence last week that mimics a massive gash in the institution’s Renaissance-era facade. Spanning 28 x 33 meters, “La Ferita,” or “The Wound,” is an anamorphic collage that appears to reveal the iconic artworks housed inside the building, in addition to a stately courtyard colonnade, exhibition hall, and library. Exposing different parts of the interior as the viewer shifts position, the artwork is in response to the lack…

It’s no secret that our minds often play tricks on us. Just take a look at our previous post on optical illusions that almost gave people a heart attack and browse through this list of optical illusions in everyday things that left people seriously confused.

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It's like you've walked into the Bizarro Universe. But it's just architecture and city infrastructure fooling your eyes. Australian Customs Service

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