If 2020 hadn’t already turned your brain into a barely functional pile of gray mush, the Best Illusion of the Year Contest has just the thing to push it over the edge.
Every year a group of visual scientists, neurologists, ophthalmologists, and artists create and judge the best mind-benders of the year, and this year mathematician Kokichi Sugihara claimed the top prize again with an impossible 2D staircase illusion made 3D.
The illusions below and the best illusions of 2021 are not enough for you, we do have more illusions to make you feel dizzy. A new optical illusion apparently makes 86% of people feel like they’re falling into a black hole. There are plenty of optical illusions out there, and they are all just a click away.
