![]() ![]() Will you dare to relieve yourself surrounded with one way mirrors to those staring in from the outside.Īlso onsite for all to enjoy is our outdoor playground and the Margaret River Nuts & Cereals Gift Shop & Café – nuts, cereals, biscuits, honey, preserves, coffee, cake and ice cream. Wackiest Toilets in the Southern Hemisphere: These will be the most talked about toilets in Australia. Have your Head served on a Platter: The perfect photo opportunity of a meal made from your actual head. Watch the Walls come to Life: Artwork so real it appears to be alive.Īmazing Mirror Maze & Tricky Gate Maze: Have fun trying to find your way around these mind bending puzzles designed to entertain people of all ages. Life Size Pin Art: Life size pin art and other amazing optical illusions. This Alice in Wonderland type experience is always a favourite. Grow Big or Small in the Blink of an Eye: This room will appear normal but in reality it is distorted to enlarge or shrink those inside it almost instantly. Illusionary Artworks: Explore our gallery of artworks that showcase visual trickery at it’s best. Things appear to hang at impossible angles creating great photo opportunities. The Fata Morgana mirage looks like a flying saucer above the Etosha pan in Namibia, Africa. This Wow Illusions room is tilted at an angle so your brain will compensate and straightens the room confusing the displays. 9 Famous Mirages That Play Tricks on the Eyes. 13.Gravity Defying Room: Where the world seems unbalanced. Considering the original painter was a well-known addict to anise-flavoured spirit absinthe, maybe this is exactly how he envisioned the original painting. It's a great example of how our brains will twist an image based on how our eyes adjust to what they're seeing, and I could stare it for hours. By staring at the rotating image above, the famous illustration will come to life in a flurry of swirls and movement. We're seeing stars with this trippy Van Gogh optical illusion. Like in the previous example, there's a way to make it stop – try focusing on one single wheel. This happens because of how your eyes process an image, scanning it repeatedly while autofocusing and adjusting. No, like the first optical illusion we saw in our list, this is not a GIF but a still image – though the wheels appear to turn in front of your eyes. This is an illusion, featured in Clive Gifford's book Eye Benders (opens in new tab), and inspired by experimental psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka (opens in new tab). Your head might be spinning (Image credit: Cliver Gifford via The Guardian) There are also accidental optical illusions caused by things like atmospheric phenomena and the similarities or the position of an object at a particular moment (see the floating ship below). Well-known artists such as René Magritte created these kinds of illusions. And finally there are literal optical illusions, which aren't exactly illusions since they've been created intentionally to confuse the mind. The classic examples of these are the optical illusions used in psychological texts, where an image could be interpreted in two different ways. Then there are cognitive illusions, which are just as fascinating because they can be interpreted differently by different people. These are caused by physiological factors in the way our eyes and brains interpret elements such as brightness, angles, or movement. These are the 'true' optical illusions – images that make us interpret them the wrong way, for example a still image that appears to be moving or an image that appears to be a particular colour when it isn't. First there are physiological optical illusions. There are several different kinds of optical illusions, and most usually fall in one of four categories. ![]()
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