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Exploratorium Online Exhibits

Exploratorium Online Exhibits

This site contains a set of optical illusions. These illusions are designed to show the user the biases and perception tricks their minds play on them while looking at different pictures. The different resources are titled: "Cafe Wall Illusion," "Squirming Palm," "Fading Dot," "Trapezoidal Window," "Bird in a Cage," "Changing Illusions," "Postcard Exhibits," Mix-n-Match," "Depth Spinner," "Sliding Gray Step," "Shimmer," "The Temple Illusion," and "Mona." All of these represent different types of illusions. This is a fun resource for students in physics.

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