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Optical Illusions and Magic Words
Famous optical illusions and the words magicians use.
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- Optical illusionWordA picture that tricks your eyes or brain
- Muller-Lyer illusionWordTwo lines look different lengths because of the arrow ends, but they are the same
- Ponzo illusionWordTwo same-size lines look different when placed between converging lines
- Ebbinghaus illusionWordA circle looks bigger or smaller depending on the circles around it
- Rubin vaseWordAn image that looks like a vase or two faces
- Duck-rabbitWordA drawing that can look like a duck or a rabbit
- Necker cubeWordA line cube that seems to flip which face is in front
- Penrose triangleWordAn impossible triangle that cannot exist in real life
- Penrose stairsWordAn endless staircase that always goes up, impossible in real life
- Cafe wall illusionWordStraight lines look tilted because of shifted black and white tiles
- Hermann gridWordGray dots seem to appear where white lines cross
- Checker shadow illusionWordTwo squares look different but are the same shade
- AfterimageWordStaring at a color and looking away shows the opposite color
- Stroop effectWordIt is hard to say the color of ink when the word names another color
- Troxler fadingWordStaring makes things in your side vision fade
- Motion illusionWordA still picture seems to move
- Moon illusionWordThe Moon looks bigger near the horizon than high in the sky
- MirageWordA trick of light that makes water seem to appear on hot ground
- CamouflageWordBlending in so you are hard to see
- Forced perspectiveWordUsing distance to make something look bigger or smaller in a photo
- Impossible objectWordA drawing that looks real but cannot be built as drawn
- Hidden imageWordA picture hidden in another picture
- Stereogram (Magic Eye)WordA flat picture that shows 3D shapes when you relax your eyes
- Blind spotWordThe small spot in your vision where the optic nerve leaves the eye
- Persistence of visionWordWhy a quick series of pictures looks like movement
- FlipbookWordPages of drawings that make movement when flipped fast
- ZoetropeWordA spinning drum that makes pictures appear to move
- Illusion of sizeWordSame-size objects look different because of surroundings
- Sleight of handWordUsing fast, clever hand moves to fool the eye
- MisdirectionWordDrawing attention away from the secret move
- PrestidigitationWordA fancy word for magic done with the hands
- IllusionistWordA magician who performs large tricks
- Magician's assistantWordA helper on stage in a trick
- WandWordA thin stick magicians wave
- Top hatWordA tall hat from which rabbits seem to appear
- AbracadabraWordA magic word said before a trick
- PrestoWordA word magicians say when the trick is done
- PatterWordThe words a magician says during a trick
- The revealWordThe moment when the trick is shown
- The prestigeWordThe final surprising part of a trick
- ForceWordWhen a magician makes you choose the card they want
- PalmingWordHiding a small object in the palm
- ShuffleWordMixing a deck of cards
- Card trickWordA trick done with playing cards
- Coin trickWordA trick where a coin seems to vanish or move
- Rope trickWordA trick with a rope that seems to cut and join
- Mind reading actWordA show that seems to guess your thoughts
- HoudiniWordHarry Houdini, a famous escape artist of the early 1900s
- EscapologyWordThe art of escaping from ropes, chains or boxes
- Pull a rabbit out of a hatWordA classic magic trick image
- Cut and restored ropeWordA trick where the rope is cut and magically fixed
- Linking ringsWordA trick with metal rings that join and separate
- VanishingWordMaking something seem to disappear
- LevitationWordMaking something seem to float
- Fooled you!WordGood magicians never reveal their secrets
- Close-up magicWordTricks done right in front of people at a table
- Stage magicWordLarge tricks done for a big audience
- Street magicWordMagic performed for people out in public
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