It's all Illusion!

Optical Illusions are a part of Art that are fascinating as well as entertaining. We will be studying how illusion plays a part of Art. There is a connection with Mathematics and Science, because of the way these images trick our eyes and alter our perception of the world around us.

We watched the following video, which introduced the topic. It shows how our mind makes up for what our eyes see. It is about what we perceive to be reality but is in fact an illusion.

Illusions (Part One) from Animal on Vimeo.

The next part of the lesson was to explore the many different types of illusions that are around, finding many different and creative optical illusions. 

We then watched another video by Brusspup on Youtube who created a little T-rex that when filmed looks like it is turning its head... so we then made our own,

What do you know about Optical illusions? Do you have a favourite optical illusion that you would like to share?