Strangest Optical Illusions Known to Science

The eye is not merely a window on the world, but a camera and the mind does a lot of processing to produce the world as we see it.  To illustrate this idea, MICHELLE STARR at ScienceAlert has compiled a great set of mindbending optical illusions:

Strangest Otical Illusions Known to Science 
 

Here are the pictures mentioned and further information on each one:

The Dress - Do you see white and gold or blue and gold?

 

Wikipedia Article on the Dress 

The Non-Red Strawberries

Matt Lieberman's Twitter Page on the Strawberries 

The cafe wall illusion

 Illusion Index Page on the Cafe Wall Illusion

 The Illusion Index site also provides information on many other illusions.

Curvature blindness illusion

Original Article by the discoverer:

Curvature Blindness Illusion by Kohske Takahashi 

The Spinning Dancer

Ragu Kattinakere: Spinning Lady Illusion Explained


The Dancing Black Dots

 

Ninio's Extinction Illusion 

Here's why you can't see all twelve black dots 
in this optical illusion 


 The Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion

 

Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion:  How it Works