The newest Mind Blow on Vsauce2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkAIR5p9Ni8 LINKS AND SOURCES BELOW: FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce music by null and http://www.audionetwork.com/ brusspup anamorphic illusions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNHPk-Lnkk ANOMALOUS MOTION by Akiyoshi Kitaoka: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/motion12e.html "Out of Focus" by Akiyoshi Kitaoka: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/plaidm2.jpg anomalous motion explanations: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~williams/cs591/explanation.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OuchiIllusion.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_motion http://www.livescience.com/4950-key-optical-illusions-discovered.html how to make YOUR OWN anomalous motion images: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-Anomalous-Motion-Illusion Animal Collective illusion cover: http://diffuser.fm/animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion-50/ "illusion" etymology: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=illusion really great "game" etymology image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethanhein/2850602827/sizes/o/in/photostream/ dazzle paint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage "Command And Control" book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Control-Eric-Schlosser/dp/1846141486 Disneyland forced perspective: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/04/beast-castle-behind-the-scenes-with-walt-disney-imagineers/ Birds use forced perspective: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/09/male-bowerbirds-create-forced-perspective-illusions-that-only-females-see/#.UqDhW2RDtCp Müller-Lyer Illusion and culture: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/03/are-optical-illusions-cultural/ http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/socialperception14.pdf anamorphic illusions on street: http://www.deceptology.com/2011/05/slow-down-or-youll-kill-that-flat-kid.html http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/80516104/ anamorphic illusions STUART TRAY: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-secret-portrait-of-prince-charles-edward-stuart-167681 http://www.westhighlandmuseum.org.uk/collections/the-jacobites/secret-portrait/ Titanic and recovered bodies: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victims/135/ Titanic and optical illusions: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/10/science/titanic.html?_r=0 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Did-the-Titanic-Sink-Because-of-an-Optical-Illusion.html?c=y&page=1&navigation=previous#IMAGES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage) Tooth-drilling and optical illusions: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0077343 http://io9.com/an-optical-illusion-is-making-dentists-drill-holes-that-1459391735 The End of History illusion: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/Quoidbach%20et%20al%202013.pdf http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/science/study-in-science-shows-end-of-history-illusion.html?_r=0 http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/01/10/we-underestimate-our-changes-the-end-of-history-illusion/ The illusion of control: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/096317903321208880/abstract a bunch of neat illusions: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cspe/illusions/ Architectural illusions: http://weburbanist.com/2008/10/22/architectural-optical-illusions-distortions-designs/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_perspective http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_distortion_(photography) Ames room: http://img6.joyreactor.com/pics/post/gif-mindfuck-Ames-room-958726.gif