The rating of sites depends on several factors. If a site has lots of information,
a nice interface, regular updates and so on, it will receive a lot of stars. On the
other hand, if a site covers a very specific topic it will receive less stars. If a
site has a rating of 1 star is does not means it's bad, but it generally covers
a very specific subject. Plain bad sites are not mentioned in this list. The meaning
of the stars is :
 | Archimedes Lab Puzzle Site explore, learn and have fun with puzzles! |
 | Canon 3D Papercraft Beautiful 3D paper crafts to print and build. |
 | Impossible World The name is chosen well, there is no other site with so much impossible stuff. |
 | Virtual Dali The best site about Dali you'll find on the web. |
 | Worth1000 Enormous collection of altered photographs. Search the galleries for impossible and hidden images. |
 | 1001 Fonts - Hard to Read Fonts Create your own hard-to-read texts with these fonts. |
 | 3D Ambigram generator Generate your own 3D ambigram (like on the cover of Godel, Escher, Bach) |
 | Akiyoshi's illusion pages Amazing gallery of optical illusions, particularly motion illusions. |
 | Bev Doolittle Complete Art Collection Gallery with art and merchandise by Bev Doolitle. |
 | Cloud Gallery Lookalikes Clouds that look like things. |
 | Dark Roasted Blend - Optical illusion extravaganza A post about optical illusions on this excellent blog. |
 | Fold Money Fold dollars to see hidden images. |
 | Gardner Gallery Site of Steven M. Gardner with lots of camouflage wildlife art. |
 | Impossible World - Jos de Mey Impossible paintings by Jos de Mey. |
 | Jim Warren's Official Website Official site of Jim Warren with hidden images and lots of other great-looking stuff. |
 | Julian Beever's Pavement Drawings The site of the artist, incredible pavement drawings in chalk. |
 | Letterjames Write your text on a wall, in soup, on a scrabble board ... This is fun ! |
 | M.C. Escher Official M.C. Escher site. |
 | Michael Bach A few dozen of illusions are shown interactive and explained in a clear language. |
 | Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005 The ad shows the target audience for source safe. |
 | Octavio Ocampo Official site of the artist. |
 | Optical Illusions Etc ... Excellent blog on optical illusions. |
 | Peter Newell's Books Contains some complete books by Peter Newell. |
 | Saatchi Gallery - Duane Hanson Incredibly lifelike sculptures of ordinary people. Almost scary. |
 | Salvador Dali Art Gallery As the name says, gallery with works from Dali. |
 | SandlotScience One of the best sites around about optical illusions. |
 | Snopes.com - Sofitel Toilets A men's restroom where size does matter. |
 | The art of Bev Doolittle All hidden imagery by Bev Doolittle. Highly recommended ! |
 | The Easter Egg Archive You like hidden things ? This site is about hidden stuff - anywhere ! |
 | The Salvador Dali Museum Site of the Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg. |
 | The World of Escher The place to buy everything Escher. |
 | 10 Ways - Recursive image Keep zooming in on the photo's. You'll see what's so recursive about them. |
 | Alan M. Clark Official site of the artist |
 | Ambigram.Matic Ambigram generator : create your own ambigrams just by typing a text. |
 | Anagramsite Make your own anagrams the easy way. |
 | Andre Martins de Barros Official website of this creator of ambiguous art. |
 | Brain Teasers Nice collection of brain teasers, paradoxes and illusions. |
 | Braingle Brain Teasers and games |
 | Club Med - Faces ad campaign About the cool ad campaign with hidden faces. |
 | Coolbubble - Hidden pictures A small gallery with great hidden images. |
 | Creative Puzzles Puzzles to solve or to make yourself. |
 | Discovery Galleries - Rob Gonsalves Official site. |
 | Donald Rust's Online art - Illusions Camouflage art by Donald Rust. |
 | Escher and the Droste effect About self-containing images and the maths behind Escher's Print Gallery. |
 | Eyetricks - 3D stereograms Gallery of 3D stereogram images. |
 | Eyetricks - Illusions Gallery of optical illusions. |
 | Felice Varini Site of the artist, showing his special point-of-view art. |
 | Hidden Mickeys of Disney Hidden images in Disney movies. |
 | Illusoria Official site of Sandro Del-Prete. |
 | Imagine Art Studios - Rob Gonsalves Gallery of art by Rob Gonsalves, can be bought on this site. |
 | John Langdon Official site of the artist. |
 | Kurt Wenner: Master street painter Trompe l'Oeils on the ground |
 | MAD Fold-in! Several interactive fold-ins. |
 | Magic Eye Inc. Home of the 3D stereograms (the ones you have to look cross-eyed at). |
 | Make a text stereogram Make your own text stereograms. |
 | Maths Year 2000 Anamorphic Art In-depth explanation of how anamorphosis works. |
 | Optical Illusions 4 Kids Optical Illusions blog for kids. |
 | Powersource - Bev Doolittle Art Collection Collection of Bev Doolittle's Native American art. |
 | Punya's Visual Wordplay Gallery Lots of beautiful ambigrams. |
 | Puzzles.com One of the prettiest puzzle sites on the web. For beginners, advanced and experts. |
 | Puzzles.com - Optical illusions Some nicely drawn optical illusions. |
 | Puzzles.com - Puzzle links Several good links to other puzzle sites. |
 | Scott Kim Official site of the artist with lots of ambigrams and other word art. |
 | Strange Horizons - Folding Great article on folding paper. |
 | Trompe L'Oeil Murals Homepage of John Pugh. |
 | Visions Fine Art Gallery - Octavio Ocampo Show images for sale by Octavio Ocampo. |
 | Visions Fine Art Gallery - Rob Gonsalves Show images by Rob Gonsalves for sale. |
 | Visions Fine Art Gallery - Sandro Del-Prete Shows pictures from Sandro Del-Prete for sale. |
 | Amazing Art Images You can buy Octavio Ocampo's work here, as well as some vintage ambiguous images. |
 | Ambigram.com - Reversible Matchboxes Vintage matchboxes with heads on them that can be turned upside down. |
 | Art of Anamorphosis History and usage of anamorphosis plus software to make some yourself. |
 | Bernard Pras Site of the French installation artist. |
 | Cardmine Puzzles page Vintage trade cards and cigarette card puzzles. |
 | Dr. Sarah's Futurama Bender falling off the stairs- bigtime. |
 | Escherizing Applet Eschers "Print Gallery" explained. |
 | Escher's Ascending and Descending in LEGO Escher's Ascending and Descending made entirely in LEGO blocks. |
 | Escher's Waterfall in LEGO Escher's Waterfall made entirely in LEGO blocks. |
 | Flexagons How to make a flexagon. This is really cool, be sure to try it ! |
 | Framestore Audi Illusion Extremely cool commercial featuring an Audi A6 driving around in Escher landscapes. |
 | Lowave DVD - 7 Lines for 5 Triangles DVD about the making of "7 Lines for 5 Triangles". |
 | Optical Camouflage Harry Potters invisibility cloak ... For real. |
 | Post-Gazette - Bush Monkeys The story of the painting that caused an uproar. |
 | Skepdic - Pareidolia The Skeptic's Dictionary on seeing things where there aren't any. |
 | Skeptical Inquirer - Face on Mars Face on Mars and other non-mysteries |
 | The Great Illusion Some Jim Warrens images accompanied with poems. |
 | The Register - Flying Car Flying car captured on Google Earth |
 | Thinks - Puzzles by Sam Loyd Some more puzzles. |
 | Utisz Homepage of Istvan Orosz. |
 | 9News - Face in the smoke The Devil's face in the WTC smoke. |
 | Ambassadors: home page More than you ever wanted to know about Holbeins Ambassadors. |
 | An Analysis of the Cafe Wall Illusion More than you ever wanted to know about the Cafe wall illusion. |
 | Animating impossible objects Very technical paper on how to create animated impossible objects. |
 | C. Allan Gillbert More information about the artist. |
 | Checker Shadow Illusion Ted Adelsons page on the Checker Shadow illusion. |
 | Currier and Ives Lithographs More vintage lithographs from America's past. |
 | David Mac's Bizarre PhotoWorks Contains two excellent impossible renderings. |
 | Douglas Hofstadter Information on Douglas Hofstadter |
 | Edward H. Adelson Homepage Homepage of professor Adelson, with links to other illusions. |
 | FRANKLYN CARDS A brief history of cigarette cards Read this if you want to know more about cigarette cards. |
 | Good Things Come To Those Who Wait You'll understand the Guinnes coaster better. |
 | Gustave Verbeck Information about others comics by Verbeek. |
 | IMDB - Labyrinth About Labyrinth on IMDB. |
 | IMDB - The Rescuers The Rescuers on IMDB. |
 | Irvine Peacock Official site of Irvine Peacock. |
 | J.R. Stroop Biography Biography. |
 | Jastrow's Duck - Rabbit About the famous duck - rabbit illusion. |
 | Jesus Crucifixion Optical Illusion Tattoo Tattoo based on the "Crucifixion of Jesus" by Ocampo. |
 | Morphogenetic Fields And Beyond Rupert Sheldrakes BBC Experiment |
 | NASA - Face on Mars NASA captures new images of the face on Mars. |
 | N-sane - Photoshop Tutorials - Hidden Image How to make a hidden image like the "Secret Face of George Bush". |
 | Professor Nick Wade Homepage of Nicholas Wade. |
 | Sam Loyd Official site about the puzzle maker. |
 | Science Roadshow - Leprechauns How do those Leprechauns vanish ? |
 | Shinobu Ishigara More about this scientist. |
 | Snopes.com - Pepsi's Got a Lot to Give Did the stacking of two Pepsi cans spell out the word SEX ? |
 | Snopes.com - Cokelore Snort The hidden man in the Coca Cola logo. |
 | Snopes.com - Feel the curves ! About the hidden image on a Coke ad. |
 | Snopes.com - Grave Sight A headstone with a secret message. |
 | Snopes.com - Joe Carnal About hidden images on a pack of Camel cigarettes. |
 | Snopes.com - The Rescuers Naked woman in The Rescuers. |
 | The hypothesis of formative causation lives! About R. Sheldrakes morphogenetic experiments. |
 | The Sneeze - The Man Behind the FedEx Logo The FedEx logo designer. |
 | Walter Wick Site of the photographic illusion artist. |
 | Wikipedia - Chris Savido About the artist. |
 | Wikipedia - Giuseppe Arcimboldo More about this pioneer in ambiguity. |
 | Wikipedia - Rene Magritte About the artist. |
 | Wikipedia - Romanian shepherd This is what a real shepherd looks like |
 | Wikipedia - Subliminal Message More about subliminal messages. |
 | Wikipedia - Veja Magazine About the Brazilian magazine |