Reflection

Infinity pools are beautiful, when you are in and around them, they look like the water is endless, or as if it blends either with an infinite amount of water or the sky behind them.

We have sketched how they really work; while your eyes are seeing a border of water that blends with the large amounts of water in the background or with the sky.  The water at the far border of the pool, actually flows into a reservoir in the back which is pumped back into the pool.

The latest buzz in the optical illusion world surrounds Disney’s newest patent (WIPO WO2008/021605A1) about an optical illusion device that will be used as part of a drinking bottle. This patent is intended to significantly help with shelf appeal of their drink products, by surpassing conventional packaging methodologies.

This was an excellent use of camouflage that was shown in Jack Black's "Be Kind Rewind movie. The invisibility effect was realized using painted garments. The effect probably works very well if it is viewed from the right direction; it was very well received by the audience as people laughed during this scene. The movie also features a lot of optical illusions that the actors use to portrait some of the most famous scenes in classic movies.

New technologies in camouflage are being actively researched and developed in many parts of the world; this University of Tokyo-Japan video shows something they coined as optical quasi-invisibility cloak in which the background image is cropped and projected on a reflective surface; this projection is very dependent on the angle from which the camouflage is viewed as in the case of the "Be kind rewind movie".

This is quite an interesting German prank that fooled many. It required a lot of preparation of the scene and the actors involved in this prank.

In this amazing optical illusion, a pair of twins stand each other in a bathroom which is the exact reflection of the other bathroom. The bathrooms are separated by what seems to be a mirror, but in reality is just a very clean transparent glass. One of the two bathrooms is sealed so that people enter on only one bathroom. The twins have learned to move and walk as if one were the reflection of the other; they have also learned to talk at exactly the same time.

Light is one of the most common but yet puzzling phenomena. It is both energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation and mass composed of elementary particles called photons. Before humans and animals and the earth there was light, yet, after so many years on this earth we can't still figure it out completely.