Every Optical Illusion in 8 Minutes

Every famous optical illusion in 8 minutes!
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- TIMESTAMPS -
0:00 Motion Aftereffect
0:18 Ames Room
0:39 Flashed Face Distortion Effect
0:51 Stepping Feet Illusion
1:03 Silencing Effect
1:21 Afterimage
1:39 Color Dove Illusion
1:53 Impossible Object
2:11 Hybrid Image
2:30 Ponzo Illusion
2:42 Poggendorff Illusion
2:53 Forced Perspective
3:05 Barberpole Illusion
3:15 Zolner Illusion
3:26 Café Wall Illusion
3:36 Wundt Illusion
3:48 Fraser Spiral
3:56 Vertical-horizontal Illusion
4:05 Crater Illusion
4:15 Kanisza Triangle
4:27 Kinetic Depth Effect
4:48 Rotating Snakes Effect
4:56 Ternus Illusion
5:07 Beta Movement
5:18 Phi Phenomenon
5:27 Lilac Chaser
5:47 Gravity Hill
5:55 Ebbinghaus Illusion
6:03 Stroboscopic Effect
6:21 Bezold Effect
6:33 Ehrenstein Illusion
6:40 Sander Illusion
6:55 Muller Lyer Effect
7:00 Hemrann Grid
7:07 Rubin's Vase
7:21 Contrast Illusion
7:50 Mach Bands
8:00 Leaning Tower Illusion
8:07 Hollow Face
8:17 Color Constancy
- SOURCES -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_room
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%B6...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaumat...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinnin...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilac_c...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossi...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezold_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_c...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_...
- DISCLAIMER -
Do not use this video as your only source of information. This video is for entertainment/edutainment purposes, and some information could be too oversimplified or incorrect. This channel's goal is to spark your curiosity and let you do your own research on these topics.

[@boysurfs]

This just goes to show how incredible vision is. The idea that you change how something is interpreted depending just on the orientation of said thing is crazy to me

[@rraahhhhh]

Aughhh

[@benjamincrew8383]

I love optical illusions where you can voluntarily change what you see

[@flyingsodwai1382]

To me it shows how poor humans are at seeing the world. And yet we think we are perfect recorders.

[@infamous7223]

Blud has a degree in yappanese

[@imjonathan6745]

everything is a lie

[@JJBeauregard1]

So many optical illusions shown quickly back to back made me woozy 😅

[@ManicMercurianAstrology]

Cheaper than the bar

[@eliseis9308]

😂

[@kelaidoscopekaleidoscope9871]

Yeah these definitely need to be longer. Like a hour.

[@Dani-ro7fl]

Thanks paint explainer for paint explaining so well

[@ireneoriveraiii8330]

loved the part when paint explainer paint explained all over the viewers, it was like a waterfall

[@plastican]

the part when paint explainer paint explaining about paint explaination

[@SamPendentTheThief]

I love paint thinner 😋@@plastican

[@JS-zr9qs]

Three or four of these had me rewinding and viewing from odd angles just to confirm they weren't manipulated to match the words. A delightful journey, this one.

[@togwass8050]

My eyes are in pain now

[@EEE-1409]

Yes

[@sstrick500]

My retinal cord and brain stem are mush.

[@sereapple]

Thank you Paint Explainer for being a robot who draws and who explained all illusions to me in such a short timeframe!

[@renzoraschioni3886]

Many channels with this style and type of content may have arisen, but yours stays as the one with the highest quality

[@CrabO2]

fr hes the best one among them

[@MakusinMeringue]

yeah, seems he found a gold mine.

[@user-ob8vm7re8g]

True this is a new age of youtube

[@trueberryless]

I love how Gestalt is pronounced ❤

[@donaldduck1547]

He didnt pronounce it 100% correct but close enough.

[@wawacat6568]

@@donaldduck1547yeah because he's not german. I don't expect you to pronounce some chinese word right the first time

[@none5020]

Damn bruh y'all both right chilll

[@donaldduck1547]

@@wawacat6568 i know, did i criticze it? props for him being so close to the real pronounciation

[@Punch_Card]

@@donaldduck1547 if you hear him closelt you'll realise that it's actually an AI voice

[@PaintMyMind]

for those who want to see the timestamp in comment section 0:00 Motion Aftereffect 0:18 Ames Room 0:39 Flashed Face Distortion Effect 0:51 Stepping Feet Illusion 1:03 Silencing Effect 1:21 Afterimage 1:39 Color Dove Illusion 1:53 Impossible Object 2:11 Hybrid Image 2:30 Ponzo Illusion 2:42 Poggendorff Illusion 2:53 Forced Perspective 3:05 Barberpole Illusion 3:15 Zolner Illusion 3:26 Café Wall Illusion 3:36 Wundt Illusion 3:48 Fraser Spiral 3:56 Vertical-horizontal Illusion 4:05 Crater Illusion 4:15 Kanisza Triangle 4:27 Kinetic Depth Effect 4:48 Rotating Snakes Effect 4:56 Ternus Illusion 5:07 Beta Movement 5:18 Phi Phenomenon 5:27 Lilac Chaser 5:47 Gravity Hill 5:55 Ebbinghaus Illusion 6:03 Stroboscopic Effect 6:21 Bezold Effect 6:33 Ehrenstein Illusion 6:40 Sander Illusion 6:55 Muller Lyer Effect 7:00 Hemrann Grid 7:07 Rubin's Vase 7:21 Contrast Illusion 7:50 Mach Bands 8:00 Leaning Tower Illusion 8:07 Hollow Face 8:17 Color Constancy

[@4Evermusic]

Cheers man

[@user-dx1qv4yz5i]

Yo some of them aren't working for me, are my eyes broken

[@bpop2148]

@@user-dx1qv4yz5iwhich ones?

[@rya12i]

times stamps are in the description

[@tendingsbrother7057]

Legend 👍

[@LazyDarwin]

My whole life is an illusion

[@thereal4815]

God loves you

[@imjonathan6745]

@@thereal4815 now that is an illusion. its either he doesn't care or doesn't exist! or maybe just maybe we are already in hell we just didn't realised! either way something is fvcked up.

[@ultimaxkom8728]

@@thereal4815 Then that would be twisted love. But who would've thought that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely?

[@sonic176yt7]

​@@thereal4815don't be spreading your religion around here

[@bnane42]

3:19, that example is bad, since if you look at it frame by frame, you can notice that the lines aren't even in the same spots. Still good video

[@Ny-co]

GET UP MOM THE PAINT EXPLAINER HAS DROPPED A NEW VIDEO🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@daggerclick-ps4cc]

slowly becoming one of my fav channels, although some are irrelevant its quite fun to learn

[@DerangedScout]

Growing up during the haydays of KZbin has trained me not to trust optical illusion videos, lest I fancy needing a new pair of pants from a screamer.

[@iatzezesoap9847]

who else got jumpscared by Jesus

[@nimffus.]

I was happy that I saw jesus

[@patoflamejantetv_ofc]

​@@nimffus.Me too lol

[@JordanPierre-Louis]

When does it happen.. -Miles morales

[@Furry_One]

broo it qas for a split second and oh god it scared me it was almost likie analog horror stuff jeez

[@taha.z2012]

I saw amogus only

[@agniusbaltaitis5615]

6:26 no? it doesnt even look any different..

[@MM19247]

thanks for finally providing only illusions that actually work, you're the first person that only shows working illusions.

[@geffbob8960]

Thank you so much The Paint Explainer, I feel sick and I have a headache after watching this video but it was one of the most interesting videos I've seen in a long time

[@ExplainedOnPaint]

Can we just appreciate how the Paint Explainer never fails to drop fire content

[@hkayakh]

I love the way you colored each type of illusion

[@LazyNepNep]

5:08 Oh it's not a clip of me walking down the street, thank goodness.

[@infamous7223]

I can feel the paint explorer coming inside of me

[@NachitenRemix]

Wtf

[@coolballer42]

i couldnt edge to the paint explorer, i exploded immediately!!!

[@h1lw]

I'm gonna use a comically huge magnet to attract an asteroid directly to your location.

[@jtgd]

👀

[@bantyrFish]

dawg why

[@Tetraverse]

5:28 WAS SO TRIPPY HOLY HELL

[@Mr.Mog1022]

I KNOW RIGHT NEW RESPONSE JUST DROPPED

[@kolbai2392]

I have seen this type on imagePaint explainer channel before 😂

[@xislomega242]

I finally found a reliable way to alternate between the two rotation directions of the dancer in the Kinetic Depth Effect. Focus only on the trajectory of the foot she is standing on. Imagine her knee is swaying left and right. When the knee is about to reach it's left-most position, look at the image as a whole. You should see her rotating clockwise (from above). A less reliable method is closing your eyes and imagining the dancer spinning in either direction and opening your eyes when her legs overlap. This is obviously hard to do because your are blocking the only sensory input provided with this illusion by closing your eyes. You rely on your sense of time.

[@pro-zp6cq]

WAIT WHAT THAT ACTUALLY WORKS WOW

[@asmo1313]

0:17 Woohoo that was awesome

[@nothing-wo2sz]

I just watched 10 videos of this guy, all are such a good timepass love it you earned a sub!

[@razorblade6746]

Out of all the videos explaining stuff, this is the most interesting one

[@chimbudu]

Amazing. Really enjoyed this

[@mariosonicfan2010]

the lilac chaser one was so vivid i genuinely thought you had edited it for demonstration, but then i rewound and realized it really is just an illusion.

[@lisachiappetti6092]

You're talking about the green dot, huh? It is crazy how it can be so incredibly vivid lol

[@user-yh3td1gg1q]

Your version of the illusions are being less effective, and I can't make of it and the reason why.

[@letsgo529]

idk why but as a beginner amateur artist idk its because of the tutorials or just perspective studies I didn't get "fooled" by the poggendorf illusion and the ponzo illusion(and a few others). Im fairly sure artists actually doing a "poggendorf illusion" during lineart is something that some guides suggest avoiding so yeah. Or its just an outlier thats not based on anything

[@Leonardo-vh4by]

this was amazing

[@iBridgee]

In just 8 minutes, my perception of reality was shattered. Mind-blown.

[@alegendsock2581]

instructions unclear, I am now an illusion

[@Userdaniel829]

ok

[@FalseRadiation]

I really thought this channel would run out of idea but you failed to disappoint

[@AnimeFridays]

never failed to disappoint*

[@theominouspigeon]

​@@AnimeFridays what?

[@brackencloud]

Its interesting how some of these have different effects on some people. knowing more about them, or other thimgs ,may have effects. ones that stood out for me was the 'Mach bands' I found the colors more different BEFORE they touched. however, im well aware and have experienced the effect in some eye tests. in the color constancy, the only color outside of red/black/white was the blue water (and the mountain's lower part also looked blue)

[@MarinaMurua]

7:43 THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY I CAN'T- HOW ARE THOSE THE SAME COLOR???'1?

[@alex_dapro4923]

They add white to the ones on the top to make it seem like it is white, just with a shadow

[@Disblee]

eloojin

[@elliotgaming2148]

4:03 Paint man is such a mischievous and devious little boi!! We’ve all been tricked. 😊😊😊

[@BuckForeman]

Aight, that was cool. Now my eyes just need to rest for the next century or two

[@miser2570]

This is actually the closest thing to explaining paint this channel has done

[@YTCat123]

The lilac chaser works so well for me and I am obsessed with it

[@Zewind]

Optical illusions have always been so fascinating to me

[@zeroblue720]

A video about optical illusions soon after a video about different kinds of torture. I see what you're doing. You ain't slick. lmao

[@ultimaxkom8728]

That's actually slick.

[@OperaE-ne4vm]

Ive seen you all over tiktok but i could never find you until now... imma be watching ur channel 24/7 now

[@drewelement27]

You had my interest, but now you have my attention...

[@presidualist4587]

Bro keep making videos please dont stop any time soon i want to learn

[@markes7cc]

Can you make the alignment chart explained? (Lawful good, Neutral good, Chaotic Evil, etc)

[@zecuse]

2:14 This is much more prominent if you're near sighted like myself. Just stand up, walk a few feet back, and flip your glasses on and off to watch the face change! Alternatively, if you have good enough peripheral vision, put a finger in front of your face to focus on it to get the same effect.

[@velociraptorhijinks7279]

The video: This image will make things around you look like their breathing Me with AIWS: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power

[@spookyghost1688]

Request: Could you explain how different paints are created? Also: This was amazing! TY!

[@oofiooof]

the last one in flashed face distortion effect was terrifying on the left

[@kid_doonski]

These vids are BUTTERS! keep up the good work 💪

[@ivamanral989]

Lilac disc is the coolest omg

[@Crimit]

The greatest illusion is that this channel actually uses AI voice over and nobody seems to notice 😂

[@user-tt2eh8nr8x]

Wait what

[@NynnaOnYT]

NAH

[@David280GG]

I miss loquendo

[@justme_aleksandra]

Omg i didn't even realise, ai is getting too powerful

[@proja764]

4:15 Its like I can see the outline of the non-existante bright triangle before it was shown, that's insane!

[@kiefrichards]

flashed face distortion effect is actually the basis for the episode "real sleep" from the series local58, and if you follow the instructions on screen during that segment it will actually make people unrecognizable in your dreams for a bit.

[@Whynot690]

There's also "The Girlfriend Illusion" which seems to happen often in my dreams 😢

[@gabrieltiongco]

Earliest I’ve been to one of these, great video!

[@HandleOnYoutube]

6:37 did anyone else see it spin?

[@underwood9584]

Im so grateful this new channel exists

[@4ether635]

Flashed face distortion effect mainly happens as the images on two eyes being different and while focusing on the cross , due the blind spot in eyes , our brain can't reform the images from two eyes and thus they look deformed. I don't remember where I read it but it was in a biology book when I studied in school.

[@TheMagnumDon]

I think the vertical-horizontal illusion happens between we instinctually assume the vertical line is overlapping the horizontal one instead of being ontop Making us believe the vertical one is the width of the horizontal one taller

[@suvannath1631]

5:38 I saw both somehow they overlapped as if the green was a shadow

[@JezElectro13]

This video was pretty fun :)

[@gaerekxenos]

Some effects happen because we have two eyes. One eye is enough for somewhat 2D visual information, but you need two eyes to see two different angles that are combined to form one composite 3D image. So the expectation for the "Flashed Face Distortion Effect" would be that it has something to do with going "cross-eyed" or similar to a minor degree, or that's how I would explain it. The "Magic Eye" illusions are a great example of this type of stuff (and I can never get them to work because I process visual information extremely flat)

[@zovalentine7305]

Fascinating ❗

[@darrennew8211]

My cat would pounce on the serpent circles if I printed it out and left the paper on the floor. She's also sit in the middle of the Kanisa triangle if you make something similar. Just draw four corners of a square, and the cat goes "Box!"

[@J0r]

How could you have omitted the Moiré pattern effect?

[@subsandwichwithmayo469]

Up coming big channel. I just really hope you start branching out your content WHILE making this stuff, very intriguing.

[@Jazehiah]

Color constancy is how I explain to people how colorblind people can know what color things are. The brain fills in the gaps once you "know" what is supposed to be there.

[@bluepolar4565]

With the Cafe Wall one, move your device around (I’m using a phone) and the tiles seem to slide around

[@AA-100]

I got myself hypnotised by the illusions shown in this video

[@alexmacdonald4624]

this is an awesome video suggestion: you give a few more seconds to each and attempt to explain the effect in more detail. some illusions pique interest and a need for research that this video should provide if it truly wants to educate

[@meganekk0]

it took me so long to figure out the sander illusion, i even held up a ruler to my screen to make sure there wasnt any trickery. the reason it works is because the diagonal in the smaller parallelogram connects the corners that are farther away from each other, while the bigger one connects the corners that are closer together. i dont see anything to do with an "illusion of depth"

[@benatlas6587]

No clue if "Quick2Get" here on youtube is trying to copy your style, given the fact they are using the same thumbnail, formal and even channel description as you, or it's just a coincidence...I did check, your first available video was 3 months ago, while theirs is 2 months ago. Aside from that, great video!

[@YosheMC]

check out the paint guy lol

[@SuperS0ul]

Pretty sure these channels are just mass produced by a company, thankfully they're not too terrible.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

When I was a kid growing up in Florida, I used to experience the after image one a lot upon stepping inside. I would be practically blinded because most of my vision would turn purple/blue.

[@specygamer30]

i dont get the pitcure you used on bezold effect

[@wind7459]

appreciate the videos

[@BrendanWoolwine]

The checker shadow illusion is the strongest one for me. I get they’re the same color but unlike the others I can’t FORCE myself to see it even after understanding it

[@AroP16]

I love your videos! You should do astrology, like explain all the zodiacs.

[@thighhighsenpaioof7423]

Some of these didn’t work in me but the spinning doll one is insane!

[@DemonBakon]

when viewing the cafe wall illusion in full screen the image was clearly parralel but when i went to seek backwards outside of full screen it was clearly not until the coulers were changed

[@TsarIsBack]

When will Ideologies Explained III come out?

[@peexun]

why does some of the illusions like the bezold effect dont work for me?

[@flyingsodwai1382]

4:47 ummm Im making all my walls this.

[@sugoish9461]

5:10 This trick caused me way too much misery when I had to recreate Snake in programming class omfg. I can't believe it took me so long to realize you just have to move the last part first.

[@FurryNonsense]

None of these illusions work on me because I've learned not to fall for them

[@mellertid]

Why?

[@zyehboi5835]

wow ur so quirky

[@CrystalCatGacha]

I would be interested to see what you'd do for stellar object/phenomenons.

[@GoldenNoKami]

HUH, this will actually help my drawing skills

[@Jo-ew7lw]

i am deeply concerned for the person who said the paint explorer is coming inside them

[@imrantube747]

0:39 This one was used in Local 58's "Real Sleep".

[@Why_Blue]

The spinning dancer immediately triggered my fight or flight response

[@GAME_0VER-AKA-DEATH]

Man I get to see trippy things on my birthday

[@JordanPierre-Louis]

I love this thanks

[@dinoeebastian]

it's interesting seeing which of these illusions work on me and which don't

[@AmiriHipHop]

The EASIEST way to find the illusion with the Kinetic Depth effect is to use your arrow key to fast forward/rewind the video as the woman is spinning. At some point, due to all of the rapid chances of you forwarding and going back, you will see her start to spin in the opposite direction.

[@LeAzzure]

The Paint Explainer: You guessed the vertical line was longer in 4:00 Me: The horizontal line is longer

[@jaimegonzalezjr2169]

For the dancer one, I just see it moving in one direction (also the footage seems to bug out a bit) in which is moving left to right.

[@EmirGD8]

The Lilac Chaser is by far the most impressive.