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Optical-Illusion
An optical illusion is a visually perceived image that is deceptive or misleading.
Do the straight horizontal gray lines look curvy to you? Hold up a piece of paper to prove that they are straight and parallel to each other.
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i think the question is supposed to be "do the horizontal lines look slanted?"
Well, "Slanted" is a better word than "curvy".......
slanted also works, but they were curvy to me to 
That trips me out a bit, the lines can be slatned, straight or curved, wierd.
its still awsome curved or slanted no matter witch one 
Good one , it made my eyes water, great... I really like these, very fun 
whoa that like made my eyes hurt
VERY trippy...which is why i like it
Well scroll up and down with the scroller on the mouse and it flicks UP and down
Good one, keep them coming jake i love these. 
if you stare at the middle the blocks move back and forth alittle.
Well to me they do.
Well to me they do.
These ones always get my eyes watering.
That was cool, nade me kind of dizzy though!!!
if you stare at the middle the blocks move back and forth alittle.
Well to me they do.
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THEY DO if you mave your head back - forth
Well to me they do.
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THEY DO if you mave your head back - forth
I thought these were supposed to challenge my mind. C'mon make me work a little. 
nice one
wicked
they look srtaight to me
Oct 22, 2005
Love optical illusions.
Keep em comin
Keep em comin
love optical illusions
Of course they LOOK bendy. But I know they aren't cause otherwise it wouldn't be listed as an optical-illusion.
By the way, NICE ONE!!!
By the way, NICE ONE!!!
I like it, these are always fun to look at.
good one
Yeah slanted is a much better word. I wondered why they didn't look "curvy" to me
um it is a very old optical illusion. so i rated it boring. i'm not usually mean but it was boring. sorry
yea i liked it. couldnt look other way
Hello:
That is very interesting. I really enjoyed it when I looked at it. I am going to add it to my favorites.
quack - quack
That is very interesting. I really enjoyed it when I looked at it. I am going to add it to my favorites.
quack - quack
say the lines r slanted but i think they look curvy 
it looks really blury
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feel the burn!
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feel the burn!
damn this is trippy stuff specially if ur high!
do most people that see this know the differance between Vertical and HORIZONTAL ?? 
st1sk8tr16, are U sure you look at this sober??
it didn't work for me but if you roll the roller thing on the mouse the black and white lines will move
That one makes me dizzy.
Ugh! I'm dizzy now...and seeing little black spots!!! Great illusion, though!!!
Someone, *please* make the lines stop chasing me!!!!!!!!!!
I swear, I won't throw little pickles at my neighbors ever again, just *make it stop*!!!!!!!!!!!!
(a most enjoyable optical illusion)
I swear, I won't throw little pickles at my neighbors ever again, just *make it stop*!!!!!!!!!!!!
(a most enjoyable optical illusion)
woo that one made me kinda dizzy and woozy, but was still fun
teacher showerd me
pickles???
ahh I could definatly see pickles chasing the neihbor after staring at this one a while!
Heh heh, yeah little pickles. One of my favourite movie lines has to do with Val Kilmer and little pickles... it's always stuck in my head, and seems to pop out at the wierdest moments!
Cool!! I want this as wallpaper...
I don't think they look like curvy
IT REMINDED ME OF AN EARTHWORM LOVEFEST I SAW ONCE ON DISCOVERY...BLINK!!!!
who we talking about again?
I like eggs
WOWZERS
and also, if u scroll up and down, the black and white lines appear 2 be moving-oh, wait, nvermind......they actually are.........oops 
i loved that one!! it was very good, i like these!!
it was very good, i like these!!
TRY THIS! If you stare into it long enough...the blocks start to move and sway
COOL!!
TOTALLY FREAKY!!!!
Ooo nice. Me likie!
no wi have headach
major headach. owww
lol. good though. keep'em coming braingler.lol
lol. good though. keep'em coming braingler.lol
tricky tricky tricky!!, Me eyes are playing game on me, Ihad to get the ol' ruler out just to make sure they were perfectly strait, scary thing is..they are!
Very cool...did anyone notice that if you slide the page up and down the black squares seem to move around?
i was wondering if there was something wrong with me because the lines didn't look curvy at all . i guess other people had issue with that . the lines did look slanted though !
Simply Awesome
omg i like this one alot!! but it gives me a headache.
wow that was fun... it made me dizzy though
Help the blocks are moving!!
Help the blocks are moving!!
These lines are straight??
NEVER!!
(ok i guess they are )
NEVER!!
(ok i guess they are
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i have dat as a display picture on messenger
Very strange...cool, but strange...
cool
They look off-balance to me. Not curvy though.
hurts my eyes
slanted, not curvy
slanted, not curvy
they look like they are dancing if if scroll down the page
i don't see it
they look srait if u look at each one but if u look at the whole picture then there stanted. But i dont see any curved lines!
i have seen this before but it's still rlly kool
I have been watching too many things this morning... Totally Awesome optical illusion!
Totally Awesome optical illusion!
Woooha.... Make the page go up and down while starting at it... (clickey wheel).... Awsome... Saw in my Geometry book
Cool I like that it appers move also
I don't understand why my eyes want to play tricks on me.Cool illusion though.
its straight!!lol if u move your cursor thingy up n down it looks like the lines are wavy.
I liked this illusion a lot. It is funny what just a little staggering of blocks can do to perfectly straight lines-a little philosophical, huh?
loved it!!!!!!!!
Jul 22, 2007
ZOMG my eyes are bbllurrry.
Whoa, that's awesome!
made me slightly nauseous
It was really fun!!
Know what looks really weird? If you look at it and scroll up and down! Haha! Cool!
Really nice
I love this one, it really screws with my eyes!
Move your eyes back and forth and it moves!
this is a favorite of mine. fun!
Scroll up and down. They seem to move!
They also seem slanted. (it;'s a slanted mouth.)
(it;'s a slanted mouth.)
they seemed straight to me!!
well they are straight and if u ppl out there will take a piece of paper it will be proved so take a chance and try it piece out
Shouldn't that be in the Optical illutions category?
It is,
Thats Fun
that was really weird
The gray lines look like they move. It looks pretty cool I think.
Aug 11, 2008
i can tell witout tha paper that it is strait ......lol
......lol
IT LOOKS PERFECTLY STRAIGHT
This one is weird but cool!
THiS WAS BORiNG BECAUSE iT iS ONE ALREADY LIKE THiS ABOVE iN THE FIRST ROW!
Nice? Yeah it's Nice!
I like this one a lot.
IT MADE ME DIZZY. I STARED AT IT 2 LONG
Mar 08, 2009
omg i love things like this LOL their so fun
Jul 20, 2009
technically, it isn't slanted or anything.
Simply, the "checkerboard"
isn't exactly formatted as it should.
The row under each other is simply
placed out of the order therefore
making it look slanted.
Simply, the "checkerboard"
isn't exactly formatted as it should.
The row under each other is simply
placed out of the order therefore
making it look slanted.
Cool!
weird!!
if you move page up and down,black lines will "dance"
Good job. Now, go to the first trivia ever made.
(This is for The Amazing Race)
(This is for The Amazing Race)
they looked straight
If you look at the side, or the ends of the lines, they are perfect.
I don't even need a ruler to tell these lines are straight. The lines are just at a certain angle that makes them look slanted or curved. Great illusion, Jake!
perfect one!
WOW!!! that was a tricky one but I used a chocolate bar instead for a piece of paper.LOL
all of u are awesome thank u for not cussing
all of u are awesome thank u for not cussing
This freaks my mind
Interestingly enough,
if you scroll the page up & down a bunch,
it appears that the lines are moving back & forth.
if you scroll the page up & down a bunch,
it appears that the lines are moving back & forth.
Amazing! (y)
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