The rotating snakes illusion is a motion illusion in which we perceive movement that isn't happening. Everything in the image above is static, and yet the overlapping round objects appear to swirl.

Another type of optical illusion is the motion illusion, where still images appear to move or change when viewed in a certain ...

Flashing two lights at certain rates of speed creates the illusion of a single light in motion. Experiments with the illusion assist in efforts to clarify the neural mechanisms of visual perception ...

creating the illusion of motion. It was called a zoetrope. In October 19, 1878, Scientific American published a series of pictures depicting a horse in full gallop, along with instructions to ...