2009 Top 10 finalists « Best Illusion of the Year Contest

2009 Top 10 finalists

Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2009	“Color dove illusion” by Yuval Barkan and Hedva Spitzer Tel-Aviv University, Israel	“Cubistic lands” by Sandro Bettella, Gianluca Campana, Clara Casco, and Sergio Roncato Università di Padova, Italy
“Contrast color induced by unconscious surround” by Haruaki Fukuda and Kazuhiro Ueda University of Tokyo, Japan	“Stereo vision produces new illusory contours!” by Davi Geiger and Hiroshi Ishikawa New York University and Nagoya City University, Japan	“Tilt illusion” by Siddharth Jain
“Another turn: a variant on the Shepard tabletop illusion” by Lydia Maniatis American University, USA	“The illusion of sex” by Richard Russell Harvard University, USA	“The break of the curveball” by Arthur Shapiro, Zhong-Lin Lu, Emily Knight, and Robert Ennis American University, University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, SUNY College of Optometry
“Tube illusion” by Lothar Spillmann, Joe Hardy, Peter Delahunt, Baingio Pinna, and John S. Werner UCD Medical Center, USA; University of Freiburg, Germany; PositScience, USA; University of Sassari, Italy	“Smooth pursuit motion suppression” by Peter Tse Dartmouth University, USA	Top 10 Finalists

	Impossible motion: magnet-like slopes
	The break of the curveball
	Mask of Love
	Coffer Illusion
	Perpetual Collisions
	Dynamic Luminance-Gradient Effect
	Swimmers, Eels and Other Gradient-Gradient Illusions
	Motion-Illusion Building Blocks
	Two sinusoids: 6 – 1 perceptions
	Smooth pursuit motion suppression
	Filling in the Afterimage after the Image
	Grouping by Contrast
	Healing Grid
	The illusion of sex
	Counter‐intuitive illusory contours