The Best Visual illusion of the Year Contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world’s premier visual illusion research community. Contestants from all around the world have submitted novel visual illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2009), and an international panel of judges has rated them and narrowed them to the TOP TEN. At the Contest Gala in the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, the top ten illusionists will present their creations and the attendees of the event (that means YOU!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!
The Top Three Winners of the 2009 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest were:
| 1st prize The break of the curveball Arthur Shapiro, Zhong-Lin Lu, Emily Knight, & Robert Ennis (American University, University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, SUNY College of Optometry, USA) |
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| 2nd prize Color dove illusion Yuval Barkan & Hedva Spitzer (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) |
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| 3rd prize The illusion of sex Richard Russel (Harvard University, USA) |
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Important information for VSS registrants:
Please note that the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest is an Official Satellite of the VSS meeting: submitting illusions to the Contest does not preclude you from abstract submission to the VSS meeting, or vice versa.