The Illusion of the Year competition has announced its winner . The rivalry , lionize mentality - bendingvisualandaudioillusions , crown an illusion of a LEGO car appearing to fall through a solid LEGO wall as its champion .
Second place went to a seemingly - ordinary tug of cubes and an actually ordinary pencil .
Third place in the contest , consort by theMuseum of Illusions , die to " Cornelia " . In the unveiling , artist Wendy van Boxtel utilized an one-time deception to freaky effect .
" After discovering hollow typeface illusion , I was haunt to create an inner out carving where the face and pilus step by step emerges into the painting this to make a usance fantasy that make people stare . I experiment with many stuff , colour and depth , after lots of attempts I get hold a method acting that worked , " van Boxtelwrote , adding that it might not work on everyone .
" You might think it would trick everyone ’s eye BUT not exactly , " she state . " hoi polloi who have schizophrenia have a disconnect from what the eyes see and from what the brain is thinking and are not open to see the fancy . "
In a 2009study , psychologist found that volunteers with schizophrenia were overwhelmingly able to determine if a face was hollow or whether it was a normal face , while control participants could not .
" The term ' schizophrenia ' was coin almost a 100 ago to mean the splitting of unlike genial domains , but the idea has now shift more towards connectivity between brain area , " Danai Dima of the Hannover Medical School tell in apress releaseat the prison term .
" The prevail possibility is that percept in the main be three portion : first , centripetal input signal ( bottom - up ) ; secondly , the internal production of concept ( top - down ) ; and third , a control ( a ' censor ' component ) , which covers fundamental interaction between the two first components . Our field render further evidence of ' dysconnectivity ' between these component in the brains of people with schizophrenia . "
Several other entries focused on non - ocular illusions , admit an phantasy that makes it sound like music is accelerating when it is n’t , and an illusion you could do in person with an earlobe and a balloon .
However the overall winner went to LEGO - based illusion " Platform 9 and 3/4 " , which sees a LEGO car seemingly barge in through a solid LEGO wall .
Of of course it is n’t break out the natural law of purgative , but was down to a well - disguised hole .
