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Each month, we will post new puzzling illusions to solve and/or to comtemplate: ambiguous and completion figures, impossible figures, hidden objects, illusions involving colors, geometric illusions, illusory moving patterns, verbal illusions and paradoxes.]]></description>  <LINK>http://archimedes-lab.org/page10b_optic.html</LINK>  <guid isPermaLink="true">http://archimedes-lab.org/page10b_optic.html</guid>  <pubDate>2009-10-30 11:33:38</pubDate> </item>   <item>  <title>Optical Illusion Gallery</title>  <description><![CDATA[A wide selection of NEW optical illusions and other visual perception oddities.]]></description>  <LINK>http://archimedes-lab.org/Gallery/new_optical_illusions.html</LINK>  <guid isPermaLink="true">http://archimedes-lab.org/Gallery/new_optical_illusions.html</guid>  <pubDate>2009-10-30 11:32:37</pubDate> </item>   <item>  <title>Macabre Optical Illusions</title>  <description><![CDATA[Paintings with a human skull as the centrepiece are known as ‘Vanitas paintings’. 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A "droodle" puzzle is a kind of minimal cartoon featuring rather abstract pictorial elements accompanied by an implicit question: "What is it?". Droodles are based on the 'pareidolia', an innate human tendency to impose a pattern on random or ambiguous shapes...]]></description>  <LINK>http://www.archimedes-lab.org/droodles.html</LINK>  <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.archimedes-lab.org/droodles.html</guid>  <pubDate>2009-10-30 04:40:38</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss>