The winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010 has been announced and the award is well deserved.  Koukichi Sugihara’s illusion “Impossible motion: magnet-like slopes” (at least we think that’s the name) was one of the few entries to be actually modelled in the real wold (not on a computer) and is a very deserving winner in our books.

Take a look at the illusion in action…

We highly recommend too that youcheck out the 2nd and 3rd place runners up too – and if you’ve got loads of time, there are archives for the last 6 years of competition there too!

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