Hughes, a British artist, is responsible for "Superduperperspective," a painting showcased at the Birmingham Art Gallery, in England, that forces your eye to see depth inside a 2D image.
Look at it straight-on and you see three ordinary hallways. But move to the left or right and suddenly the hallways shift with you.
Okay, what?
In the optical illusion world, this kind of phenomenon is known as "reverspective," a term Hughes invented that refers to an object seeming far away but actually being in the foreground. You might know it best from the Dragon Illusion, in which a paper dragon's gaze follows you around the room.
The magic of reverspective is that it actually forces your eye to see perspective that isn't there. When angled lines converge on a vanishing point, we perceive depth. Hughes' work plays with the shape and size of flat images to make certain things appear farther away than others depending on where you stand.
Hence, the 3D illusion.
It's only once you step far enough to the side of the illusion that the explanation becomes clear.
Okay, we feel better now.
To see the illusion in full, check out the video below:
