visual trickery
Eyes being fooled
Visual trickery is the use of images, lighting, perspective, or design to deceive the eye or create false impressions.
The term covers everything from optical illusions to stage magic to misleading photography: The narrow mirrors were visual trickery to make the room look bigger.
It implies deliberate manipulation rather than accidental confusion.
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- optical illusionMisleading visual perception
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- sleightDexterous trickery
- deceptionIntentional misleading of others
smoke and mirrors · distortion · hologram · camouflage · magic · dazzle · shimmer · smoke · mirrors · hall of mirrors · hallucination · phantasm · apparition · mind's eye · warp · bend · refraction · kaleidoscope
visual trickeryphotorealism
Art imitating camera accuracy
documentary footage · transparency · what you see is what you get · verisimilitude · candid photography
visual, visually, visibility, visible, visibly, invisible, invisibility, vision, visionary