Optical Illusions is all about math and you will know by the time you finish reading this very short, but general status about optical illusions. Optical has a lot to do with math because when your brain is looking at something, you know exactly what it is. But when a professional tells you what the object actually is, you suddenly see it, your brain is doing all the math but it realizes it's messing up and looks at it more carefully.
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Optical illusions may fall under the applications of Geometry, Topology and Graph Theory.
Questions asked about optical illusions; 1: What are optical illusions? 2: What types of optical illusions are there? 3: What effects do optical illusions have on the brain 4: What causes optical illusions?
All mirages are optical illusions but all optical illusions are not mirages.
Like when you are driving down the road on a hot day and up ahead in the road it looks wet, but when you get there it's not. That's a Mirage or an optical illusion.An example of an optical illusion due to refraction is the formation of rainbow caused by action of water droplets as prism.
It is in your question already. An illusion will never be real. If it was real then it would be no illusion. Optical illusions are in a way real. They are real optical illusions. We can however not fake an illusion because the illusion is fake from start.