Believe It or Not, This Is an Illusion: The Most Mind-Blowing Thing You'll See All Day

An artist going by "Brusspup" on Facebook and YouTube has released a video so epic it has more than 2.7 million hits within one day of posting.

We can't even go any further without giving you a glimpse of what the hype is all about in the video. Here are a couple screenshots.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Yeah. This is a flat piece of paper. So how is it that the Rubiks cube, well, cube-shaped at one moment and stretched when the page is twisted? It's called an anamorphic illusion.

Watch Brusspup's full video to see his other mind-blowing illusions of a roll of tape and a canvas shoe:

Peta Pixel explained that Brusspup "photographed a few random objects resting on a piece of paper (e.g. a Rubiks cube, a roll of tape, and a shoe), skewed them, printed them out as high-resolution prints, and then photographed them at an angle to make the prints look just like the original objects."

He so kindly provided high-resolution files of these images so you can try it out yourself too. Here are the files for shoe, painter's tape and Rubiks cube.

In a post earlier this year about anamorphosis, io9 wrote that it originated as a painting technique. The illusion is one that allows the image appear in the appropriate perspective when viewed from one angle -- all other angles look distorted. Check out io9's full article for a more comprehensive read on the technique and its history.

(H/T: Buzzfeed)