Show flats may contain small, fitted furniture to give an illusion of space, for example.

The image forms part of a project that plays with the illusion of space.

Colour palettes that are dominated by green give the illusion of space.

Open-plan design gives the illusion of space in a smallish home.

All explore the illusion of space and volume.

From time to time he would give them smaller sums of cash to maintain the illusion that he was delivering profits.

In an increasingly selfie-focused world it helps, however disingenuously, to maintain the illusion of considering others.

It will, however, take more than a skyline dotted with cranes and tower blocks to maintain the illusion.

To maintain the illusion of peace and prosperity, she increasingly relied on internal spies and propaganda.

Wooden dummies were mounted to maintain the illusion of a heavily armed ship.

I know that sounds a romantic illusion but it can be true.

We warm to him early on, for his gentle fantasy, his commitment to romantic illusion, his decency to others.

These late works are considered the most artful criticism of romantic illusion in her career.

They have the same energy, the same liking for hospitality, the same big romantic illusions, the same virtues and some of the same flaws.

The truth of a tragedy that happened decades before emerges to destroy the idealistic young man's romantic illusions.

It didn't take long to shatter that illusion.

While most sets are (sorry to shatter the illusion) much smaller in reality than they appear on-screen, the two-acre glamping grounds are sprawling.

Others, however, shatter the illusion just a bit by blending the medieval with the modern in their hiring search, as with this call for a car park steward.

But that needn't shatter the illusion.

Perhaps his next accomplishment will be shattering the illusion that international coaches have a shelf life at all.

To sustain the illusion, the nurses lie to you.

Part recital, part confessional, this was a beguiling, sometimes chatty display, which sustained the illusion that he was sharing his life history with a group of close friends.

Rather, with a good deal of skilful technique, she sustains the illusion of being sunk in a life.

It created a mirror image of the same arm in the place where the missing limb should have been, giving the visual illusion that it had been restored.

The trick was there was no movement, it was caused by a visual illusion known as the autokinetic effect.

The visual illusion community includes visual scientists, ophthalmologists, neurologists, and visual artists that use a variety of methods to help discover the neural underpinnings of visual illusory perception.

Their results showed an increased toe elevation in conditions where an illusion was perceived, leading them to conclude that there was a correlation between visual illusion and visuo-motor coordination.

All visual illusions rely on the fact that the brain constantly uses knowledge to add to and interpret what we can see.