optical illusion

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:50 am

The more you watch, the more freaky and distorted the faces appear.

Except for Tom Cruise.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:51 am

Wow, that is freaky.

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:10 am

Tom Cruise is a "Clear". All his Thetans have been exorcised, so it doesn't work for him.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:35 pm

photoshop = optical illusion?

WildCat · Post by **WildCat** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:05 pm

Anaxagoras wrote:Wow, that is freaky.

But not an optical illusion. Just plain photoshop.

DrMatt · Post by **DrMatt** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 6:10 pm

Peripheral vision=ability to note that a lot of celebrities have freaky faces....
direct vision: too used to them to notice.

no one in particular · Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:02 am

WildCat wrote:
Anaxagoras wrote:Wow, that is freaky.
But not an optical illusion. Just plain photoshop.

Incorrect. Read the instructions and try again.

clarsct · Post by **clarsct** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:09 am

i noticed that the eyes appeared larger...perhaps it's our brain's focus on eyes?

Strange

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:02 am

I keep thinking that I see old Michael Jackson in those pictures, but he don't even appear once.

The optical illusion makes it appear that hall of the celebrities have had horribly disfiguring plastic surgery.....well, even more so than currently.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:32 am

honestly, i don't get what it is i'm supposed to notice other than some of the images are photoshopped to be very distorted.

WildCat · Post by **WildCat** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:45 am

no one in particular wrote:
WildCat wrote:
Anaxagoras wrote:Wow, that is freaky.
But not an optical illusion. Just plain photoshop.
Incorrect. Read the instructions and try again.

That's smoke and mirrors. Cover up one and look at the other, you'll see some of the pics are distorted with photoshop.

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:53 am

It works for me so long as I keep staring at the cross; move my eyes away for an instant and all I see are slightly distorted photoshop images.

WildCat · Post by **WildCat** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:09 am

Actually now I don't think they're photoshopped, it is an illusion.

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:11 am

I think it's shopped in so far as the eyes are all in very much the same position in each pair of pics. That seems to be what people look at first and is probably what fools the brain.

But I'm drunk as a skunk.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:28 am

It's called the Flashed Face Distortion Effect and from the sounds of it, it happens because the brain is trying to quickly figure the difference between one face and the next so ends up exagerating each face.

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:30 am

Smartass.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:31 am

asthmatic camel wrote:Smartass.

I live to serve.

WildCat · Post by **WildCat** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:01 am

Nyarlathotep wrote:
asthmatic camel wrote:Smartass.

I live to serve.

Make me a sandwich.

gnome · Post by **gnome** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:17 pm

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:02 pm

WildCat wrote:Actually now I don't think they're photoshopped, it is an illusion.

Even if there is some photoshop going on there, what I was seeing was totally surreal. If you follow the instructions and watch the center cross the faces become like Salvador Dali paintings or weird cartoon caricatures.

Our brains (or at least my brain) just doesn't have quite enough time to process each face before it changes to the next one, which creates a weird effect where the faces don't look real.

WildCat · Post by **WildCat** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:55 pm

Anaxagoras wrote:
WildCat wrote:Actually now I don't think they're photoshopped, it is an illusion.
Even if there is some photoshop going on there, what I was seeing was totally surreal. If you follow the instructions and watch the center cross the faces become like Salvador Dali paintings or weird cartoon caricatures.

Our brains (or at least my brain) just doesn't have quite enough time to process each face before it changes to the next one, which creates a weird effect where the faces don't look real.

I was making screen caps of the images I thought were photoshopped, but the screen caps loooked normal.

It is a weird phenomena.

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:15 am

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Apr 12, 2014 12:55 am

Nyarlathotep wrote:It's called the Flashed Face Distortion Effect and from the sounds of it, it happens because the brain is trying to quickly figure the difference between one face and the next so ends up exagerating each face.

As suggested on Nyarl's link, the effect persists even if you hide one of the two faces (but still center your gaze on the cross). One of the comments was "overclocking the visual cortex"!

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:18 am

How many black dots do you count?

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:05 am

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:08 am

Yep. Kinda confusing though because when you look at one the others seem to disappear.

asthmatic camel · Post by **asthmatic camel** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 7:05 pm

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:32 pm

I did her

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:50 pm

Did she show pleasant enthusiasm as you boinked her?

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:10 am

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:34 am

Best new one I've seen in a long time.

Can be spinning left or right.

Once your brain locks onto one direction, it's really hard to switch to the other. Try closing your left eye and right eye back and forth. You'll eventually see both.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:58 pm

Wow, just wow

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:02 pm

gnome · Post by **gnome** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:24 pm

I wonder if a person would look odd walking past that area, because our brain is using the floor for visual cues on relative size and distance.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:12 pm

OK, technically not an illusion but interesting

gnome wrote:I wonder if a person would look odd walking past that area, because our brain is using the floor for visual cues on relative size and distance.

It might, but I'm not sure if that's what it was designed for.

This one however is:

ed · Post by ed » Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:18 pm

Anaxagoras wrote:OK, technically not an illusion but interesting

That was a fad sorta thing back in the 17th 18th century. The artist would paint the image using a mirror.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:25 pm

Are you trying to tell us that dried corn husks turn into frogs?

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Aug 28, 2018 12:18 am

Hide the middle part:

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:20 pm

There are only three different colours in this image.

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:43 pm

Most people see the left arm of the Y looking more green and the right arm looking more blue.

How about this one? This also only has three colours, not counting the single black pixel right at the centre.

The 'Y' version again, seeing as how we're on a new page