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

Except for Tom Cruise.
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Wow, that is freaky. :couchpotato:
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Tom Cruise is a "Clear". All his Thetans have been exorcised, so it doesn't work for him.
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photoshop = optical illusion?
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Anaxagoras wrote:Wow, that is freaky. :couchpotato:
But not an optical illusion. Just plain photoshop.
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Peripheral vision=ability to note that a lot of celebrities have freaky faces....
direct vision: too used to them to notice.
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WildCat wrote:
Anaxagoras wrote:Wow, that is freaky. :couchpotato:
But not an optical illusion. Just plain photoshop.
Incorrect. Read the instructions and try again.
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i noticed that the eyes appeared larger...perhaps it's our brain's focus on eyes?

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

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The optical illusion makes it appear that hall of the celebrities have had horribly disfiguring plastic surgery.....well, even more so than currently.
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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.
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WildCat wrote:
Anaxagoras wrote:Wow, that is freaky. :couchpotato:
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.
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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.
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Actually now I don't think they're photoshopped, it is an illusion.
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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. :)
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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.
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Smartass.

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asthmatic camel wrote:Smartass.

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Nyarlathotep wrote:
asthmatic camel wrote:Smartass.

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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.
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