optical illusions - got a good one?

and not ashamed of it!!!!


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It took me a few to figure out why that might be dirty....:D

or actually, just keep hanging out in the lounge, I guess. :)

I can't post it here, but do a google image search on the phrase "the lamp is a lie" (in quotations).

I am not even gonna ask how you discovered that....:o

While I can't see everything, I've certainly seen a lot of things.

And I now truly understand the Nietzsche quote, "When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

There are some things you cannot see without being changed by them.

... like goatse. :P

I found the other poster and my computer stopped responding!! I had to force quit my browser.

Still, that's a pretty good optical illusion b/c they did it with lights, too - and it's upside down. okay, another one - this one not like that one.

Rock formation

It's quite lovely, although more than likely a photoshop. :)

quite a different... reaction to it, tho. :)

Photoshop can be used to make stuff from scratch too, so who knows... maybe it was a painting done entirely in photoshop. :P

:rofl: gotta get me one of those

that's your punishment. :)

maybe a bigger version helps with this one. I could only see the wife for a long time.

There simply aren't that many Escher prints to see. Nevertheless, M. C. Escher would have really liked that Simpson rendition. police

I only discovered the crackdown a couple of years ago when every Google hit was scrubbed, and some sites even had a message directing you to an 'offical site'. I think your photobucket is safe but don't try hawking Escher tee shirts. ;)

You have to get out of your seat and walk away from your computer. Look at it from about 10-15 feet away from the screen.

:)

You might find this information on eigenfaces intriguing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface

Thanks!

the explanation is interesting too.

n/t

how many faces do you see?



:hi:

but I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a few. :P

is the dog part of a face? I can't see it, if so. but I would assume it would be.

Squares A and B are the same shade of grey. Seriously - I didn't believe it either, but the photoshop eyedropper does not lie.

strange. didn't try my dropper on them, tho.

Here's what it looks like. Left line is from B, right line from A

I posted it here about two months ago.

Cropping the original:



Use your finger to block out the intervening squares.

n/t

the colors of the squares themselves are not. There's just no way.

look in the stripes

and I stared and stared... and as soon as I saw your hint.. there it was!

At first I was looking for the face or body of a tiger too.

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stare at the picture then move about 8 feet back

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Read these and say the name of the actual color you see, not the name of the color written out.

here's one i found:

I think that one is the best.

I'll just repeat it. Minus the last part since someone already posted it.


Two freaky optical illusions.

You might have seen these before, but they're good 'uns.

The first is the spinning lady silhouette illusion:

http://www.maniacworld.com/Spinning-Silhouette-Optical-Illusion.html

Click, and you see a woman spinning in silhouette. But in what direction? Most people see her spinning clockwise (if she were viewed from the top of her head). But can you make her spin the other way? It's frustrating at first, and then it just happens. Try looking away for a bit, at another part of your monitor, or look at the shadow beneath her (reading the text below helped me).

Here is one that reveals how important context plays in what we see

http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/02/what_illusions_tell_us_about_t.php

At the top are two, for lack of a better word, donuts. The center of the donuts appear to be flashing on and off in an alternating pattern. But if you remove the 'donut' and just leave the hole, you'll see something quite startling.

The original thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=7737114

the switching lights are amazing. - or rather, our perceptions of the same.

Outdoor real-world illusions.



It's not real! Just a sidewalk painting. Don't believe it? Here's another.



And how it looks in a different perspective.



From an artist named Julian Beever. Here's his site with a lot more:

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

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