Optical illusions
 

Einstein or Monroe?

...it mostly just looks like marylin with al's face to me.

dammit... i cant walk 15 feet away from my monitor!!!

There was a similar test were one face looked enraged and the other looked happy. I seem to remember Glatt having something to do with that post...

I remember that one too. Maybe I posted it.

This one doesn't work for me. My office is around 10 x 10, and the monitor isn't in the corner. If I squint though, it kinda works.

I had to walk out into the hall to see it.

I think you mean this one. You only need to get back 12 feet for Mr. Angry.

I got up and went for a wee in order to see it.

It sort of worked, but I was too far away to see it clearly!
Marilyn had the grinning mouth of a skull though.
But then she is a little bit dead after all.

That's it! It was you.

That would be way more illusory without the title.

linkie no workie

http://www.123opticalillusions.com/p...lyn-monroe.jpg

just squint.

ah yes. a hairy marylin

Bunny...meh.

Looks more like an angry gopher.

which way is he facing?

the t-shirt is positioned incorrectly on the shoulder for that to work properly. he's facing forward.

agreed, clearly forward facing... in fact when i first saw it, i was just wondering why they had erased part of him... then i saw a flash of the profile... my eye brain wants to see it face on... I have to work to see him sideways..

He's cut away part of the pic using his profile as a guide.

He's facing the camera.

If he's facing left, he's got a really funny Stray Cats haircut

Anamorphs!

giddap!

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hahahahahaha

You'll have seen a few of these before

http://i.imgur.com/utSl1.jpg

my favorite comment from imgur:

'you had me at bicycle penis'

I lolled.

Weird. Any explanation?

I think it's because all of the eyes are in the exact same spot. that and the speed of the changes....it makes your brain lag behind and try to see the face as the same.... so when the face shape is slightly different, it appears to stretch and bulge or squish instead of being seen as a brand new image.

but that's just my guess

Do not see effect. :(

Staring at cross in middle?

I'm about a foot and a half, +/-, from my monitor.

Everyone's face should look warped/wonky in your peripheral vision.

Weird, worked that time. Maybe I was too far away before.

a heterochromia iridum-iated ungulate

http://www.anopticalillusion.com/wp-...on-590x369.jpg
Straight and parallel

That's a good one. I had to open it in an image editor to measure the lines and see that they are level and plumb

god almighty
that one pushes the limits of believability
but you can hold a piece of paper up to the monitor and confirm!

For the season...

Wow, that's amazing.

Not everything is what it looks like to you, be careful judging diamonds... and people.

What is the border between the diamonds?

I don't think there is a border. I think each diamond is a gradient of gray shading, lighter at the bottom and darker at the top.

Ah! That makes sense. Very cool.

I don't see a gradient. I see solid gray.

Take a screen shot and use the eyedrop tool in photoshop to measure each diamond at the top and the bottom. You'll see.

I was waiting for Mr. Hand guy to rotate the diamond to give the trick away and blow our minds, but he never did.

What the hell. I'll do it. I selected the color at the top of each diamond and drew a little box to the side, and then I selected the color at the bottom of each diamond and drew a box at the side.

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FAKE NEWS
:rides away on a horse:

If there is a gradient, how does one diamond work in all three rows?

Would the gradient be different for each row?

Every single diamond is identical color wise.

I added a bit more to glatt's:

One diamond, copy flipped, with sample color bar from the top and bottom.