WHAT A TRIP! optical Illusion

[LaRue Medlin]

Really strange!!



Don't ask me how or why it works but it does....fascinating.

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If you watch the above images from your seat in front of the computer,

Mr.Angry is on the left, and Mrs.Calm is on the right.

Get up from your seat, and move back about eight - ten feet!! They switch places!!

I believe this illusion was created by Phillippe G. Schyns and Aude Oliva of the

Univ. of Glasgow .



This proves that we may not be seeing what's actually there, all the time!!



I do not know how they generated this fascinating image, and I believe no-one else is able to generate anything similar in Photoshop. I know it has something to do with "low-pass" and "high-pass" filters, but the details??

 

[Andrew Tollison 3]

That is cool. I could notice change while sitting in a computer chair and slidding back about 10 feet.

 

[JK II]

:wacko:..



Very neat.

 

[Todd Z]

That is cool. I could notice change while sitting in a computer chair and slidding back about 10 feet.

I tried that, Rolled of the chair pad, Hit the plush carpet and wound up about 15 feet from the computer on the other side of the room on the floor with my chair looking at me.... :lol::lol:



Todd Z

 

[Rodger Tellefson]

Todd Z, Did anyone get it on video? Sorry, but that must have hit all your funny bones. :lol:

 

[Ben Poche]

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Chet 02]

That is pretty wild. (The optical illusion...not Todd's chair trick, but that would be pretty entertaining too... )

 

[Dre L]

I have an apartment in Manhattan, I don't have 8 feet to move back.

 

[Chops]

At 6 feet they both look evil..

 

[Tim Turner]

I have an apartment in Manhattan, I don't have 8 feet to move back.

Haha, I was about to say the same thing. The room in my apartment where the computer is has about 6 feet of room to go back, but I can get the jist of it from that distance.

 

[Richard L]

I can see the change by only moving back about 3 feet, but I'm on my laptop with a small 12" screen so the blurring effect happens closer.



It's kind of like a hologram that changes when you move off angle.



...Rich

 

[Mike Wilson]

It has to do with "Mind Control" and the depth of the pixels, as I have said all along!!!

:wacko::wacko::wacko:

 

[yankeegator]

If you stare at it long enough, the guy on the left starts mouthing the words "Paul is dead..."

 

[TomT]

You can do the same with this site. Step back 27 feet and it turns into an Avalance site.

 

[EddieS'04]

Wont work on my Dell laptop with the, tft type screen...

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Fast Eddie...try sitting about 3 feet away and focus on the line between the two images...the key is to focus your eyes on the line and look at the line for about 2 minutes. Then sit back about 6 feet and look at both faces at once.



Does that help?



TJR

 

[Bill V]

This isn't a "cross your eyes" type thing, and screen type really shouldn't matter, so long as the screen can actually be viewed both from up close and longer distances. It has more to do with the shadows that appear on both pictures, and how your mind interprets those shadows.



Actually, a large part of the effect can be seen without moving back from the screen at all--just squint your eyes.