This is freaky - a newly-discovered optical perception effect that makes pics of ordinary faces appear bizzare.
Weird!
Woah! Cool, thanks for sharing!
The top one was kinda weird, but that didn’t prepare me for the second (bottom) video – what a freaky ride that was!
WEIRD! The mysteries of human vision.
That’s weird - I found the first video to be more effective than the second.
What if someone’s face is already hideous and ogre like?
I’m not seeing it.
Then you need to make sure you only appear for very brief periods in public, between other people, and keep your eyes lined up with theirs. That way you have an excuse.
That’s awesome! The bottom set looked especially bizarre, but the top set looked just like Al Hirschfeld caricatures! And that totally makes sense:
…which is precisely what a good caricature does. Since the top set was famous people, perhaps they seemed more cartoonish and less grotesque to me because their features were still recognizable, even when exaggerated. It probably helped that they went a little slower, too. But those bottom folks, man! It was a carnival sideshow: pinheads, the Elephant Man, and Jo Jo the Dog Faced Boy. Yee-ikes!
I actually find it a little difficult, because of the natural tendancy to look directly at the faces. What you have to do is concentrate on only looking directly at the cross in the middle. You see the faces with your peripheral vision, and they look all distorted and bizzare - ogre-like.
The effect is more intense when there are two portraits, but if you cover up one of the portraits (and stare at the cross) the remaining one still suffers distortion.
That was really bizarre. I even kept my mouse on the pause button because I’d swear they were sneaking other things in there. Nope, all normal looking people.
Never heard of him, but looking that the images you provided, yup, the thing I noticed most in the first video is really high eye brows which is similar to the drawings in your link.
This doesn’t just happen on websites, it happen IRL too.
A few years ago I was talking to someone in a restaurant. A woman in my periferal vision was kind of overweight, had short curly blonde hair, and was wearing a sweater that she stole form Cliff Huxtable. She looked like an amiable but grotesque clown.