http://www.ianrowland.com/MiscPages/Mrangryandmrscalm.html
Mr Angry & Mrs Calm trade places when you view them from a distance, or even if you just squint. Weird!
That is weird. Can anyone explain it in layman’s terms?
Wild.
Anastasaeon’s link in this thread has a fairly detailed explaination of how that works.
(Incidentally, know that the stuff in Electronic Chaos’s link lasts a long time. It’s been a week since I looked at it, and I’m still seeing some green on the test pattern!)
Cool.
But now I’m going to have nightmares involving Mr. Angry’s face.
When I followed Anastaseon’s link before I couldn’t get it to work, (using the “view from a distance” approach) but just squinting makes it work perfectly.
Definitely cool.
I don’t get it . The first face has the furrowed brow, even distance and/or squintig doesn’t change it. The second face only takes on the slight appearance of an “angry” mouth.
Basically, the dark areas on the faces correspond to our basic “read” of calm and angry faces; but the large photos have greater detail that override those light/dark areas–so you focus on the squinting eyes and gritting teeth and say, “ooh–angry!” But when you zoom out, those details can no longer be seen, so the dark areas become the dominant feature and you start to see Mr. Angry as looking calm, and vice versa.
See this link. http://www.ianrowland.com/MiscPages/Mrangryandmrscalm2.html
Look at the last 2 rows.