Did no one bother to look at how they did it? sheesh.
If you look at the picture itself (not in that page, ask the browser to view the image alone), you will see that the picture is actually about twice as wide as it is in that page, and consists of alternating strips of both images.
So, when the browser shrinks the pic to fit it into half the width, it apparently takes every other vertical line. One chooses odd, the other even.
This would indicate that icab seems to be doing the most faithful rendering of the picture, since it shows some sort of hybrid. Or maybe it’s just picking lines more or less at random.
AOL–attempt 1: clearly a nose-licking cow, scroll down (where you can’t see the pic) and back up, and now it’s the elephant
attempt 2: same effect, opposite sequence
fun 3: scroll halfway down the pic (see bottom half, top half covered) and back up. half cow, half elephant.
IE5.0–elephant
TheNerd’s right. Like those billboards that change as you drive by.
Here is a link to the full-sized picture.
In Mac IE 5.0 I saw a mixed-together version of the cow and dead elephant, and two side-by-side mixed-together pictures on the Room in NY/Peter Sellers page.
In Mac IE 4.5 they were also mixed together, but in both cases, one of the two pictures seemed to be more dominant. I see the happy cow, enough that I can tell what it is, but not a very clear picture at all. On the other, it’s mostly the Room in NY picture, with a sort of ghost of Peter Sellers superimposed.
Interesting.
IE 5.0 has a zoom feature. Right click on any of the images under discussion. Pick “zoom in.” In all cases the interlaced pictures are revealed.
Where exactly is the zoom feature? I’ve never seen it. By the way, I just upgraded to IE 5.5.
I saw a frog lying on top of some animal, holding a knife in the air as if it’s about to kill it. I’m using AOL.
