Just curious if this effect has a name.
Is that an optical illusion or merely duplicating his mouth and eyes? I’ve seen the Thatcher Effect, but am not sure if this is what has been done in your picture.
AAAAAAAH!! Kill it! Kill it with fire!!!
Oh wait…it’s just a picture of Steve Buscemi…
AAAAAAAH!! Kill it! Kill it with fire!!!
I believe it’s called “Photoshop”.
Ditto. I don’t see any illusion.
I don’t know about you, but for me, I find it extremely difficult to focus on the picture. My eyes keep fluttering back and forth between the two faces and it’s kind of making me feel like I’m drunk. My eyes or brain are trying to force the picture into single vision.
That’s my take too. Something about the picture screws with my brain.
Me too. Its not an optical illusion per se, but it makes ma’ puzzler hurt looking at it! Human brains are hard-wired to recognize the human form, faces in particular, so anomalies like this make it hard to ‘render’ it, your mind keeps re-seeing it over & over.
I never knew that was called the ‘Thatcher effect’. I remember when it was first discovered. I think I saw it in the now defunct science mag Omni. I also saw it on Carson but he used a pic of Reagan (and others, maybe Thatcher).
That checkerboard & green cylinder illusion next to that paragraph totally blows my mind. When I first saw that a few years ago I was like, “What are they talking about? The two squares are different shades!” Liked it so much I made a T-shirt of it…
I was actually playing with that one the other day trying to convince someone that they were the identical, even photoshopping the image by removing everything except the two squares. Then I was accused of cheating. :smack: The funny thing is, my artist BIL saw it almost immediately.
That one isn’t that surprising to me–those shades look pretty similar to me, although I see that one is supposed to seen as lighter than the other, even though they’re the same exact color and shade. It’s this one that always gets me. The “blue” and “green” spirals are actually the same color.
I’m very disappointed in whoever created this. It might indeed work as described, but the actual graphic used is not an accurate rendering of the description. Whatever graphics program they are using has caused the one green spiral to be bordered by blue pixels. So it’s not surprising it looks blue. It is partially blue! I’d like to see if the effect works as well when rendered properly.
It looks like he has two mouths and four eyes. But in reality he has four mouths and eight eyes. That’s the illusion!
Well, the amount of color feathering there is enough to be negligible, in my opinion. It looks to me like it was an issue in downsizing the graphic (if you don’t use “Nearest Neighbor” interpolation you get color blending) or possibly the compression (I didn’t check what file format that image was in.)
Anyhow, the graphic below that one shows the effect pretty clearly, too, but here’s my chopped up version (sorry, I didn’t have time to create spirals).
It’s “rendered” just fine. There is no border of blue pixels; that’s your eyes playing tricks on you again. Zoom in to, say, 3200%. You’ll note that the blue “border” remains the same size despite all that zooming it; it’s because the border is created by your eye, not by whoever created the image.
No need to be “very disappointed.” You can now be “very impressed” or “suitably entertained.”
There is a small amount of anti-aliasing if you look at the first graphic at 100% in Photoshop. Like I said, it’s a negligible amount that doesn’t contribute at all to the illusion, so far as I could see, but you can click on my graphic for a completely true 3-color image.
The anti-aliasing might be resulting from Photoshop. I opened the image in Paint, and there doesn’t appear to be any anti-aliasing at all.
:smack:
You are indeed correct. I should have realized that. Opening it up in Preview and inspecting the first file on that page indicates that it is, indeed, comprised of exactly three colors with hard edges.
I am a double idiot. It does open up fine in Photoshop, showing only three colors. I must have accidentally resized it or something, because otherwise I can’t explain how I got aliasing when I first looked at it.
He’s kind of funny-lookin’.
More’n most people.