Optical illusions of the year

[sTeamTraen]

S'worse than that!
When I first scrolled down to that picture, for a full second or so, I imagine because there are no eyes showing and my mind was trying to make it into a face, I saw just a monstrous chin with a tiny mouth between the hat and the rest of her body like some sort of Mrs Potatohead. Her collar bone marked the base of the chin, her neck was the flat front and her mouth the same as in the picture.

Yes - I got it too!! Like a giant fleshy potato head for about 4-5 seconds. But now, no matter what I try I can't get it back.

Oh god. I didn't see that at first, but now I can't unsee it. Want to swap eyes/visual processing systems?

[jimbob]

I can see how this works with the differenc coloured curved lines in the squares that would be spotted by our peripheral vision but it's still good

https://www.reddit.com/r/illusionporn/c ... _straight/

[plodder]

This is fantastic

https://mobile.twitter.com/DannyDutch/s ... 1537991681

[IvanV]

This is fantastic

https://mobile.twitter.com/DannyDutch/s ... 1537991681

When enlarged, it looks like just what it is. When small, it works because the grids are small. It is similar to the deliberate methods once used for low quality colour printing, as in comics, and as famously enlarged as artworks by Roy Lichtenstein.

[tenchboy]

Add note: I have only ever once seen the craters on the moon (in pictures of the moon); my mind always shows them to me as raised pimples: maybe there is a connection.

As here for instance (2nd pic) I see that footprint as a bump, as if it's coming through from the other side or a plaster cast of the original.

[tenchboy]

Another Example: a pin dish but I see that as a painted pebble - a convex surface rather than a dish, a painted version of the plain white underside in picture 4.
And so when, as a child we watched the moon landings I never saw craters, I saw pimples.

Screen shot added cos ebay links don't last for ever.

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(And also in case you just can't be arsed to click on the link)

[Gfamily]

Another Example: a pin dish but I see that as a painted pebble - a convex surface rather than a dish, a painted version of the plain white underside in picture 4.
And so when, as a child we watched the moon landings I never saw craters, I saw pimples.

Screen shot added cos ebay links don't last for ever.
Pish.png
(And also in case you just can't be arsed to click on the link)

Isn't that a dome shaped painted lid that sits on top of the plain white dish?
ETA - the description includes a comment about a worn area in the gold rim of the lid

[tenchboy]

Another Example: a pin dish but I see that as a painted pebble - a convex surface rather than a dish, a painted version of the plain white underside in picture 4.
And so when, as a child we watched the moon landings I never saw craters, I saw pimples.

Screen shot added cos ebay links don't last for ever.
Pish.png
(And also in case you just can't be arsed to click on the link)

Isn't that a dome shaped painted lid that sits on top of the plain white dish?
ETA - the description includes a comment about a worn area in the gold rim of the lid

Ha Brilliant! I didn't notice that.
But if it had a been a dish... [capo]

[Grumble]

Another Example: a pin dish but I see that as a painted pebble - a convex surface rather than a dish, a painted version of the plain white underside in picture 4.
And so when, as a child we watched the moon landings I never saw craters, I saw pimples.

Screen shot added cos ebay links don't last for ever.
Pish.png
(And also in case you just can't be arsed to click on the link)

Isn't that a dome shaped painted lid that sits on top of the plain white dish?
ETA - the description includes a comment about a worn area in the gold rim of the lid

Ha Brilliant! I didn't notice that.
But if it had a been a dish... [capo]

If it was a dish you would be able to see the whole rim

[Trinucleus]

Isn't that a dome shaped painted lid that sits on top of the plain white dish?
ETA - the description includes a comment about a worn area in the gold rim of the lid

Ha Brilliant! I didn't notice that.
But if it had a been a dish... [capo]

If it was a dish you would be able to see the whole rim

In paleontology there's a protocol that you always light a specimen from the same direction (NW I think) so you can work out what's convex and which concave