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An optical illusion created by MIT shows Marilyn Monroe from far away, but changes to Albert Einstein up close. The illusion offers clues as to how our brains process the details in images or scenes.
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The experiments suggest that our brains prioritize different details within an image or scene. If we see a picture only very briefly, we’re left with “low spatial resolution” information — the overall shape of what we saw. If we see that same picture for a slightly longer period of time, we’re able to pick up on finer details. The MIT team believes our brain processes low spatial resolution information first, before it moves on to details.
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Einstein or Marilyn? Optical Illusion hides two faces in one
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Oh, that sound of male ego. You travel halfway across the galaxy and
it's still the same song.
-- Eve McHuron, "Mudd's Women", stardate 1330.1
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Monday April 06 2015, @07:14PM
Oh boy! I really need new glasses; I could not see either... at first.
Though, very clever way to fool our brain. Just to remind us that 95+% of what we "see" is what we "think" we see.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 06 2015, @07:26PM
Cue inflammatory comment about politics and/or news.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by mucsdnop on Monday April 06 2015, @08:03PM
My vision is terrible and my prescription needs to be updated as well, but I was able to see them with relative ease. That said as a child I was fascinated with optical illusion books such as the Magic Eye books. I've always wondered about whether or not image books such as Magic Eye would train our eyes to see through these "illusions" or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2015, @08:28PM
I've seen this illusion many times, but for some reason, this time it gave me an instant headache and now one eye (my strong eye) is blurry. I hope this effect goes away soon, it's unnerving.
I don't understand why it's never done that before with this particular image; it's almost the same feeling I get from trying to do the Magic Eye pictures ("it's a sailboat!").