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Einstein or Marilyn? Optical Illusion hides two faces in one

posted by CoolHand on Monday April 06 2015, @07:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-freak-me-out-man dept.

tynin writes:

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.

Direct link to the video from the article.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday April 06 2015, @07:40PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday April 06 2015, @07:40PM (#167124) Homepage

    This was already years old when it was on QI.

    Interesting though, and pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop. Blur one image, Custom->High Pass the other, and Overlay one on top of the other.

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  • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Monday April 06 2015, @07:46PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Monday April 06 2015, @07:46PM (#167130)
    Elmer Fudd already solved that one.

    • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday April 06 2015, @07:56PM

      by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Monday April 06 2015, @07:56PM (#167135)

      The Fudd Institute's results were thrown out when it was found that their meaning of double-blind was "You shoot at the duck point-bwank six times and it's not dead."

  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday April 07 2015, @06:53AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Tuesday April 07 2015, @06:53AM (#167343)

    Yep...saw this a couple of weeks ago on National Geographic s channel "Brain Games".

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