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This is pretty neat. If you look at this picture from about 15 feet away is looks exactly like Marilyn Monroe. Seriously, get out of your chair and step across the room or down the hall and look. Then walk towards your monitor and watch Marilyn change. I saw this picture in an article about optical illusions when I clicked on the Scientific American Partner Network.
 
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I didn't quite see Monroe, but I did see some twisted, hellish amalgamation of her and Einstein. That was quite creepy.
 
I had to go 25 to 30 feet away, but it was totally Monroe. My pupil diameter is 7 cm, that might have something to do with it (I'm a squid, BTW).
 
matthyaouw said:
I didn't quite see Monroe, but I did see some twisted, hellish amalgamation of her and Einstein. That was quite creepy.

go further away then, or squint a little bit. Once you are far enough away it won't be an amalgamation it will be a perfect Marilyn.
 
You don't have to move away, at least if you use Opera :wink: Just press -
 
Borek said:
You don't have to move away, at least if you use Opera :wink: Just press -
I had to zoom down to about 10% (using gimp). Funny.
 
dammit, I'm trying to get you up off your butts. quit resizing my picture and take a walk
 
tribdog said:
dammit, I'm trying to get you up off your butts. quit resizing my picture and take a walk
I did that too. But being a physicist, my house is very small.
 
yay, I went for my weekly sport event and actually walked. Amazing. Now could we agree on advising Evo to stay put and resize the picture?
 
Maybe someone can make an animated gif and post it here...? Ummm...I'm a little busy, at the moment. o:)
 
Should be enough if you almost close your eyes, so that the picture becomes blurry. You loose fine lines, but you still see shape.

That's an interesting case when two methods of picture analysis in your brain (one based on the shape and one based on the fine details) compete.
 
Borek said:
Should be enough if you almost close your eyes, so that the picture becomes blurry. You loose fine lines, but you still see shape.

That's an interesting case when two methods of picture analysis in your brain (one based on the shape and one based on the fine details) compete.

Might be the very basis of the song, "The Women, All Get Prettier At Closing Time".:rolleyes:
 
Borek said:
Should be enough if you almost close your eyes, so that the picture becomes blurry. You loose fine lines, but you still see shape.

That's an interesting case when two methods of picture analysis in your brain (one based on the shape and one based on the fine details) compete.
That's what I did, Borek. Squinting to lose detail worked well - I only have about 8' of space to move away from my monitor. Even better was CTRL- (I use Firefox) to shrink the display and a little squinting.
 
tribdog said:
go further away then, or squint a little bit. Once you are far enough away it won't be an amalgamation it will be a perfect Marilyn.

My house isn't that large! I've tried zooming out though. Pretty cool illusion.
 
No matter how far back I get, she still has a moustache.
 
Very nice!
So anyone already wrote a program to merge two pictures this way?
 
That is pretty good.

I squinted, and rubbed my eyes and let my blurred vision run riot with the water in my eyes - and viola it was either Marilyn Monroe or Gretchen Mol couldn't really tell the difference. No mustache, and the necktie vanished into a necklace. Albert never looked so good - to me anyway.

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/gretchen-mol-2005-vanity-fair-oscar-party-1jtxw3.jpg
 
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Evo said:
No matter how far back I get, she still has a moustache.

If you get far enough away (or shrink it enough) the moustache becomes her smile.
 
TheStatutoryApe said:
If you get far enough away (or shrink it enough) the moustache becomes her smile.
I see it is supposed to be a smile, but I can still tell it's a moustache, if I have my glasses on. I probably can go 20+ feet because it's backs into another room and a hallway. It's the only feature that stands out.
 
Evo said:
I see it is supposed to be a smile, but I can still tell it's a moustache, if I have my glasses on. I probably can go 20+ feet because it's backs into another room and a hallway. It's the only feature that stands out.

if I have my glasses on? sheesh. You could probably go 100 feet and see the moustache with a good pair of binoculars. The idea is to get far enough away that you can't see the moustache. Uncorrected eyesight should make it easier.
 
Wooo view attachment. Same picture zoomed out to about 8%.
 
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moose said:
Wooo view attachment. Same picture zoomed out to about 8%.
I found around the same scale where the effect becomes impressive (10% or so)
 
Evo said:
No matter how far back I get, she still has a moustache.

Ha! Totally..
 
That's not Marilyn with a moustache, that's http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4079000320/nm0000349" !
 
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tribdog said:
dammit, I'm trying to get you up off your butts. quit resizing my picture and take a walk

If I remove my glasses, I can roll my chair back about 3 feet to see Marilyn. My butt doesn't even flex one millimeter.
 
Redbelly98 said:
My butt doesn't even flex one millimeter.
Oh, I want to say something, but it would be totally inappropriate for a mentor. :biggrin: