Woah.

Wow. Just, wow.

Like a parade of The New Yorker cover pages.

Apos: Let's fact it?

Would you rather fiction it?

Nicole Kidman's forehead is HUGE!

Could somebody explain what I'm missing?


/ Prosopagnosia

Grimble Crumble: Could somebody explain what I'm missing?


/ Prosopagnosia

When focusing on the center +, the faces begin to look more like caricatures rather than actual photographs, the facial features look distorted.

Whoa. And I do mean whoa. That is very weird indeed.

You mean i need a plug-in?
...ah..i don't farking think so....


next.

"These faces have not been altered."

Well, no, not by the person who made the video...

AKA the kind of shiat we Psych majors dealt with on a daily basis.

/it was like 80% or more chicks, seriously

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/ Prosopagnosia

When focusing on the center +, the faces begin to look more like caricatures rather than actual photographs, the facial features look distorted.


Thanks. I understand now but still can't see it.

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I think you mean Flashed Face Distortion?

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Grimble Crumble: Prosopagnosia

I think you mean Flashed Face Distortion?

No, faces don't have any meaning to me; I can't recognize most people. Never have been able to. I can only recognize those I spend an hour or more with every day for at least five days a week.

I can tell my coworkers, and family members (mostly), but don't recognize any of my neighbors. Coworkers that used to work with me six months ago are complete strangers, they have to introduce themselves.

At my father's funeral, I sat next to this one girl for an hour and twenty minutes. It was only later that I found out she was my sister. I hadn't seen her in three years.

As far as television goes, I can recognize maybe 30 celebrities, but only because I watch the shows daily. I can only enjoy reruns that run daily, because prime time shows are only once weekly, and I forget who everyone is.

I assume from the above comments that the pictures in the video are some sort of celebrities; I wouldn't know.


/threadjack over

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/ Prosopagnosia

the illusion perhaps?

Try viewing it upside down for even more creepy goodness. I also tried it with color filter 3D glasses, which did not seem to have any effect (other than to make the colors a little muddy).

So you're telling me that when I focus on a certain point, things I see outside of that focal point will be distorted?

Grimble Crumble: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Grimble Crumble: Prosopagnosia

I think you mean Flashed Face Distortion?

No, faces don't have any meaning to me; I can't recognize most people. Never have been able to. I can only recognize those I spend an hour or more with every day for at least five days a week.

I can tell my coworkers, and family members (mostly), but don't recognize any of my neighbors. Coworkers that used to work with me six months ago are complete strangers, they have to introduce themselves.

At my father's funeral, I sat next to this one girl for an hour and twenty minutes. It was only later that I found out she was my sister. I hadn't seen her in three years.

As far as television goes, I can recognize maybe 30 celebrities, but only because I watch the shows daily. I can only enjoy reruns that run daily, because prime time shows are only once weekly, and I forget who everyone is.

I assume from the above comments that the pictures in the video are some sort of celebrities; I wouldn't know.


/threadjack over

The effect should work fine whether you recognize the faces or not.

Grimble Crumble: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: Grimble Crumble: Prosopagnosia

I think you mean Flashed Face Distortion?

No, faces don't have any meaning to me; I can't recognize most people. Never have been able to. I can only recognize those I spend an hour or more with every day for at least five days a week.

I can tell my coworkers, and family members (mostly), but don't recognize any of my neighbors. Coworkers that used to work with me six months ago are complete strangers, they have to introduce themselves.

At my father's funeral, I sat next to this one girl for an hour and twenty minutes. It was only later that I found out she was my sister. I hadn't seen her in three years.

As far as television goes, I can recognize maybe 30 celebrities, but only because I watch the shows daily. I can only enjoy reruns that run daily, because prime time shows are only once weekly, and I forget who everyone is.

I assume from the above comments that the pictures in the video are some sort of celebrities; I wouldn't know.


/threadjack over

Here's a picture of my family and I:

Stares off into space in agreement

Ever read that Stephen King story Suffer the Little Children?

Didn't make it through the video, it was too freaky. It was like they were alien body snatchers whose faces began to revert when you weren't paying attention, only to snap back just as you looked at them.

All I saw was a plus sign and some flashing things on either side.

I think it safe to say that this proves they are all monsters. Something must be done.

MensRea: I think it safe to say that this proves they are all monsters. Something must be done.

from space

That's pretty much the most freaky illusion I've seen.. I thought for sure the pictures were shopped until I went back to see what they looked like.

I think it works better if your eyes are closer to the screen..

Still not an illusion. You really only see in detail what you're looking directly at, by focusing on the + you're ensuring you won't process all of the information of the pictures on the sides.

It's a neat demonstration of how vision gets processed, and how much brain function is spent on faces in particular. More of a science in motion, remarkably easy Mr. Wizard stuff, than any kind of trick or misdirection that is meant to actually fool and entertain people. It's a lesson, not an illusion, though one could base an illusion based on the phenomenon.

People say illusion as if it's a constructed deceit in common parlance but it ends up and it's just a display of biological phenomenon. Technically correct(fitting a different and uncommon definition of illusion), but misleading. I suppose more hits result from illusion than science behind perception. Whatever, it's neat, but is has was the last ten times it's been on fark too.....*yawn*

These "illusion" links show you nothing that's really been manipulated and let your mind do all the work. Meaning, the most boring and crappy illusionists would not dare to use these things as is. Nothing like actual entertainment, just interesting education. Bit of a pet peeve I suppose.

Then again, I should take it as granted, that people will find things like this amazing illusions worthy of the stage. I'm on fark after all. We mock ICP and their theory on magnets(magic all up in this biatch), then spin around and cast childlike wonderment at the very simplest of things.

...

Well that was weird.

Mentat: What in the fark are you babbling about?

Sorry, I'll try to keep my posts down to mono-syllabic grunts just for you.

I think they paired the people in the pictures by similarity of nose structure.

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No, faces don't have any meaning to me...

The effect should work fine whether you recognize the faces or not.

I wouldn't bet on it. It's probably the part of the brain that processes faces doing some hocus-pocus that's causing this illusion. If your brain doesn't process faces normally the illusion probably does not work. There are some other illusions which involve faces either right side up or upside-down that rely on such things as well and I'd imagine someone with Prosopagnosia would not be affected by those as much as well.