Hollow-Face illusion

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Hollow-Face illusion

Post by Wally Balljacker » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:47 pm

I'm not sure if you've seen this before, but I'm immensely intrigued by it. It's a video clip of a Charlie Chaplin mask spinning around in a circle, and because our brain likes to form faces out of everything, even though our eyes tell us its hollow, our brain tells us it's a face, simply because our brain wants to see a face. Have a look, it's quite freaky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbKw0_v2clo

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Post by snarkout » Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:05 pm

That's pretty sweet. I'd like to see a higher res version.
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Post by allix » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:25 am

That is cool
Snarkout wrote:
I'd like to see a higher res version.
Do you really want HiDef Youtube, that sounds scary to me :P
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Post by snarkout » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:50 am

Yes. Not for the 85% of it which is useless video-myspace-like garbage, but for the remainder, which is educational, yes, I'd like more than youtube delivers.
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Post by Patrick » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:53 am

Snarkout wrote:Yes. Not for the 85% of it which is useless video-myspace-like garbage, but for the remainder, which is educational, yes, I'd like more than youtube delivers.
So what are you saying? Fat guys jumping around in their underwear lip synching Europop is worthless?! The heresy!!
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Post by snarkout » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:03 am

No, I'd file that under "educational." ;)
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