Take a minute to watch the video above. Focus on the middle cross. Now watch it again and focus on either on the sides.
We have grown and were taught that celebrity headshots represent the ultimate beauty. And they usually do. But not always. An optical illusion called the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect”.
But…. It turns out that if you place two faces (attractive as they may be) next to each other and flash them rapidly, both faces features become exaggerated. While this is a relatively new find, Matthew B. Thompson explains some of its aspects:
The effect seems to depend on processing each face in light of the others. By aligning the faces at the eyes and presenting them quickly, it becomes much easier to compare them, so the differences between the faces are more extreme. If someone has a large jaw, it looks almost ogre-like. If they have an especially large forehead, then it looks particularly bulbous. We’re conducting several experiments right now to figure out exactly what’s causing this effect, so watch this space!
This is like wearing those sunglasses from John Carpenter’s “They Live”.
I wouldn’t be able to look at these to H-Wood goons long enough anyway.
To be honest they weren’t attractive to begin with, and I think the monster effect is what suits these fake people the most…
says the most ugly person on earth… go get a facelift.
they say angelina jolie is a shapeshifter.
Our brain makes up most of what we see. It needs to change what-it-made-up, when we look at something new, but we rarely notice it doing that. This optical illusion forces us to see that happen, by accelerating the rate of change.
How much does our brains make up?
Each of our eyes have a blind spot in the middle. It’s where the optic nerve enters. Our brain fills in that part.
Our nose adds another blind spot; our brain fills in that part too.
Our retina is behind an array of blood vessels. These blood vessels impede our vision. (Not all animals have this problem.)
Only 2% of our field-of-vision is sharp, even for people with the best eyesight. Our cheapest camera lenses beat that. Why don’t we notice this? In part because our eyes are usually moving, and we see a new 2% every time that they move.
We lose color information in the dark, cameras don’t.
I can take a photo in the dark, and make it look like daytime after processing. My eyes can’t do that.
I can take a photo of the sun, even though my eyes can’t look at it. (Don’t follow my bad example. It can damage your sensor.)
Claims about cameras dynamic range are for one aperture. Our iris changes size, so claims about our eyes dynamic range are for all apertures.
I am always reminded of the above, when I read that cameras will never work as well as the human eye.