Comments on: Relative Size Nuns Illusion

By: Jakey O'Neill

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:46:55 +0000

I measured with a ruler one is 3.2cm (the one closest), the other is 3.3cm (the furthest).

By: i.love.illusions

i.love.illusions — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:16:07 +0000

oh lord have mercy! half the people who comment here don’t even look at the rest of the change in the jar before putting their two cents in. yes, it’s photoshopped, and yes it’s supposed to be photoshopped. if this were a drawing where the artist exactly replicated the size of the nuns three times in three different places in a distance scaled background, would that make it a “real” illusion instead of a “faked” illusion? really folks, i, for one, would like it if you fully understand the definition of the word “illusion” before you go off crying about how something is not a valid illusion just because it is a real life pic which has been photoshopped. there is a difference between creating an illusion with photoshop and photoshopping a photo to make it look like a naturally occurring illusion. this is an illusion of scale created artistically by humans to fool the mind, not an illusion of God created naturally which fools the mind. even the pics which are not photoshopped but attempt to fool the mind with scale, distance, and POV trickery fall under the same category as this pic which is photoshopped. it is just an artist’s way of making the mind think outside the box and see something that isn’t really true. (like the statue of a boy sticking his finger in the butt of a lion statue) finally, i have a very keen eye for detail, especially when i know to really examine something, and i also measured the the pairs of nuns. the “closest” pair IS slightly smaller than the other two. that ruined an already sub-par illusion for me. i prefer for illusions such as these to be actual artwork and not just photoshopped pics, and for actual photography illusions to be naturally occurring with or without effective uses of distance and camera angle to manipulate scale perspective.

By: Kei

Kei — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:17:17 +0000

This type of illusion can be explained in two ways, which is 2th Dimension and 3D.

If you talk about the relative size in 2D,
it is same.

But in 3D they are different.
Except it looks kind of weird to me…..

By: phil

phil — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:48:22 +0000

if a bird that flies over the seagull then is a bird that flies over the bay a bay-gull?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:22:23 +0000

The nuns in right bottom are beint hit by light but they are in
A place with shadow.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:58:00 +0000

all of the nuns are exactly the same…

By: ursulamargrit

ursulamargrit — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:14:00 +0000

The Anonymous poster in post no. 13 claims he measured, and that the nuns in the front are smaller.

Actually, I also measured, and they are the same size as the rest.

Neat illusion.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:39:00 +0000

you guys dont get it. this picture is *supposed* to be photoshopped. the illusion is that each of those pairs of nuns is actually the same size, your brain makes it seem like the ones furthest away are bigger, when in reality they are all exactly the same size.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:25:00 +0000

No doubt, PhotoShop all the way. Maybe Paint.
Creatively it’s stolen from Status Quo’s ‘on the Level’. That was exactly the other way around.
(Do I sound dumb enough like this?)
Tony T

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:41:00 +0000

clearly photoshopped