Comments on: David And Goliath Vintage Illusion

By: Lotte

Lotte — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:21:27 +0000

It’s not german, it’s dutch xD
but it’s funny tho

By: Rakhtael

Rakhtael — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:30:47 +0000

@ Anonymous, who said “the left text isn’t dutch it’s vlaams thats the language they speak in belgian.”, Vlaams is very similar to mid-1900 dutch, so it could very well be dutch what’s spoken. Nonetheless, as the other language is french, it’s most likely to be from some belgian book, since those are the two official languages there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:54:16 +0000

The one on the left looks larger because the perspective is from a distance further away. quite a few of Goliath's features are smaller relative to David's.

Arm length is smaller.
Hands are smaller.
Head is smaller.

Our brains are re-sizing Goliath so they are on the same scale (hands, head, arms) in which case Goliath would be larger.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:18:00 +0000

This is lame, so what.

By: ria

ria — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:50:00 +0000

it looks bigger because of the angle of the top and the bottom

it starts out smaller but gradually becomes bigger

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:29:00 +0000

ALL OF IT IS DUTCH

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:50:00 +0000

I think that goliath looks bigger because his arm is lifted a litte bit.

By: k.murdoch

k.murdoch — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:34:00 +0000

Pretty neat, and I would say it is the angle of the two, with the narrowing face lining up with the wider back side. This illusion would work just the same is the images were facing the opposite direction with the David now looking larger. Also, star at the images, cross your eyes to see three images at once and you’ll see that the two are perfectly overlapping. A little hard on the brain, but it does work!! Cheers.

By: Crawf

Crawf — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:56:00 +0000

I know this is an old illusion, but I just wanted to say that the Lee's comment about it being the Tuxedo's that make the illusion is wrong.

Copying the picture into paint & playing with it reveals that not only are the two men the same size, but the Tuxedo's have nothing to do with the illusion

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:30:00 +0000

Its the Tucks…..that make the illusion……the pictures are the same size….1st Tucks is larger and it gives a more bigger look