This optical illusion set is located at the MIT museum in Cambridge, and is consisted of eight portraits. The whole set was created by Aude Oliva, Ph.D. The small thumbnail on the left gives you idea what you would see when you’re far away from it – Looks like 8 different portraits, right? Well, as you assumed it’s just another optical illusion. To experience the effect, you have to look at each portrait from smaller distance. I enlarged the photos for you the see them easier (or you can open the left photo in full-size).
You can see them all magically turn to Albert Einstein. The expanded image changes as you get closer. You see It’s JUST Einstein. You can try again, by expanding the image and stepping backward! How did this work? Our eyes see the details when we get closer, and this changes our perception of the image! Jump inside this article to see all the close-ups (8 of them), and if all this still isn’t enough, I linked some words to similar hybrid optical illusions. This should be enough for some time. Also, please take a second to vote for this story on Digg.
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This is cool! :)
it works if you just squint your eyes too
wow .. cool :D
indeed you can o.o coolness~
neat (=
This is super awesome, and 2. Anonymous’s way works well indeed. Very nice illusion.
Where can I get large printable versions of these?
I believe this one is better live. You spot the portraits, and then they change while you approach.
awesome ^^
what if it id just drawnon and is not a illusion…… it might just be einstien on one and other people on the other
strange…..very strange
Way cool!!
the first photo really looks like daniel radcliff/harry potter xD nice OI
Very cool!!
its pretty cool. i likee elbert
:)
the first one looks like daniel radcliff, the one right beside it marilyn monroe, and the last one albert einstein
after looking at the pictures for a while i think i have figured out what they might have done to make this. if you look closely (i find looking at the daniel radcliffe picture easiest) it looks like there is just a blurred picture of daniel radcliffe BEHIND a picture of einstein. the picture of einstein is simply made more transparent, so from far away you cant see it and you can only see the picture of daniel behind it, which hasnt been made more transparent. if you look at the other pictures you will see that his jacket will look different in all the pictures, sometimes with lots of white where the tie is, and sometimes with almost no white at all. that is because the people in the pictures behind him are wearing different clothes.
Very cool! I never thought Albert Einstein could ever be morphed into all of these people.
I love this!
awesome, but its much better i nperson
This is so cool! I really like Albert Einstein, and I have been interested in him for about eleven years. I also am interested in optical illusions, so this just made my day! I hope that all of you respect Mr. Einstein for the great man that he is! Does anyone know any other good optical illusions?
Hay que estar muy aburrido para hacer eso!
the two at the top right are george bernard shaw and salvador dali. the bottom left portraits are sean connery and john lennon(?). someone has already named daniel radcliffe and marilyn monroe but who is the woman jsut next to the real einstein?
my mom liked it and recomended the site to her friends!
Omg that is awesome,i totally see daniel radcliffe and marilyn monroe, optical illusions like this are awesome!!!!
Wow! That is really neat! Is the first one Daniel Radcliffe? it sure looks like him!
after looking at this photo for a while, im starting to think that it is completely photoshopped. maybe im wrong, but my friend has photoshop and he does stuff like this everyday. i cant believe how obvious this is and no one else notices it except me. one of the photos is einstein and the other is celeberaties. am i the only one thats not stpuid?
he was not is he’s dead now you know that right?
to Paul:
I WAS GONNA SAY THAT!!!!!!!!!! I HATE U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :@ >:P
I generate exactly the same kind of illusions, too. I have a weblog with a few of them. For example, the link below is the hybrid face of Lena and Yulia from the music band TATU.
http://hybridface.blogspot.com/2007/08/tatu.html
Enlighten me with your comments!
I think that is Kate Winslet? to the left of Einstien
i think that this is very interesting.it has its own uniqueness and i love that. it just has something really cool to look at.
This is exactly why I <3 this website so much
in the top left corner it looks like harry potter
this is similar to the illusion “no sex causes bad eyes”
Other really cool illusions at the MIT Museum are the holographs
is the mystery woman next to albert rachel weisz ?
Daniel Radcliffe, Marilyn Monroe, ?, ?, Dr. Phil, ? (but someone mentioned John Lennon), Kate Winslet or Madonna, Einstein.
I recognize Sean Connery, Sigmund Freud, John Lennon, Salvador Dali, and Marilyn Monroe in 5 of the photos, and one other seems to just be a photo of Albert Einstein, but I’m not sure who the other two are — possibly Daniel Radcliffe and Kate Winslet.
These pictures reveal the secret behind Mona Lisa’s smile.The different types of photo receptors in your Retina perceive either soft/fuzzy shades or sharp contrasts depending on focal length and angle.That’s why Leonardo’s famous painting appears to smile when you look away.
if u squint looking at the seperate einstien pictures, you see the pictures u see from far away