By Vurdlak on November 6, 2007, with 65 Comments
Ever saw that movie called “Snake Eyes” with Nicholas Cage? Well, this illusion has nothing to do with it, except it shows you close-up of a snake’s eye. I love that movie, so had to mention it. Thats it. Wait, I’m kiddin’ again. The illusion is that the photo below has nothing to do with snakes… nor eyes, either! It is just an ordinary leaf found on the ground, and photographed from up close. I was pretty heavily surprised when I found it out. Did I manage to fool you as well? Hope I did :)
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it looks like an overhead map of some city.
I was like, no way it is too crinkly, but at first I couldnt figure out what it was until I read the paragraph at the top!!!!
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“it looks like an overhead map of some city.”
Indeed it does. Hails to chaos theory. Patterns and structures are similar throughout the universe, and even the human mind has to submit to them. Unless you’re an US citizens that is, of course.
It does look like something from Google Earth, though my first thought WAS a snakes eye. But it’s a leaf.
the way you present it is the best
I thought it was a scab.
….ah….the power of suggestion…
Cool! But what is that white spot on the top?
I kinda thought the web-like structure looked strange having 3 snakes at home.
its a brown leaf that has been burned
u can find things like this on google maps!
wow!! thats cool!
it’s probably a leaf that had water soaked on it to make an eye.
I agree with the first guy. At first glance i didn’t even see the snake and I thought it was a google earth illusion.
looks like a snake’s eye, but then it looks like a leaf. great illusion though! My mom was so convinced it was an eye…from far away anyway :)
It really does look like a snake’s eye! Except when I saw the lines thorugh the ‘eye’ it sorta looked fake.
p.s. does anyone have the name ‘skylar’?
kay, i say its photoshop. how about you?
It surprised me! It even looks slimy like a snake should be. I guess those are water droplets?
I thought it looked like a cracked Chrystel
Weird and creepy
it looks like a burnt hole in a leaf.
threepeat
a leaf with a drop of water on it?? is the water reflecting something dark so that it looks like a pupil?
It looks like a leaf
only slightly disturbing and scary but i love it.
Whoa. It’s really a leaf?!
Really? I thought it looked like an old painting of an eye (like, Sistine Chapel old) because it looked like the point was all cracking
I wouldn’t have guessed that it was a leaf, I like it.
its a leaf obviously
This is so cool!!! I never would’ve guessed that it was really a leaf!!!
i does look like a snake eye. but after i read the part that said its not a snake eye, i looked closer n thought it was a leaf… n then i kept readin n found out it is! lol cool :-)
This is neat, and i do believe that is is an up close shot of a leaf, but i have a hard time believing that the black part is original. I think that part was maybe photoshopped or something of the like.
was the leaf burnt to get the black mark
Anyway it fooled me it really looks like a tanish snake eye nice find
coooooooooooooool picture!
it may be a cliche, but ain’t nature wunnerful!!!
I think the technical term for this is a simulacra; something that appears to give the impression of something else… Nice.
yeah, i thought it was another google earth picture. but now i find this a cool pic.
I think its a leaf
haha i thought the same thing too the first time i looked at it :D
It really lokes like a Snake-eye, but also a leaf. And a overhead map.
Awesome!
very nice…
but i dont think they just found a leaf on the ground with that shape on it and they took a photo.
to me it seems like they burned the leaf.. less around and a little more in the middle, thus giving that effect (lol thus)
wow
THAT WAS AWSOME!
That is very cool. It left me fooled!
Seen with the right angle/perspective LIFE also looks like a snakes eye!
I knew it was a leaf…didn’t fool me…that’s a first..lol
Good job fooling me! I thought it was a snakes eye! :D
First i thought it was a trunk of a tree but then when i read the paragraph i was amazed that it was a leaf! Very COOL
One word: SAURON ;)
wow . this i call the “games of nature” its fantastic . thanx
it looks like a close up of a leaf
its crearly a leaf i did nit have me fooled i now every thing about snakes
New it was a leaf all along, never new it was a snakes eye until i saw the title.
It had me fooled at first! Only when i looked at the caption i figured it out. This is very cool.
I thought it was a snake eye.
its obviously an eye with a tear forming
its a leaf. clearly.
I also thought it was some sort of eye at first but when you said a leaf I saw what it was…i didn’t have any problems seeing it as a leaf…
at first i was fooled then when i read the descriptions, i thought it was a joke…
because i were looking closely i think i saw buildings and the black line in the middle, like a gap or somesort of earthquake err what do you call this, ah “crack”
Pretty Awesome
I thought it was a snake’s eye, probably because of the title, and then I thought it was a satellite image of a town.
Pretty cool:)
Im pretty sure its a close up of a leaf. I’ve seen this type of leaf before.
hi i dont uderstand??
ok its a leaf !!
well, i thought it was an eye AT FIRST. . But i realized that it was a leaf. .