By on March 20, 2008, with 160 Comments

Claude Oppikofer sent me this optical illusion few days ago. I believe her email explains it all – “Dear Vurdlak, I took a picture of this commercial poster yesterday. On the original poster it took me quite a while to see the illusion, whereas on the picture it seems very obvious. (But maybe this is only because now I know it!) Henniez is the most popular soda water in Switzerland and the text says: The water full of life. Best regards, Claude”

Let’s see how many of you spot the illusion right away. It took me few seconds before I noticed it. Who will be the first to spot it? Additionally, I would like you to check our first optical illusion category in the sidebar, more precisely – “3D Sidewalk Chalk Drawings“, see any changes? It took some time, but looks much nicer now. I started to rearrange (polish) all my categories. There will be additional small thumbnail for each illusion in their appropriate category. First category has been re-designed completely, and others will follow. Please share your opinion. I’m planning to refurbish all categories in the following weeks. Do you like these changes I did? Any suggestions? Thanks for your advice!


Comments

160 Responses
  1. Anonymous says:

    I have no idea!
    Is it made out of glass?
    <3333

  2. Anonymous says:

    I love it. It took me a few seconds, but now I see it straightaway if I look at the picture! How did they make this, do you think?

    Romée.

  3. Anonymous says:

    oh i see it… a women in the other side of the water splashing

  4. Anonymous says:

    thats cool! the person coming out of the splash!

  5. MeLLyMeLL says:

    fiiiiiiiiiiiirst:D i see a lady made in the shape of the water:D

  6. Anonymous says:

    I don’t see anything ): is the image uploaded…

  7. flogeotgv says:

    Nice illusion :)

  8. Psycho-Designs says:

    Its a bit obvious, cool though

  9. Anonymous says:

    is it a woman in the splash?

  10. danny says:

    ohhhhhhh I see it it took me a while but I see it. it’s at the right of the waterfall of water you can se a woman sort of jumping with her arms up in the air.

  11. Anonymous says:

    i saw it right away

  12. piorun says:

    Cool :D

  13. suzyt says:

    at first i thought it was the water/floor but i can see the nice lady now :)

    new layout is great, the thumbnails are a fantastic idea. it would be good to do this on the monthly archive page as well?

    another thing that would be nice to have is “previous” and “next” buttons on each main page where you would click back and forth in time – like today;s “previous” would go to yesterdays etc

  14. uvalntine says:

    It took me a second or so, but I see it. It’s a woman, jumping right, out of the water splash.

  15. Dan says:

    I saw the naked lady emerging out of the water right away! ;)

    About your rearrangement, I really like it, it makes it easier to navigate through them. continue your excellent work!

  16. Shaun says:

    The water is bending backwards. I have to say, that’s a neat effect. I can’t think of how you would actually do that, but I don’t think it’s photoshopped. It just looks too nice.

  17. belzinga says:

    i see it
    there is a person in the splash

  18. Anonymous says:

    thats cool

  19. Anonymous says:

    Aquagirl

  20. chris says:

    Ahh that took me a bit to see. I looked last night and could not find it. Looked again after I woke up and saw it right away.

  21. Anonymous says:

    Spotted the illusion right away. A female springing out of the water! Very clever.

  22. Queina says:

    I saw it immediately on the widget thumbnail before I even came to the site to see it full size.

  23. Anonymous says:

    Wow, that is pretty cool. (First post! :P)

  24. 123 says:

    one of the splashes is a girl in a pretty dress with her arms in the air

  25. Anonymous says:

    Woah…thats pretty cool

  26. %FIvEW says:

    I saw it the second i opened it. Anyway, good illusion. How did they manage to make it look so realistic though? Photoshop would take too long of a time, and it would be hard to make such a realistic photo. Great job though.

    i think im the first post.

  27. TheBigMIck says:

    I saw it right away, but I think it was because I was looking for something. If I had just glanced at this ad without knowing I am not sure if I would have spotted it.
    Nice one.

  28. Anonymous says:

    oh i see it! is that a naked lady?
    ew.
    also im the first comment yay!

  29. Anonymous says:

    Jah Man. I see the Lady in the Water!!!!

    -Beverly Soto

  30. M says:

    I found it. It’s a person.

  31. Anonymous says:

    haha i saw it right away!!! (1st to comment!!)

  32. david says:

    there is the shape of a lady coming out of the splash thingy!!!!yay first comment

  33. david says:

    tht was hard tho it took a while for me to spot the lady in the splash

  34. Anonymous says:

    I saw it right away!!!!
    It was cool!!!
    =]

  35. Chris says:

    I saw it in a few seconds. It might be harder to see if the poster was quite big.

  36. Jamie says:

    Thats awesome! there is a woman on the left and comming out of the bottom is a bird

  37. Anonymous says:

    its a woman jumping out of the water backwards (or in short: simply a woman)

    saw this the first time and found it directly. Nice Illusion anyway..

  38. Anonymous says:

    Pretty cool.

  39. Anonymous says:

    Oh! I see it! Cool :)

  40. Anonymous says:

    its a lady

  41. Anonymous says:

    i found the illusion. it took some time though

  42. julia. says:

    yay for photomanip

  43. Darshak Shah says:

    a lady with her arms spread.. i wish i cud see her nipples but no.. still nice illusion:D

  44. Anonymous says:

    Once I looked at the thing properly I saw it immediately.

  45. Anonymous says:

    There is the image of a woman in the splash. She appears to be doing a ‘victory V’

  46. Anonymous says:

    Thats cool lady in the water.

  47. Lin (boggart girl) says:

    Oh! I see it, it took me a minute, but it’s not too hard. I like it :)

  48. Chance says:

    Hmm, is it the chick-looking splash of water? :D

  49. Anonymous says:

    This is a nice one.

  50. Anonymous says:

    The buxom lady is only one of at least five “people” I’ve found.

    If you look at the back of “Buxom’s” left leg, you’ll see a male’s face (nose behind her knee) in “negative” looking left.

    In front of “Buxom’s” right leg is another, though smaller, male head and shoulders (also looking left).

    In front of this little man is another female form that looks a bit like Marilyn Monroe (looking over her left bare shoulder with her robe dropping).

    Following the pour of water up from Marilyn’s head is a foot, leg, and torso with a head and face still taking form.

    I’ve also spotted a little surfer, the Shroud of Turin’s face, and a few other possibilities.

    While some of this may come from watching clouds as a kid, but the ad text does say “The water full of life.” not just one life.

    Or I could just be crazy, or a dog. On the Internet, you really can’t tell, now can you?

  51. Christine says:

    You should check out old coke can vending machines…. in the ice on te can there are many people and things to see. a woman on her siade… and a couple others. :)

  52. Victor Song ~TechDawg667~ says:

    Cool! its a lady out of the water. It could ALSO be a swan (look at the big picture)

  53. sunbow54 says:

    Yes! There is a liquid woman!

  54. Anonymous says:

    Cool. Lady in the water, but I also see a mermaid pouring out of the bottle, a child’s upper torso and legs sticking out and grabbing the mermaid’s tail.
    Or am I just crazy?
    -Liza the fire signa

  55. Anonymous says:

    I see a little horsey close to the girls legs on the left side and a small kid standing with his hands spread apart on one of the two small troughs on the right. Anybody?

  56. Anonymous says:

    didn’t take me long to see the lady.

  57. Cornelius says:

    The lady became obvious to me as soon as I scrolled down on the pic! How can it take someone without visual impairment time to notice that? And someone here did beat me to the Propel ads. I thought the same thing and was like hey, who got the concept from who? Maybe Propel took it from Henniez…

  58. Anonymous says:

    that is really cool! it is obviously photoshopped though

  59. Anonymous says:

    A seemingly naked woman jumping backwards out of the splash. Saw it almost immediately ;)

  60. Dona says:

    does no one else see the guy right beside her leg? it looks like he’s on a surfboard…. i wonder if i AM the only one that see’s this.

  61. Anonymous says:

    TOO EASY!

  62. ria says:

    how could anyone not see it ?????????
    easy but cool :)

  63. Paxton says:

    That’s really cool! the second i looked at the splash i saw the girl diving out and a few seconds later i saw a guy looking like he’s on a surfboard… Great illusion!!

  64. HOW MANY 1ST COMMENTERS ARE THERE? to easy but cool

  65. Alexis says:

    I found her too! also FIRST COMMENT! :p

  66. nika says:

    that is so cool. i wonder how it was done. :)

  67. Johnny says:

    123 what dress? O_O

  68. joel says:

    the lady is there but the man is just being formed just comming out of the bottle.

  69. Nay9 says:

    That anonymous person is right, there’s more then the lady… but they didbt see the seagals birds

  70. Anonymous says:

    I see the surfboard man Dona. That’s easy… I see a whale too. By her right leg, popping out of the water. I also see a sea serpent on the far left.

  71. emma says:

    its a lady!

  72. jefrey says:

    There is a head is the water too. On the left near the ladies legs.

  73. Isaac says:

    that is the collest illusion eva

  74. RexY says:

    Oh thts cool .. i found it out imedeatly :P

  75. Isidro says:

    a Lady with Pennis???? ooh, can u find it?

  76. Luke says:

    This is so made. Its a lady with hair.

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