By Vurdlak on November 6, 2009, with 856 Comments
Reading the title, and understanding it came directly from me, I suppose adds some weight to the actual Leopard Illusion you see below. It’s hard for me to explain how this illusion came to be, without revealing the actual solution, thus ruining the surprise-effect for you. There is much relevant info and background for it, but for now I’ll retain myself just on revealing the author behind it – the magnificent Craig Tracy. First thing you’ll notice is that it’s not some photo of an actual animal, rather a realistically painted picture. But you’re still far from seeing the illusion. Only tip I can give you, is that leopard’s eyes were painted on a concrete floor. I suggest you examine the picture more closely before seeing this final hint. I’ll monitor the forthcoming ratings, and am eager to see if you agree with me that this must be one of the best optical illusions ever created!
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THIS IS NOT AN OPTICAL ILLUSION! JUST A GIMMICKY ART JOB….AND YES I KNOW I’M TYPING IN ALL CAPS.
I agree. That makes my TV set an “optical illusion” device.
The definition of an optical illusion, is something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality. Therefore, this is an optical illusion. NOT “gimmicky art crap”.
in regards to : “bubby says:
February 23, 2012 at 4:19 am
It’s a pretty butterfly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Its a pretty nice shaped ass, screw the butterfly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and
in regards to :”freckles says:
February 23, 2012 at 3:24 am
uh, if we can see her backside, where and how can you see her breasts at the same time?”
THANK YOU AND YES I KNOW THIS IS IN ALL CAPS… ITS FOR THE STUPID UNEDUCATED ASS jester WHO FIRST RESPONDED… I think we should change your name to SHORTBUS WINDOW LICKER… and once again YES I KNOW ITS ALL IN CAPS
To Matt at the Top of the comments:
No one EVER* said that this was a peice of “Gimmicky Art Crap” Get your facts straight or don’t comment at all. No one likes a smart a**
The picture was painted on concrete with a women lying on the ground for the nose
ur an idiot look at the nose=(
HEY JEN RE READ IT WILL YA
IS TOO…..
You’re retarded. That is an optical illusion. It would appear to be a canvas, however it’s a woman with body paint, and a painted cement floor.
Good luck being an idiot, “Jester”.
I also noticed the butterfly, and below it, two hands coming together, but I can also see an owl on the left looking at a bird on the right side.
WHERE IS THE BIRD ? OR OWL?…
pretty cool art, once u know what it is, u cant just see the picture as a leopard face.
Ok here is what i got:
The line from Top to his mouth is the back of the woman and the mouth is the bottom of her (ass) i still cant figure out what the eyes are for. can anyone please tell me?
For seeing, silly.
I c nothing!!
Did you guys even look at the side pictures of the girl sitting on the board with her legs through the hole? There is no butterfly or a kittens paw or an owl, it’s a leopards face plain and simple, what have you never seen one? gimme a break people, it’s fantastic art, nothing more! get a fricken life!
She has nice boobs too. They hit the leopard, right between the eyes! It’s always a amazing where you can find the shape of a woman. Great vision and artistic creativity.
Not can we see what’s on the leopard’s mind?
i love everyone saying its not an optical illusion. An optical illusion is an image that isnt what it really seems. Eg: we believe its a painting of a tiger but in reality its 2 separate images put together to form 1. Therefor ^^ it is in fact an OPTICAL IllUSION. I love how so many people have nothing better to do then to bust someones balls about the way he described a photo. Like fuck off
Lol silly billy! It’s a leopard not a tiger! It even says it’s a leopard in the description!!! lol^>^
1) therefore*
2) its a leopard not a tiger
3) the snout is the back of a woman and the nose is her ass. look up the artist.
4) you say people have no lives for commenting on this, yet you take the time to criticize them instead of… oh i dunno…. having a life?
Hey, can you just WATCH THE LANGUAGE!? In case you have not noticed, there are kids on this site, READING THE COMMENTS, and they see all this bad language you’re spewing. In fact, I am one of those kids, so you had better straighten up before you get banned from this site.
yes thank you an illusion is somthing that isnt what it sseams
look it up or ask you school for your money back
Unfortunately, I saw one of the hint photos to get to this site, so, the illusion was partially ruined for me.
It would be great to have the kind of time to create this stuff. I’m just treading water in my still photography career right now….
someone can speak chines
yea
This is indeed a great photo. Nice job! I don’t see the nose / butterfly someone says in the comments!? Was this really the artist intention?
This should be called the prison illusion, since they are trying to make a pussy out of some ass.
That cat can eat a bird in one sitting.
Nice pussy cat. Meow!
Very creative concept.
I’ve been pretty much blind in one eye since birth, so i’ve never had true depth perception….even tho this pic isn’t 3D. it’s difficult for me to see! Most optical illusions work fine for me, but this one doesn’t work at all…….weird….
@Bitrat, it’s not that kind of optical illusion; no depth perception required. The illusion comes in the form of the animal’s snout actually being body paint on a woman’s upper arms, back, and rear end. The rest of the animal’s face is painted on a plank or canvas (the description says concrete floor, but…?). The woman is sitting in front of the canvas and the camera is positioned behind her. Focus on the animal nose area and the shape of the snout to perceive the shape of her figure.
I’ve noticed it before see the images below… f*ck yeah !!
It’s an awesome optical effect !!
Hard to find
I think this is awesome!!! Yes it is an illusion. Tell me you can figure out it was a female with out assistance.
…even if you can figure out the ambiguity (key word) immediately, is still an illusion. There’s some kind of subjectiveness in every illusion, of course – a lake reflection picture perfectly symmetric is no longer an illusion to most of us. But it can confuses (another key word) someone who watches one of those for the first time (like a child). All we have to do is trying to respect others point of view. Because some day the lake reflection picture will be upside down and the child will alert us for that fact, unless we weren’t arrogant enough (like many posters here) blocking us to figure out that before the child.
The woman is freaking naked she’s just got paint on her! You can SEE everything, breasts, butt, and all. HOW CAN YOU LIKE THIS??????
The illusion is kinda cool though.
uh, if we can see her backside, where and how can you see her breasts at the same time?
Cool thing. Took a while to see it, but still it’s awesome
It’s a pussy cat!! lol. wonder who got 2 paint tht….? especially at the bottom part! ;)
AHHHH BAD SIGHT
2 EYES I NOSE I MOUTH IT’S A BBBBBBUUUUUUUTTTTTT
I think i got it… so there’s a naked woman’s back painted, which is the top of the painting to the nose, or the cheek thingy or watever, dat bit’s the butt. n since the eyes were painted on concrete, which WAS mentioned in the description, that bit is not part of the body anyway… so yeah, they just look like they’re painted in one canvas.
It’s a pretty butterfly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bestbodypaint.jpg go there then you will see it is half women, half paintingg
Oh i get it know
Thanks, Luke. The statement that threw me off was “that leopard’s eyes were painted on a concrete floor.” Which means that the concrete floor then had to be chipped out and mounted vertically (or two holes chopped into the floor for the legs, eh?
Otherwise it would have looked more like the backside of a cello. ;-)
If you turn the pic up side down you see a baby seal covering the eyes ;)
hey the brige of the nose and the nose is a person in a costum!!!
awesome it was a lesson more for me that in society going so fast pace we dont see what we might miss right in front of us..the body paint on the woman was amazing. i had to relax to see it…
i get its a girls body .the eyes are on the concret floor and the body is the mouth up
I can see from here that there is a female body painted in that picture. It’s obvious…
http://blog.eyebuydirect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Leopard-Optical-Illusion2.jpg
That’s amazing! SPOILER ALERT:
There is a woman’s body in there somewhere!
The nose nd part of the mout is a woman
This is very clever. For those who can’t see it (as I couldn’t at first), look at the top right of the picture, you can see where her arm finishes and the painting on the ground begins.
I didn’t get the lepoard one
Where did her legs go?
And @CW, “shortbus window licker” is sure to take a turn in my repertoire. Unfortunately your snarkumentative tone suggests a fauxtelligent trolling shniznit, which is kind of a buzzkill.
Damn.. I wish I was the painter…
i had to click the links that some of you were so kind as to post, but i saw the woman. i saw it from the beginning but people were saying you could see her breasts… what’s up with that? :P it really is a cool illusion, and the nose looks like a a butterfly to me! ^_^
forgot to mention, that i clicked the link to see which direction the woman was facing, to clear up the previously mentioned “breast” issue. you can’t see them, thank god. i love these illusions!
I see woman’s back, butterfly, seals, owls… maybe other hidden images…
i got its a woman hanging on a painting with her back and butt painted
Amazing! I want one.
Could we PLEASE get the comments REMOVED that contain “Bad Language” and “Bullying remarks toward others”!!! I thought that all of the “Comments” were Screened and had to be Approved before they are officially posted for everyone to see??? There are children that visit this website and view the content! PLEASE be RESPECTFUL when posting Comments!!!
Thank You!!!
There are 3 women and on them they painted it look ate the ass ;)
its a grl for the nose if u look very carefully u can see the butt,back and arms. pay attention to how it pops out. take a closer look.
hellxomega. the guy said the eyes were painted on concrete everything else is a grl.
david blair. STFU haha. why do we have to remove the comments with bad language. the ones with swear words never hurt anybody. hell. see
its a person in the middle.
If the nose is the woman’s butt then where’s her legs?
Now, if the leopard’s chin whiskers were actually a rather largeish merkin, then that would certainly explain why so many people claimed that it was a woman’s front. But if so, where are the breasts?
It took a minute to see but with the hint of a butt I see it now, lol.. its all I see, qwazy! Itsa woman kneeling on the ground in a worshipping stance with her breast pressed against the floor and her arms spread above her head in a “Y” formation. It is an optical illusion of a woman painted combined with the concrete floor surrounding her body painted to form the facial of a White Leopard. The butterfly or two bird heads are there to defer the eye from noticing the woman’s butt cheeks. VERY GOOD!! AMAZING.. :-)
You’re all wrong. It’s a sailboat.
I can see…. Batman!!
Half of you saw it correctly – it IS a woman’s back and butt for the muzzle and nostrils + a painted floor for the rest. Basically it’s a more complicated follow up to Man Ray’s famous old photo of a woman’s back with two painted ‘f’ holes to make her resemble a violin.
work of body paint…of a woman,her ass being the nose of the leopard with her arms opening above both eyes..she is kneeling on the painted concrete floor…
http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/bestbodypaint.jpg
WOW! She has like my perfect kind of figure! Love it I would love to see what she actually just normally looks like… I mean good GOD just perfect lovely figure
I see a human form, look at the muzzle! you see the rear end, the back, and the arms and shoulders around the eyes!
look eyesey
I think it’s actually a moth with head down the bottom. Imagine that there is a lie going down the centre and you might see it.
something’s not right with the nose
I think the hint made me believe the leapord face is painted on one of those concrete skateboard playgrounds with those curved concrete jump ramps. You can also tell by the face contours and nose. Who else thinks this?
i find this a little bit gross but at the same time an awesome piece of art, the top part of the muzzle is a woman’s butt
Ummm…. Firstly, I didnt see anything, and what IS up with the eyes thing? Then, when I saw what it really was, mmm, yes, I’ve seen it. Now, I know what it is, it is very cool. But, hey, It’s still gross.
And, yes people. Look at the nuzzle of the leapord. It is something like a butterfly. Look closely.
Do you not see a resemblance? Yes, I do. Very cool.
NOW THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!!!
THIS IS A ” R E A L ” OPTICAL ILLUSION!!!!!
IT WAS IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS TO ME THAT IT WAS A WOMAN’S BACK PAINTED LIKE THE CENTER PART OF A TIGER’S FACE PLACED AGAINST AN EQUALLY CLEVERLY PAINTED BACKGROUND. SKILLFUL, INTERESTING, AND WELL DONE, BUT NOT EXACTLY AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.
Lol,I just had a laugh at reading up all your comments
You guys should have a look at Octavia Ocampo’s art.Though it s technically coined “metamorphic art”,I think much of it could pass off as a good collection of optical illusions
i cant see anything lol
ohhh i see
It’s the eyes. The hint was a big give-away. The leopard appears to have a human eye (eye on your right-hand side) and a leopard eye (eye on your left-hand side). There’s a difference in the sclera; the human eye exposes more of the sclera, the leopard exposes less, but the iris of both eyes are the same size. Because of the sclera being exposed less on the leopard eye, it makes the iris appear bigger than the human eyes iris, which exposes more of the sclera, giving the illusion that the human eye iris is smaller than the leopard eye iris.
Yeah, yeah, I saw the butterfly on the nose, too, everybody did.
This is just MY elaboration on this illusion based on my knowledge.
Correct me if I’m wrong. I’m seriously crazy, it’s not even funny.
Oops, I mean it’s ALSO the eyes.
See? Crazy.
OK, so I just took a look at the other comments and found the REAL proof. I told ya, I’m crazy.