By Vurdlak on January 24, 2012, with 128 Comments
Richard Borwick discovered another phenomenal optical illusion this morning. Sure, we’ve seen the effect in action couple of times before, but then again – how often do you come across incredibly original optical illusions? Not often I guess… Still, what I’ve found so great about his discovery is how innocent it looks at first glance. Almost as if there was no evidence of the hidden illusion it holds… But wait! What if you blurred your vision just for a second? Go cross-eyed, blur your stare or simply step few feet back from your monitor. Now what you see? It has to be magic, right? Just when you’re done, be sure to share his identity…
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Looks like a young Roy Orbison to me. Though that Barney Stinson (whoever he is) image is similar.
it looks like a man to me but it hearts your eyes XD
James Bond?
If you are on a laptop you can just tilt the screen back to see it.
It’s Barrack Obama
It’s not Barrack Obama, but it kind of looks like that guy who stars in Catch Me If You Can movie.
NPH?
Neil Patrick Harris!!!
If you turn your monitor you can see it a bit better. All I can tell is that it is someone in a suit.
Who is he? Oh well, the artist did this by darkening some of the white lines to create the picture. Eh… now I’m trying to do something like this. XD
I can’t see him, leaning the screen back seems to work a little… not much more than when its in icon view…
I thought it was Doogie Howser
But like I said I can’t really see it.
Yeah forget about… its like those blots that were famous a decade ago… took me all day no really all day… about half the day was spent looking at it with my sister, and sometimes mom pointing out different things in the picture… so I could mentally draw it… final about five minutes before supper I seen it… the first and last time, it hangs now where I walk by (facing, than taking a corner) at least five times a day, I still don’t see it… I try every once and a while…
This type is just not my game.
stinson, that guy’s awesome!
If you reduce the size of image u can easily see him clearly without crossing your eyes.
YOU SEE HIM BETTER WHEN YOU CROSS YOUR EYES AND HALFWAY CLOSE THEM
I can’t cross my eyes so I pulled the corners of my eyes laterally and then saw it! Does look like NPH!
Oh lawd. Is that Rick Astley?
It is roger moore
you don;t really need to close your eyes. just tilt the screen you hola.
To me I see Rick Astley!
Barney Stinson!
I flew back 10 ft when I saw who it was, I just couldn’t handle the awesomeness
looks like some next bald cocassian wearing a suit
Mitt Romney. Now I ask why him?
Ross from Friends?
I think we have just been Rick Rolled!!
took another look and it does look like it’s Neil Patrick Harris…but I’m going for Rick Astley.
why do i have an urge to say ” true story ” i know! thanks to reddit
Hi! Just go away from the screen and you will see it immediately
charlie sheen?
I will be very interested to know how is this done? I mean how do they hide the picture in bars like that
The key is in the white spaces – there’s an almost imperceptible grey tone among them. Try to copy the picture to a paint/photo editor and turn the black bars to white. BTW, you get better perception when viewing from ~30 degrees from any of it sides.
It was Neil Patrick Harris.
How I met your mother’s neil harris
I see Barney Stinson
Obviously Barney from HIMYM. From the episode where Robin tries to get a bad picture and it always ends up like this