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Regarding illusion of the day, here we have what it seems a simple black and white striped block, while theres famous celebrity John Lennon (The Beatles) hiding somewhere inside it. Can you spot him? If not try to move away from our screen. You can also try and squint your eyes to see him. It’s really identical to Jesus in vodka cover. If you like these kind of illusions, you can also check Soulwax album cover, as well as our famous test, where you can see if you’re color blind.
I think you will find that John Lennon was in the Beatles, not the Doors.
Cheers
thnks! i fixed it
can you explain a little bit on that?
Sweet image. The Beatles rock. I think I’ll go listen to them.
How does it work?
It also help look at is sideways from a distance.. Awesome picture though.
It is simple..these lines are smaller to see the light parts en larger in the shadow parts.;not much..but enough..
omg! at first i was like, wtf is this. then i looked from a distance and turned my head a little. wow. really amazing.
preaty cool, i agree with omg! WTF is it ( the last commet. but then i looked from the distence! i love it! don’t you guys agree?!
kl illusion. clever
that is so good!!!! really good! i like !
stare right in the middle then move back from the screen
wow thats kool
i am colorblind. Just mildly though. I have tried every which way other people have suggested. None worked… What did work was when i put my head lower than the screen then moved my head side to side… Cool illusion
I’m just IMAGINE-ing that I see John in this picture! HAHAHAHA!
wow yeah this is pretty sweet
Thats awesome, how does it work? Just seems like a buncha straight lines. What worked for me was looking at it from about 45 degrees at a distance.
It’s an easy illusion to make. The “white” lines look white but if you magnify them, they contain subtle shades of grey to form the hidden image.
Very effective though………
I asked my teacher of Semiotics of visual rappresentation about how this illusion might work.
This is the answer:
I can not say out of hand who first produced this image, but Nicholas Wade will eb able to tell you a good deal about it. For now, I can only say that there are two ways to produces this type of illusion. The first is to produce the image with fine variations in width of the black and white stripes. The image of Lennon would than appear with either distal viewing or peripheral viewing. Another way to produce this image – and it is the way in which this specific image has been created – is to take a low contrast binary image of lennon, and to superimpose a high contrast pattern of stripes over it. With proximal viewing, the stripes dominate perceptual grouping, whereas the lower spatial frequencies dominate for distal viewing (at greater viewing distances, the stripes constitute a higher spatial frequency component, and thus the stripes may tend to ‘cancel’ one another). The luminance contrast transfer function of the visual system by Campell and Roberts partly accounts for this.
I think that this page could also be useful to start some research: Gestalt psychology.
thats cool… you can also see it beter if you move the window back and forth.. not too fast but not too slow… try it
thats a cool illusion, i love john SO much…
This is awesome–I just turned my screen back and voila! I had it. I know that’s cheating, but it is still cool. How did the artist make it?
–Willow, Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 9:06 PM
I can see the “hidden” images easily if I remove my glasses. I have an astigmatism (at 90 degrees) in each eye. Pretty cool huh.
i find that if you try to make your eyes go out of foucus it works much better
if you cross your eyes ever so slightly the black and white lines cross thus you see john lennon
Wow! I can’t see if i have my glasses on, but take them off and i can =D
Very cool but i don’t like the beatles … at all :(
If you have a laptop, tilt the screen down so the computer is flat and you can REALLY see it well.
At first it looked like Klaus Beaudulaire, but after staring for a minute, the face dissapeared & I started seeing chartruece colored jigsaw swirles where the face was, then the face reappeared but looked like George Washington, then I started seeing verticle lines all over the screen & was unable to read text for a few moments. The secong time I tried this, instead of seeing lines all over the sdreen, I saw multicolored static, like what you see on TV. I don’t think my brain liked this one.
if u have a laptop…then then bend the screen back and u will c it perfectly!!!
wow, that’s so easy to make.. They just added darker white in the white space..
if u look frm a distace it will appaear clearly bt as soon as you come close it dissapears
it hurts my eyes so i cant look at it!
I SEE HIM!!!
omg i saw a face…spooky O________O
Somehow, I saw ET also…. :D
move back it actually helps you see him and getting really close makes it harder so don’t and it gives me a head ache and also wheels on the bus go orund and round i don’t care i fi spell some of this wong to bad
Good picture of me
why do i seee branches and leaves when i looked closer
i saw a lady wearing sepectacles.She had short hair & looked a little old. It was really illusing………
SCREW THE FACE OFFA WHOEVER KILLED HIM!!! Sorry i just luv jl
Tilt your screen away from u! its scary!
All this is is black and white picture of John with stripes going over his face
you have to look at the picture from below!!!!!
Could someone tell me how to create this? Just point me to a website that could answer this question. I am searching myself, but in vain ! :(
First I saw Mickey Mouse then I saw George Washington then I saw Trinity then I saw my self and that is all.