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Not the dress again — illusion from two identical images confuses the internet
Digital Trends ^ | February 8, 2018 12:50 pm | By Hillary Grigonis

Posted on 02/09/2018 5:02:24 PM PST by Swordmaker

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1 posted on 02/09/2018 5:02:24 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

Cool!


2 posted on 02/09/2018 5:06:29 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Swordmaker

These kinds of illusion fascinate me. Magicians make use of our brain’s tendencies to fool us all the time. Cool!


3 posted on 02/09/2018 5:11:39 PM PST by mkmensinger
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Aaaargghh.... They still look different to me even when one is placed below the other, while scrolling down with the mouse. But when they’re still, they do look the same.


4 posted on 02/09/2018 5:12:59 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Swordmaker

Worst 3d image, ever. ;^)


5 posted on 02/09/2018 5:18:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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I must be missing something, they look identical to me.


6 posted on 02/09/2018 5:20:09 PM PST by kaehurowing
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That is a very convincing illusion. It’s like watching close-up magic — what you see is clearly impossible, but there it is.


7 posted on 02/09/2018 5:21:00 PM PST by TChad (Leftthink: Reality is sadly out of touch with the higher truth.)
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To: Swordmaker

That’s spooky!


8 posted on 02/09/2018 5:22:40 PM PST by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: Swordmaker

Interesting.

The photos are completely different.

Until I close my right eye. Then they are identical.


9 posted on 02/09/2018 5:26:27 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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Same here. They look identical to me too. I looked, looked, looked, and I can’t see any difference at all in them or how I am seeing them.


10 posted on 02/09/2018 5:27:12 PM PST by TianaHighrider (Deplorable me)
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does your brain only use one eye?


11 posted on 02/09/2018 5:33:12 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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If you cover one then the other you see they are the same.


12 posted on 02/09/2018 5:37:06 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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The photos are not identical.

The one on the right has sharper lines which causes the road to appear closer. The road on the left is blurrier so it appears to be further away.

Our right eye tends to be the prominent one so it catches first the sharp lines which are on the right.

I’m curious if the same problem would occurs if the photos were switched.


13 posted on 02/09/2018 5:43:27 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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I have 20/13 vision, and they look identical to me too. It’s not just you.


14 posted on 02/09/2018 5:53:16 PM PST by Bulwyf
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The photos are not identical.

No, they are indeed identical. The issue is your mind insists on making them diverge due to expecting them to diverge due to a life time of seeing perspective. . . so it edits in perspective that isn't there. The world our brain "sees" is not the world our eyes actually see. Perception is a strange combination of reality filtered through pre-learned expectations.

15 posted on 02/09/2018 5:56:00 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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This is cool but the photos are indeed different. The right photo has a creepy clown standing in the middle who keeps urging me to kill people. I’m surprised no one has mentioned this.


16 posted on 02/09/2018 6:10:58 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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No, they are indeed identical.

Actually, although they are very close, they are not, pixel-by-pixel identical.

If you overlay 2 copies of the image in photoshop, apply the difference blending mode to the top layer and shift it so the left image is on top of the right image, any difference shows in white or gray, while identical pixels are black. Here's what you get:

difference (100K)


17 posted on 02/09/2018 6:22:56 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Swordmaker

I didn’t “see” a difference until I read what the difference was supposed to be now I can’t unsee it!


18 posted on 02/09/2018 6:27:08 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: kaehurowing

Same here!


19 posted on 02/09/2018 6:27:38 PM PST by mupcat
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To: 1_Rain_Drop; Swordmaker; Greetings_Puny_Humans; 867V309

> The photos are not identical. The one on the right has sharper lines which causes the road to appear closer. The road on the left is blurrier so it appears to be further away.”

Must be something about your screen, the lighting in your room, your eyes, or something else. I used a hex editor (Frhed) and did an automatic comparison of the bits in the image files (by selecting Edit, Compare from current offset — starting at byte 0000), and the result was “Data matches exactly”.


20 posted on 02/09/2018 6:35:42 PM PST by GJones2 (Optical illusion -- are the two photos identical?)
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