That's supremely fascinating. It's not every day you see a completely new optical illusion. *quality

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I see a lot of pig faces.

No wonder everyone looks grotesque when I'm not looking directly at them!

fucking hell those were some ugly people optical illusion or not!

>> ^lucky760:

That's supremely fascinating. It's not every day you see a completely new optical illusion. quality


Indeed. Great job to the researchers who stumbled upon this. It's a very strong and unique illusion.

That's about as close to visually reliving my nightmares as I've seen.

That's incredible!

The most noticeable facial feature change for me was the eyes..

>> ^grinter:

I see a lot of pig faces.


A lot!

Interesting, although many of those faces are pretty unique to begin with. I'd imagine the effect would be much less noticeable with more average looking people.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'optical, illusion, flashed, face, distortion, effect, magic, science, perception' to 'the faces appear distorted, optical, illusion, flashed, face, effect, perception' - edited by chilaxe

Neither the video or the video description explain the effect, so I've added it to the tags.

i'm constantly seeing 3 eyes on people.

puberty's a heck of a drug

I don't get it. This must be the "magic eye" that I can't see.

WOW
When people have a bad trip...this is what happens.

that is freaky - I saw a bunch of world of warcraft characters

There is something fishy about this. When you frame by frame this...sure the faces don't appear altered...but there seems to be an overabundance of irregularly shaped faces in the bunch. It just doesn't look like a random sampling of people y'know?

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>> ^VoodooV:

There is something fishy about this. When you frame by frame this...sure the faces don't appear altered...but there seems to be an overabundance of irregularly shaped faces in the bunch. It just doesn't look like a random sampling of people y'know?


Yes that's intentional. They explain in the abstract:

"The degree of distortion is greatest for faces that deviate from the others in the set on a particular dimension (eg if a person has a large forehead, it looks particularly large)"

Just supremely fascinating. What an amazing discovery.

Did the researcher discover this while walking down a street one day, looking at people out of the corner of their eyes and kept thinking their were surrounded by misfits and freaks?

I saw overly large eyes, and unnatural skin pigments. Made me think of stereotypical space aliens.

Funny, I watched this by crossing my eyes until both faces matched on top of one another in the center, and most every face at that point was rather good looking. >.>

>> ^thyazide:

Funny, I watched this by crossing my eyes until both faces matched on top of one another in the center, and most every face at that point was rather good looking. >.>


sounds like you are seeing this effect

Big eyes for me as well. Crazy and loving it!

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