optical illusions
Abstract Pixel Art!
October 19, 2010 - 4:22pm — mslaybauSomething Awful has a collection of extremely abstracted characters from television and movies
Can you guess who these characters are?
Gender-based Optical Illusion
August 6, 2010 - 3:32pm — mslaybauScientific American often has articles/slideshows related to visual illusions. In October 2009 they had one specifically about faces.
The illusion below struck me most. To me, and apparently to most others, the face on the left appears female and the one on the right appears male. In fact, the face is the same in both pictures, although the one on the left has higher contrast between the eyes and mouth and the rest of the face. This could be just a novelty, or could be taken as proof that lipstick and eye makeup are literally making a face appear more feminine.
