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Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by Rob Shepherd on Sunday, 10th July 2011, 13:03

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I guess this is a lot to do with the way peripheral vision works. You keep seeing really ugly faces but everytime you look you see they aren't at all!




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RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by sj on Sunday, 10th July 2011, 13:22

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Bizarre. Happy

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RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by Jimbo :oÞ on Sunday, 10th July 2011, 13:37

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Quote:
Robert John Shepherd says...
You keep seeing really ugly faces but everytime you look you see they aren't at all!
We must be looking at a different illusion.
Seemed a bit too fast for me and wasn't getting to focus on faces much but did seem a bit ugly, so started watching one side then the other.

Some are nice faces but there are loads in there that are ugly as hell and look more CGI than real faces.

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RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by ella on Sunday, 10th July 2011, 15:15

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Confused

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RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by Mark Oates on Sunday, 10th July 2011, 22:01

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It's all to do with the speed your brain processes your peripheral vision. It gives priority to processing your central vision, and peripheral vision only looks for (potentially threatening) movement. When you stare at the cross, your peripheral vision processes a mixture of all the faces. I think the ugly thing also has something to do with your brain registering faces which could be in trouble - alarmed or otherwise scared.

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RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by skirpy on Monday, 11th July 2011, 12:21

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Having only mono vision with a near blind right eye, i only seen the cross all through the show

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RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by bigfan on Tuesday, 12th July 2011, 20:05

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Quote:
We must be looking at a different illusion.
Seemed a bit too fast for me and wasn't getting to focus on faces much but did seem a bit ugly, so started watching one side then the other.


You're meant to stare at the crossheir...


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RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by Jimbo :oÞ on Tuesday, 12th July 2011, 21:11

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bigfan says...

You're meant to stare at the crossheir...
I WAS staring at the crosshair and couldn't see any focus to any faces hence I started to watch one side then the other.

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RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by marksparks999 on Tuesday, 12th July 2011, 21:22

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i think the wife was in there somewhere...

RE: Fascinating Flash Face Effect
posted by sj on Tuesday, 12th July 2011, 21:31

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Jimbo ShockedÞ says...
I WAS staring at the crosshair and couldn't see any focus to any faces hence I started to watch one side then the other.
That's the point - you can't focus on any faces - your brain combines different parts of faces so they effectively distort and look rather grotesque - often with larger eyes than the real face does.  Staring at the faces is just a sequence of normal faces.

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