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Impressive Illusion (PIC)

flickr.com — More than just a photomosaic, each individual face is a work of art itself, seemingly tailored to enhance the illusion of the larger picture, without sacrificing their individual beauty. Really impressive.

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  • BoneStamp, on 01/14/2008, -5/+86Wow, that's well done.
    • michaelb1, on 01/14/2008, -15/+9took me about 10 seconds to figure out what illusion the submitter was referring to.

      • mlwarrior, on 01/14/2008, -24/+8Cool, I really care about what you just said. That's very useful information.
        • BoneStamp, on 01/14/2008, -1/+3If they were called contributions then your sarcasm would be valid, but since they're called comments there is no need for them to be useful.
          • Chompy, on 01/15/2008, -1/+1OK, so now we're left with nobody really giving a ***** about how fast someone else figured out a given illusion.
          • Joshuarr, on 01/15/2008, -1/+1That's pretty much where I started.
      • cantaclaro, on 01/15/2008, -0/+2I love the fact that it is known that "Adam" (the first man) came from Africa, but in this photo he is made up of a bunch of brown people and still came out white! WTF!
    • sgtbutterscotch, on 01/14/2008, -1/+13I feel like the bottom right square doesn't belong. When I cross my eyes, all I see is the big face and some random woman ruining it in the corner.
      • DarkSamus, on 01/14/2008, -2/+3they're looking at each other
      • cawpin, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1I thought she was just the result of a farmer's blow.
    • beerden, on 01/14/2008, -2/+1Hmm, I don't see a Picasso painting of a woman, or Mrs. Potato Head, or a woman made with a mishmash of parts from other women, sewn together randomly like the Bride of Frankenstein, anywhere in that amazing collage.
    • SirBryce, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3If you open your eyes just enough to see a blurred picture, you can actually appreciate the illusion even more. All the shadows are perfect to make the face realistic and everything.
    • FIip, on 01/15/2008, -0/+6Photo got deleted? Mirror from artist's homepage:

      http://www.muralmosaic.com/Adam/grid-adam.jpg
  • xdvx, on 01/14/2008, -23/+3They had to had very big collection to create sth like this.
  • DroogInPhoenix, on 01/14/2008, -4/+412I wish I had talent, instead, I just digg talent.
    • kmalik, on 01/14/2008, -4/+42I don't think anyone has said that before.
    • jd33, on 01/14/2008, -1/+11If you can't beat em, digg em.
      • LmaoTzu, on 01/14/2008, -9/+0I'm going to beat you, then bury your comment.
    • Spoomeister, on 01/14/2008, -0/+18Those who can't do, Digg?
      • shodanx, on 01/14/2008, -1/+13those who can't digg, teach computer science
        • coviecarbine, on 01/14/2008, -0/+5The computer science/main IT admin at my school told me about digg.
        • daedalus1982, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3the payroll for my state university is public domain due to it's state provided funding...so I've had the opportunity to check what my professors here in the computer science department are making.

          the LOW man on the totem poll is making more than 80,000/year.
          whereas most of the professors with tenure are now netting six figures.

          so the follow up should be something like...and those that teach computer science are loaded
        • ArkAngel06, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4and those that teach computer science are loaded
  • Fletchex, on 01/14/2008, -6/+147I thought it was just a few paintings then had a spasm when i saw the whole face.
    • Ajenthavoc, on 01/14/2008, -6/+30For me it was the opposite. I noticed the face then saw the paintings within.
    • LmaoTzu, on 01/14/2008, -5/+1Spasm lol
      • source1984, on 01/14/2008, -2/+1yea thats right, ur gettin dug down for saying "spasm lol". couldn't you be original or something??
  • wisam, on 01/14/2008, -11/+1Flickr is having a massage.
  • kelsosmythe, on 01/14/2008, -10/+0I had to look at it like a magic eye type image before I saw the face...
  • Sauwan, on 01/14/2008, -25/+7I think you meant "Impressive Illustration"...

    Very well done though.
    • j4200, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6Illusion means something that seems to be something else. He meant illusion.
    • Myonosken, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4Haha, did you miss the ***** huge face?
    • shakbhaji, on 01/15/2008, -0/+1"Illusions, Michael. Trick is something a whore does for money."
  • edilclyde, on 01/14/2008, -13/+3stupid brain
  • Emused, on 01/14/2008, -10/+1In one word "Brilliant" Dugg with relish.
    • passedoutghost, on 01/14/2008, -0/+0"Dugg with relish." Now I know what relish means, but what. the. *****.
      • Emused, on 01/14/2008, -1/+1" 'Dugg with relish'.Now I know what relish means" I can see your a Harvard man.
        • Exbzurg, on 01/14/2008, -1/+3you're*
          • Emused, on 01/15/2008, -0/+1Ya know I fired my secretary for less than that, ***** grammar nazi's.
  • LmaoTzu, on 01/14/2008, -15/+1Reality is the most impressive illusion of them all.



    *LIKE, WHOA DUDE*
  • zerox2, on 01/14/2008, -32/+0wow that is cool but check this out....wtf

    http://digg.com/people/The_best_WTF_pic_you_will_s ...
  • captoftheworld, on 01/14/2008, -13/+4This would be soooo much better with LSD.
  • RickScarf, on 01/14/2008, -5/+24To those having trouble seeing it:
    Squint.
    • contradictator, on 01/14/2008, -1/+7That actually worked. Thanks!
    • dsmx, on 01/14/2008, -0/+2Or just move a few feet back from the screen
    • IglooBurner, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1or just look at the smaller version of it
  • kmalik, on 01/14/2008, -5/+9New desktop!
  • bouche, on 01/14/2008, -9/+3I was lost on this on my first look. Then I saw the bigger picture. very cool.
  • m1ss1ontomars, on 01/14/2008, -11/+1So...why was this impressive? Are you supposed to see the smaller pictures first or the larger one? I saw the larger one...
  • JohnPocket, on 01/14/2008, -4/+3very nice, I wonder if people are making prints of this, I would buy that.
  • androo, on 01/14/2008, -4/+102i still don't see the boat
  • Treshnell, on 01/14/2008, -8/+2Not a new technique, but impressive given the number of cells used to create the image.
  • narcosis219, on 01/14/2008, -7/+10Is everyone seeing the individual pictures first? The first thing I saw was the big picture.
    • 1ofMany, on 01/14/2008, -1/+5I saw the large one first as well. My eyes were looking at the mouth area when the picture came on the screen.
  • RoboHobo, on 01/14/2008, -5/+7You can do something fairly easily:
    http://www.sixdots.de/mosaik/en/index.php
    • jimi1337, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6I can do a lot of things fairly easily. But seriously, while that is a neat application, its results aren't of the same caliber as this piece.
      • RoboHobo, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3*something similar
        Yeah, it's a fun program to play around with, but it can't even approach the quality of the picture above. If someone were to develop a program like this with the ability to automatically crop the source pictures, we'd be a lot closer, though.
    • sherif2, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1Excellent Link. Awesome utility. I wish sites like this were more frequently dugg.
  • koss2010, on 01/14/2008, -5/+0I was viewing this while wearing glasses, there was a hint of illusion, lose the glasses and wow its freaking beautiful
  • sirbeta, on 01/14/2008, -1/+95The eye teeth give me the creeps.
  • RoboHobo, on 01/14/2008, -7/+2You can do something similar fairly easily: http://www.sixdots.de/mosaik/en/index.php
  • landrypants, on 01/14/2008, -3/+8The big face is really clear on the thumbnail version
    http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2136394330 ...
    • bakagaigin, on 01/14/2008, -1/+1Yeah, the only small face that is still really obvious there is the one right below the chin.
  • Archon810, on 01/14/2008, -4/+25I don't think this corresponds to the definition of illusion 100%.
    • NSMike, on 01/14/2008, -2/+5It does, actually, The face is an illusion, your mind interprets that. It's not actually there.
      • archer104, on 01/14/2008, -1/+9The face is a lie.
        • unitedstatians, on 01/14/2008, -1/+2Hence, an illusion. Illusion: the action of deceiving, the state or fact of being intellectually deceived or misled : misapprehension
  • DeadRooster, on 01/14/2008, -10/+3Pull my finger...
    • DeadRooster, on 01/14/2008, -3/+1I am totally resisting the urge to explain, but that would ruin it for everyone that gets it.
      • nickbarber, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1apparently nobody gets it because you're at -7 diggs.
        • DeadRooster, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1LOL
          Oh, all right--without totally giving it away: In order to get "pull my finger," it is necessary to recognize the overall face as a small piece of a much larger, and extremely famous work by one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Look at that painting (which happens to be on the ceiling of a famous building) and it will immediately make sense. EXTRA BONUS CLUE: the face is that of the biblical Adam.
          • nickbarber, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1why the hell would you make such a ridiculously intricate joke when you know nobody will get it just by reading the phrase, "Pull my finger..."?
  • Crossmenjeff, on 01/14/2008, -2/+7paint the big picture, grid it, then add detail to make smaller pictures.
    • 1ofMany, on 01/14/2008, -0/+7Yes, but knowing how to do it and actually doing it are 2 entirely different animals...
      • tutivlahos, on 01/14/2008, -1/+4Yeah, that's like saying:
        Here's how to beat a highest jump world record, start running, and then jump!
        • source1984, on 01/14/2008, -2/+1LOL.
          Or how about "get a warhead, some high grade uranium, some centrifuges, etc...."
          croosmenjeff. since you "know how". DO ONE and post it on digg. let's see if you can get past 10 diggs.
  • fani, on 01/14/2008, -6/+2Wow. Some people have talent. I feel like I have little to no talent now...
  • egonSchiele, on 01/14/2008, -10/+2HOLY *****!
  • NSMike, on 01/14/2008, -7/+8Does it seem to anyone else that the smaller images were done in a very similar style, leading me to believe that the same artist made each one for the specific purpose of creating the larger image?
    • 1ofMany, on 01/14/2008, -1/+3I agree.
    • Archer007, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6Duh?
    • Karmavs, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4well yeah… you can't make a photomosaic of this complexity out of twenty pictures any other way
    • danwallace, on 01/14/2008, -0/+2It also seems to me that the sky is blue.
    • anselm83, on 01/15/2008, -0/+1Is NSMike being offensive? Report it
      Is NSMike being almost unbelievably idiotic? Bury it
  • ctrlfreak13, on 01/14/2008, -0/+29How it was created and author's homepage, also includes other mosaics of his: http://www.muralmosaic.com/adam.html
    (FYI: It wasn't done in Photoshop, but instead individually on large canvases)
  • BrotherHero, on 01/14/2008, -10/+3Column D Row 2.....Monkey Boyyyy! Horse tooth from the jungle, Monkey Boy! BABABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Trollmaster, on 01/14/2008, -4/+2holy *****... my mind just went numb
  • GeneralFailure0, on 01/14/2008, -7/+2It looks likes Alyx.
  • cambob76, on 01/14/2008, -3/+3I'm not sure that's an illusion. I can see what is actually there.
    • mlwarrior, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1I think the term illusion is correct. I can also see what's actually there; a bunch of small pictures. The illusion part of it is the face that the small images create.
    • Pillard, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4It's an illusion, Michael. A trick is just something a whore does for money.
  • Hollic, on 01/14/2008, -6/+7I know I'm late to post this, but this isn't an illusion, it's simply a mosaic. Not that it isn't cool, I just want it to be credited as such. :) Neat nonetheless!
  • NewtonsNemesis, on 01/14/2008, -3/+6Wow. It's a schooner!
  • jamesov89, on 01/14/2008, -6/+1the illusion of christianity!
  • CAPITALLETTERS, on 01/14/2008, -8/+0It's good but not that impressive, it's just some pictures of heads with a bigger head as the background picture.
  • oMeSSiaHo, on 01/14/2008, -3/+2No frontspiece?
  • mrASSMAN, on 01/14/2008, -2/+4That is simply remarkable.. wow.
  • vkiperman, on 01/14/2008, -4/+1wow...
  • hulez, on 01/14/2008, -8/+2why is this impressive?
  • icynight, on 01/14/2008, -5/+0the "eye" threw me off. MY eye is drawn towards it as its the center of focus and it was harder to see the whole pic, so when i first looked at it i was looking at each individual pic to see what the illusion was...... :p lol I looked away from the screen a sec and THEN i saw the face :)
  • LittleDas, on 01/14/2008, -5/+3That's so impressive
    and by god! the symbolism!
    it's fantastic
  • 5xSTUN, on 01/14/2008, -2/+1I sitting here looking at it, thinking, "what larger face?" Then, just as I'm about to close the window, I see it. Huh.
  • juggadore, on 01/14/2008, -3/+2kinda like how you can see burt reynolds face in the intro of the brady bunch...
  • esharifi, on 01/14/2008, -7/+4I like how his hair is made up of black people, but his face consists of white people.
  • jrignaci, on 01/14/2008, -1/+1I like very much. Very beautiful, both with each individual picture and the overall design. Talk about looking at the big picture ^.^
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