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bloggerwhale.blogspot.com — You wont find anything special in the first look.Get up from your chair and move five steps back and look again.If any one know how this is happening please answer.

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  • abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1733Am I the only one who instead of walking back, rolled my chair away from the desk?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1041I stopped reading when it said "get up". Out of the question :(
  • bettermentflux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+537It's called a hybrid image and you can make them for yourself.

    That particular one is called Dr. Angry and Mr. Smile. Based off of research by Schyns & Olivia.

    This page explains it better that I could: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/fcs_SpatFreqComposites/index.html
    This one has more examples of hybrid images: http://cvcl.mit.edu/hybridimage.htm



  • KevyKev, on 10/12/2007, -13/+318I used a Firefox extension: Image Zoom, and shrunk it. It worked just as well, since I don't have 5 feet to back up.
  • SurrealDream, on 10/12/2007, -6/+303Doesn't matter where I am when I look at them, they still look like Christopher Walken.
  • Seruphim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+154Seriously, I think this is the only time I've seen a question answered in digg that wasn't insulting. kudos
  • Fungo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+152It's a rather simple explanation. Look at the shading and lines on each one. The ugly ass dude looks that way because of very small lines that you can only see from close up. As you move farther away, those lines in essence disappear leaving the chick. As for the image on the right, from close up you can see weird shading on the picture, but you think nothing of it. However, when you move farther away, the shading makes up the smallest details you can see, therefore transforming her into an ugly, angry dude.
  • DurkaMcDurk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+129I really think this guy deserves a cookie from the submitter.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+134@lolcopter
    Maybe you should squint.. Saves you from getting up..
  • monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -1/+98just like that girl at the bar last night...holy *****!
  • Innagadadavida, on 11/03/2007, -2/+92Those of us with glasses can just take them off for a moment. It works the same.
  • cuoops, on 11/08/2007, -9/+97more cowbell!
  • mentor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+70Yes, it's two pictures combined using a frequency dependent edge detection filters. One is a high-pass filter, giving the fine details, to be seen from close up; and the other is a low-pass filter giving the far away details. Note how fine details override ciarse details.
  • tedades, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45This is exactly the effect my colleagues face has on me.
    From far away she looks pretty, but as soon as you walk closer you'll go :(
  • weyhan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51The devil is in the details!
  • yossariantwin, on 10/12/2007, -13/+54save yourself the 8 steps back and just squint. this is the same reason people voted for bush. he seemed helpless and normal. now we've taken our proverbial 8 steps back and we seem him for the ***** he is.
  • razrielle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36Its a sailboat
  • aussieNickuss, on 10/12/2007, -15/+45If you squint you don't have to get up. Instead of the pics swapping position though....they just both go evil.
  • tangential, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30If you just picked her up, what the hell are you doing commenting on digg? Priorities massively wrong.
  • chestertonb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Personally I think he used magic.
  • codemonkey76, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Simple explanation:

    High frequencies in an image are those regions where intensity changes rapidly (i.e. high contrast = edges).
    Low frequenies in an image are those regions where intensity changes gradually (i.e. low contrast = gradients, blends, constant values)

    When your eye is close to an image, you can see every pixel, so low frequency changes may be harder to notice - high frequencies dominate (a by-product of normal human vision, which probably gives more weight to the shape (outline), placement and overall intensity of objects than gradual variations within the object).

    When your eye is farther away, you are unable to resolve individual pixels. Their intensities "blend" together - this is exactly what a low pass filter is. (Imagine you went even farther away, until you could barely see the image except as a "dot" in your field of view. The "color" of that dot is the average intensity of the whole image - all pixels in the image have been blended into one "pixel". This is an extreme low-pass filter).

    So the artist took 2 images (evil and benevolent) and produced 2 more from each (one high-frequency version and one low-frequency version) for a total of 4. He took the high-frequency of one and blended it with the low-frequency of the other, to produce 2 composite images.
  • Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Which suggests that the effect is caused by loss of fine details, notably the frown-lines on Dr Angy.
  • Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18No you idiot it's a schooner
  • jestrella, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16if the title got your attention, take off you glasses instead of walking back
  • Sirking, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Gotta go farther back
  • jeriqo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17high-pass and low-pass filters
  • CokeEatsYummy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+24http://bv-design.com/lol.jpg and it's easy to create.
  • speccy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13This is my favourite optical illusion: http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/checkershadow_illusion.html
  • lintmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14If they're so smart, why is Mr. Smile a woman?
  • 13B1303, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15So let me get this straight... You picked up a hot chick at the bar and she is presumably back at your place. I can only assume that a girl that will go home with a guy from a bar is ready and willing to participate in some sexual activity.
    You however fired up your computer, logged into digg and are now commenting on stories... Unless she is A) hideous B) throwing up on you or C) a man you have no excuse for your actions. Turn in your man card immediately!
  • daridave, on 11/08/2007, -3/+16WOW, ugly people pretty..

    WITHOUT BEER !!!!!!!!!!!

    I don't believe it.
  • xyzyx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14It's impressive that even in a story completely unrelated to politics, someone manages to drag Bush into this. Man i love Digg.
  • markpoepsel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Great. Nightmares. It's 3:30 and I'm looking at this. This is the kind of thing that my subconscious will dwell on. Thanks. Great.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12So this explains the beer goggle effect.
  • cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -2/+13The quality of submissions to digg is steadily falling :-(
  • handsomeramin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17I am too lazy to take 8 steps back so I just pushed my chair as far as I could.
  • SkittlesUSA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You can also throw the monitor 8 steps ahead instead of moving 8 steps back.
  • morriscat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I vote we digg down anything with "GEEKS!!" in the title.

    Now if only Fox News had a blog or two so I could post things with "IDIOTS!!" in the headline... :)
  • unfinite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I wanted to make one, saw your post, now know how it works, and! http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s6/unfinite/demo2small.jpg?t=1176665246
    ANGRY UGLY ME to SMILEY FACE ME
  • zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Hmm. I think it looks like Dignity.
  • jun2san, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I literally stared at that picture for 20 minutes in disbelief.

    Had to open it up in photoshop just to make sure.
  • Seruphim, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10My arms aren't long enough to hold my laptop far enough away =(
  • logir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Get up? Move? What? A true geek simply takes off his glasses.
  • ssam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19325971.600-hybrid-images-now-you-see-them.html
  • iRoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wow. Does EVERY article break the top 10 nowadays?
  • brian1625, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Speaking of that, here's a neat Mona Lisa Illusion
    http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html

    This illusion distorts our facial recognition software.
  • Arcesius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5you don't get along with people well, do you?
  • toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Don't be surprised when you go to bed at 2 with a 10 and wake up at 10 with a 2.
  • GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Use your heads guys! Obviously he tapped it, and THEN logged in to digg. Beats cuddling!
  • knowledg333, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Doesn't matter where I am when I look at them, they still look butt ugly.... Is one of them supposed to be a chick or something?
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