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Pictures that speak — The best illusion i have ever seen

tides.ws — Pictures that speak of themselves — The best illusion i have ever seen. These pictures are made by words..

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  • contributor, on 10/10/2007, -48/+9It`s nice! I never ses before illusions like this, tnx man
    • royall64, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Is...is that an accent mark between it and s?
      • elnerdo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4It's a grave accent. It's the key to the left of the 1 key, on top of the tab key.
        Grave Accent: `
      • stalzdiggity, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2lol what an odd thing to notice
      • TRENT310, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I only consider it an accent grave when it's on top of a character, otherwise it's a backtick. Right?
    • CCmachined, on 10/10/2007, -12/+5urm.. Why is he getting dugg down? alot?
      • hammerpants, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12Bc no one likes him, and he doesn't have any friends.
      • CATSCEO, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6Because he's a idiot.
      • sealhands, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1i dont get it either
      • TripcodeMel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Because you're automatically relegated to sub-human status when you type without good spelling and proper punctuation.
        • bitcloud, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4without good *english* spelling and punctuation...

          Diggers seem to think that only people who speak english natively deserve respect...
      • monsterenergy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Same reason you are.
  • coolian, on 10/10/2007, -43/+284That's odd - the best illusion I've ever seen are weapons of mass destruction.
    • Nerfdude, on 10/10/2007, -20/+18one time i saw this dude saw a lady in half, it was pretty awesome.
      • Fracture98, on 10/10/2007, -3/+43...considering it was at Home Depot.
      • forferdie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0 Fill in the BLANKS. one time in band camp, i ...... your mom with a ......... so she could feel the force within her.
    • hammerpants, on 10/10/2007, -28/+12OH MY GOD. Why does everything have to be about Bush or the war or whatever? It's ***** pictures that look kinda cool. By the Hammer of Thor, how in the hell do you make this about weapons of mass destruction? What color is the sky in your world, man?
      • wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Dude, RTFA. The pictures themselves are of Bush, Osama, other key players in this war on terror. the whole thing is a commentary.
      • mrFREEZE, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Did you RTFA? War, Peace? Does that mean anything to you? Did you even recognize the faces that made up the illusions?

        Hint: One of them is the guy who's supposedly responsible for murdering 3000 Americans in one day, yet our president says he doesn't really care where he is.
      • archimago42, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Ha, I laughed. It was clever.
    • nokomm3nt, on 10/28/2007, -5/+0lol nicely put coolian.
    • sambapati87, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1thats pretty clever, i've never heard that opinion before...
    • daEvan, on 10/10/2007, -7/+0You saw the WMDs? Could you tell me where they're at please. We've been looking for them for a while and we are REALLY up a creak on this one.
    • harrison5394, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2scathing political commentary!
    • aoneal417, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1or should you say that you've never seen
    • LembasBread, on 10/28/2007, -1/+3Best comment I've read today. Not necessarily in terms of accuracy or alignment with my opinions, but definitely the funniest.
  • edithsan, on 10/10/2007, -26/+5These are pretty cool :)
    • Nerfdude, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24why is every comment you make "this is cool" or "this is great" or "thanks"? you don't get bonus points for commenting on every single article on digg. this is a strange and annoying trend- almost as annoying as these highschool views of world politics.
    • Syric, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Well heavens, God forbid he use the comment system to leave--gasp--a comment!
  • Renton, on 10/10/2007, -25/+10The best Illusion ever:
    http://i.thefairest.info/funniest_thumbs/vY4Qrg.jp ...
    • Lunsar2, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16It's a sailboat.
    • ElRayQuieres, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14lol, nice.. that's the least disturbing image of that i've seen
    • jrseney, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Crap, wish I wasn't so good at Magic Eye...
    • jrseney, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3Crap, wish I wasn't so good at Magic Eyes...
      • jrseney, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2Damn it, double comment... Im such a Digg noob... :-/
    • wilhel1812, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3i never get any of these to work :(
      • Fracture98, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Screw a hook into one of your eyes so you can move it around more easily.
      • elnerdo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4It's goatse. You don't want to get it to work.
  • Spacecow, on 10/10/2007, -9/+74If we're going to talk about optical illusions, this has always been a personal favorite of mine:
    http://xs119.xs.to/xs119/07390/blueyellowopticalil ...
    The center of both crosses is the same color (grey). Check for yourself!
    • TurboBeard, on 10/10/2007, -14/+5No it's NOT!
      • jrseney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Heh, I could have swore it wasn't true either... so I checked the colors out in gimp. Turns out they're both grey, although due to shading, theres a 5% difference depending where you grab the colors from. Still, they're both basically grey. Nice trick!
    • twofivethreetwo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18Just used the color picker in ColorZilla and it shows them both as grey (different shades) but still grey.
      • hendo1769, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's only different shades if you grab parts that are shadowed differently. I played around with it using Adobe® Photoshop® Software.
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Interesting, if you cover the left yellow side with your hand, the right side actually does look gray.
    • noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4that one's weird... this one at ebaums is better http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/3216/ ... they're both the same shade of grey believe it or not. i used photoshop to check it out...
    • billbacon, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3I'm getting 8484fc and fffe97 which is basically blue and yellow... uhm... where am I supposed to pick the colors from?

      The darker squares give 737005 and 1e1e96 which again is blue and yellow... hrmmm.
      • billbacon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5nevermind... I'm retarded... yeah the center of the crosses... duh.
    • carleethian, on 10/13/2007, -1/+16i don't get it
      • ptron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Cut a tiny hole in a piece of paper so you can only see the center of the cross. Then you be able to tell it's gray.
  • beng123, on 10/10/2007, -10/+1wow, i guess a picture tells more than a thousand words eh.
    • koick, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18nope, only two
    • ph3rny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11A picture may say a thousand words, but I prefer a thousand words, it loads a hell of a lot faster
  • PerfektXj, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2good stuff
  • TheTeenVote, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Sites dead, heres a mirror http://m3.bestpicever.com/piles/?s=artfaces
  • cerealjynx, on 10/10/2007, -7/+96lol, Tirany isn't a word
    • wilhel1812, on 10/10/2007, -11/+1yes it is, it's another way to spell tyranny
    • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -4/+83Neither is "lol"
    • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37Yeah, I though it said "tranny" at first glance, which would make the picture say "tranny freedom". A WTF moment, to be sure...
      • Fracture98, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24What's "Tranny Freedom"? Crotchless panties?
      • Plant11, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well, I'll tell you one thing; the World Trade Federation has nothing to with it. Thank you.
    • lasenorita, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4It's artistic license.
    • RST1123, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Don't tell Bush that.
    • picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"The best illusion I have ever seen"??? wtf. People will whore themselves out in any way possible to get on the front page of Digg.
  • wilhel1812, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1mirror?
  • adit, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1http://tinyurl.com/2mlvg5

    Google cache got it
  • canuq, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2mirror: http://mirror.canuq.com/3629321/2007/03/04/picture ...
  • CerealFan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27They forgot another from the same series of ads for Veja:
    http://www.planetperplex.com/img/veja_victory_defe ...
    • Kugo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Well that one is actually GOOD. These are just lame. Time to call the gene pool cleaner again! LOL
  • 0hffs, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0i doh
  • redstatepride, on 10/10/2007, -23/+3how is this an illusion i was talking i my friend at the gas station teh other today around ruby street and yeah we were looking at some allusiont ehy have at the counter and no way are these allusions u cant see what htey actually see a what you see if these were illusions u couldnt see what was hidden like right away u would have to squint and kneel down and stuff to see what was hidden inside the tricky part of the image but these are real easy to see so they cant be illusions well they can be but not really an illusions bc theyre kinda easy to get and stuff like that

    if u want real illusions goto a gas station
    • holygram, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18QUICK! SOMEONE GET THE PUNCTUATION!
    • MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Dugg up for being awesome
    • noodhoog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Gene Ray? Izzat you? How's the timecube coming along?
    • wrongonce, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7dugg for commenting while *****.
      good on ya!
    • CATSCEO, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This guy is a spamer, check his history.
  • lonegeek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2does somebody want to tell me who the first 2 are supposed to be? I'm not recognizing them.
    • redstatepride, on 10/10/2007, -7/+0dic cheney and bush
    • BloKKem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I am seeing Sadam in the 2nd picture. The first one in which tyranny is spelled wrong I dont know who it is.
      • aargh01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Castro?
      • Kugo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yeah it better not be Castro. But I think it's someone in the trailer park where this Picasso lives now and again.
    • Kugo, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1The first one is somebody named 'Tirany'. I don't know who he is and I don't think anyone else does either. LOFAO
    • Ozzy73, on 10/10/2007, -1/+171) Fidel Castro
      2) Saddam Hussein
      3) George Bush
      4) Osama bin Laden
    • Cayfox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The third one looks more like Jimmy Carter to me.
  • Ryanbread, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Wow, awesome pictures.
  • BloKKem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Is the first one supposed to spell "tyranny" instead of "tirany"? Because its definitely spelled wrong.
    • Kugo, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2OMG I didn't see that! How lame! Seriously: any intelligent person wouldn't be caught online with something so stupid. Who is this turd? LMAO
  • GeyserShitdick, on 10/10/2007, -1/+64These aren't illusions. They are words that also look like faces.

    I think the word you meant to use is "hack."
    • royall64, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Seriously, watching a day of Digg activity is like watching Forrest Gump and reading Of Mice and Men at the same time. How did the Digg population get so dumb?
  • cmpshotty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33If these are the best illusions you've ever seen, I whole heartily recommend you get out more.
    • samk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12whole heartedly
      • cmpshotty, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Good catch, thank you.
      • elnerdo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It COULD be "I wholly and heartily recommend' as well...
        If you REALLY want to use the word heartily.
    • volonix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Out more? to where? the illusion museum?
  • freeborn, on 10/10/2007, -4/+51Burried: definitely not best optical illusions. It's even hard to call them optical illusions.
    • royall64, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Optical: Eye
      Illusion: Trick
      These are not eye tricks, they are just words made to look like shapes.
    • jhshukla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2calligraphy, perhaps?
    • johnny222, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Buried*
  • Kugo, on 10/10/2007, -15/+10Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. BURIED.
  • cbegin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16When I glanced at the first one, I thought it said "Tranny Freedom".

    Just sayin'...
    • mrFREEZE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5People see what they want to see....

      Just sayin'.
    • misconstrued, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You mean it doesn't? ;)
  • synarchy, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3They all suck
    • royall64, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3This isn't a comment forum about your family.
  • Beatmiser, on 10/10/2007, -9/+8Buried. Not that impressive and 'Tirany' isn't a word.
  • jtison83, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2i don't think those are very good.
  • celeryuk, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1what a waste of my time - they were awful. bury it!!
  • Hetman, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1sorry
  • H0tKarl, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3meh
  • Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think some letters were made well, like the eyes of Bush, but others were just simply shaping letters around the face.. :p Like on Osama and his beard...
  • Oatlord, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1That was about the lamest damn site I've ever seen. Why the hell was that on the front page? Because it bashes Bush?
  • ivankraszl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Here is the continuation of the same campaign from 2007, which is probably even cooler:
    http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/veja_magazine ...
    http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/veja_magazine ...
    http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/veja_magazine ...
  • noshuke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1more... Victory or Defeat,Bomb or Bluff,Suicide or Right to die,Heal or Sin
    http://teo.esuper.ro/advertise/veja-magazine-get-b ...
  • krasb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1nice ones...But definitely not the best
  • dustysquareback, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Not illusions. At all.
  • guydudeman, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2No one noticed that tyranny is spelled incorrectly?
    • jhshukla, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1there are bigger issues to talk about. for example, how those images are not illusions but art; and not very impressive; etc.
      • guydudeman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think, if anyone wants to make a point (except about literacy), one ought to have decent spelling. Maybe that's just me.
    • Syric, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1If by no one you mean half the comments...
  • stelriah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2CAPTCHA's need to more like this.
  • mustachebandit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1buried for ***** art.
  • odkin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Castro + Freedom certainly is an illusion
  • meachen, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Digg has sunk to a new low
    • archimago42, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'm sorry but your avatar is the McDonald's arches. I cannot even think of something to say about that. There are just so many questions running through my head.
  • rimmel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Keww
  • AjaxtheGoat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That's no illusion, that's Typography.
    • Jushooter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I prefer to call it " typographic illusion ".
  • lcaldas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Uhmm...ok then.
  • CesarSolomon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is a very old ad for brazilian magazine Veja.
  • YouKnowWho, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This technique used on these works its normally called a calligram. The creator of this technique was a french dude named Guillaume Apollinaire during the first world war.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligram

    Example of works using this same technique

    http://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/14/calligram/
    http://www.deviantart.com/print/503820/
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~nxm/mscPoetry/survey/Ima ...
  • joshf52, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1These aren't illusions, nor are they tricks. Tricks are what whores do for money. Or cocaine.
  • coreyb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1You guys are really sheltered... tiranny is a proper international as well as old english spelling of tyranny. Look it up before you go around making asses out of your selves.
    • Calcheesmo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0People are sheltered because they don't look up the old english and proper international ways of spelling things? Christ that's a lame comment man. Oops, excuse me, Christos.
  • jgerland, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3wow, these are pretty lame. I'm amazed at the number of diggs - and i feel sad for us.
  • motravo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1my fave was the osama/princess leia mashup
  • WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1WTF is 'Tirany'? There is no such word. (tyranny)
    It is kind of sad when an artist acts like a fool and doesn't bother to learn how to spell correctly. It just makes for sloppy art that will be ignored!
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