Is it a duck or a rabbit?
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Something a little different:
Stare at the red dot on the woman's nose for 30 seconds.
Then look at a blank wall, white or lightly colored, while blinking quickly.
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@boomzilla it gets worse? I'm looking but I'm doing this in a VM. Ed, you're up.
ed. redhead, blue shirt
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@boomzilla said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Stare at the red dot on the woman's nose for 30 seconds.
I'm disappointed that this was not a jump scare gif.
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@error said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
@boomzilla said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Stare at the red dot on the woman's nose for 30 seconds.
I'm disappointed that this was not a jump scare gif.
Shit, I must've looked too long then. That, or you're not scared of zombie clown squid.
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@error said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
@boomzilla said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Stare at the red dot on the woman's nose for 30 seconds.
I'm disappointed that this was not a jump scare gif.
I've certainly had my share of jump scares intensely staring at the monitor while wearing headphones and someone sneaking up on me.
Alas, this was not the case.
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@Zecc It's even more with a VR headset.
Even without mischievous friends (:forever-alone:), horror games can invade your personal space in VR and it's hard not to react to.
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@error said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
@Zecc It's even more with a VR headset.
Even without mischievous friends (:forever-alone:), horror games can invade your personal space in VR and it's hard not to react to.
3D sound can do a decent job. Playing the player's breath sounds back to them, amplified and offset behind them, f'rinstance.
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@Gribnit said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Playing the player's breath sounds back to them, amplified and offset behind them, f'rinstance.
An unexpectedly good concept...
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Go ahead and make this full screen. Or don't, I'm not your mom.
https://youtu.be/TXk-Oc35oN4That won second place in this contest: http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2021/
Here's the winner:
Other cool illusions in the link above as well.
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Also there's the second place winner from 2015:
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(Copied from Imgur)
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@JBert There's a "her"?
Ah, I can see how one might perceive such.
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@Tsaukpaetra the photo was presumably in much higher quality before the captions were added.
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A floating cat?
From Reddit
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https://nitter.nl/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/1580564461936513024#m
Not pure black, but close enough.
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@Zecc said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Amazing. Specially the right-most one. Really looks like it's running.
Same principle as a barber pole.
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From:
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@Zecc I see, a duck head superimposed next to a fecal rabbit island, regardless of orientation.
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@Gribnit said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
@Zecc I see, a duck head superimposed next to a fecal rabbit island, regardless of orientation.
I... actually agree? Huh. Someone fix that damn clock!
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@Tsaukpaetra Even a broken clock is right twice/day.
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@Atazhaia
a digital 24h clock is only right once a day
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@Luhmann For additional : Same with an analog 24 clock. But still, it is right daily and therefore good enough!
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@Atazhaia He have FYI.
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@Zecc said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
@Atazhaia He have FYI.
If you run on 64-bit utime, randomly regenerated many times per second, you can be right a surprisingly large small number of times per day.
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@Tsaukpaetra dude it just sits there.
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@Tsaukpaetra the first one has got a panda.
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I don't know if it's because I've read about it already, but in the thumbnail the illusion is broken for me.
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@Zecc said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
in the thumbnail the illusion is broken for me
I saw it quite some time ago...
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@dkf I just wondered if Wes Anderson framed the shot.
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I'm thinking Rabbit.
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Look upon my works, ye mighty and dispair.
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@DogsB forget Manbearpig, this is Duckrabbit! Or is it Rabbitduck?
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@Zecc said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Screw twitter, here's the content:
I'm not sure why they need to check that the black is indeed black (or the white white)?
What is the illusion (?) supposed to be? To me looking a long time at the original picture starts making the zebra stripes pulsating or maybe moving, but I don't see anything wrong/weird with the colours themselves?
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@remi When zoomed out doesn't the bottom right "circle" look yellow to you? It certainly does to me.
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@Zecc the white in that circle does seem a bit yellowish, yes. But... certainly not to the point where I'd need to zoom down to individual pixels to check that it's white. And the black isn't affected at all.
The fact that the white next to the blue seems a bit "whiter" reminds me of the old washing chemical trick: pure white linen tends to look a bit yellowish by itself, so in the olden days you'd add a tiny dose of methylene blue to tint it blue, as the result looked overall "white."
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@remi the person posting it clearly didn’t believe it was actually white because it looked yellow enough to them otherwise.
Sometimes that extra validation is important.
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@Arantor fair enough.
Apologies if sounded like I was poo-pooing the OP, it's more that I wondered if I was missing some part of the visual effect. The video made me believe (wrongly, as it turns out) that something more spectacular was happening.
(also, and probably because of the part before, to me the video seemed to be focusing on the black pixels, which don't change at all, so that made it even more confusing for me!)
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@remi said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
I wondered if I was missing some part of the visual effect.
Same. This time I read to the end of the thread before replying because I had hopes someone else had the same.
I recognized the illusion from the blue-gold-white-black dress bullshit from a while ago, clued in by the excessive blue bars extending across the whole image.
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I was having a hell of a time trying to see the patterns. Usually I'm really good at "magic eye" type illusions but this one had me flummoxed.
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Took me forever to find the 16 circles in this image:
I'm not sure I'd get there if I didn't have this helper image to prime me for it.
Now I've seen them, I can't unsee them.
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@Zecc I didn’t see them at first, then I went looking at the only places they could be, and now I too cannot unsee them.
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@Zecc I saw them right away, but maybe I was primed by reading your sentence beforehand
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@Zecc said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Now I've seen them, I can't unsee them.
That's cool, though I'm able to flip back and forth.
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@Zecc said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?:
Now I've seen them, I can't unsee them.
Impressive. I can unsee them, but not voluntarily. When I shift my gaze to a different part of the picture I randomly either see them or not, and if I don't see them I can keep it that way. But if I decide to start seeing them at one point, I can't unsee them until I've looked elsewhere and back. Weird.
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Instructions unclear; I moved my phone into the bedroom but from that point I couldn’t see the picture any more.
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@kazitor I moved my phone away but the image on my monitor stayed Einstein
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@boomzilla Now I've seen Marilyn Monroe with granny hair and a mustache. I'd much rather not have seen that.