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# What a strange effect
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Mon 23 May 2005, 19:26, archived)
# holy fuck!
that's woo
(I helped save b3ta! gazz, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:27, archived)
# Mindborkage!
Woo!
(sqrrl101, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:28, archived)
# that is very odd
(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:28, archived)
# thats...
double woo'd by me!

woo woo!

famke jansen....mmmm
(I helped save b3ta! Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Mon 23 May 2005, 19:28, archived)
# how very unsettling
(nunoncastors is more serious than cancer, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:29, archived)
# how odd
that's most woo

can't work out whether I would or not.
(I helped save b3ta! frunt It's been a while..., Mon 23 May 2005, 19:29, archived)
# OH MY BRAIN
I know it's wrong, but it looks so right :(
(od, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:29, archived)
# Whoa!
And woo! What's happening to my mind?

this is too strange

edit: How the hell did you come to find that strange effect out?
(I helped save b3ta! Druid, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:30, archived)
# I cannot remember.
I think I heard about it somewhere *ages* ago, and tried it out on a photo of claudia black. But I lost that, then I was mucking about with this photo, and... it just happened...
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Mon 23 May 2005, 19:34, archived)
# It's made my mind melt.
I keep having to look at it and twist my head around to make sure you're not cheating!
(I helped save b3ta! Druid, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:38, archived)
# It's called the
"Thatcher Illusion" www.michaelbach.de/ot/fcs_thompson-thatcher/

but that's a bloomin great rendition of it
(I helped save b3ta! Oscar Wildebeest, Tue 24 May 2005, 12:36, archived)
# freaky
very good
(I helped save b3ta! - D - SharkTrousers, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:32, archived)
# you broke my brian
damn you all to woo!
(I helped save b3ta! RarelyEvil, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:33, archived)
# Poor Brian.
Still, you have to look on the bright side!

edit : WOOHOO Thankyou to, er, whichever mod I need to thank!
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Mon 23 May 2005, 19:35, archived)
# re: Your name.
Are you about 15 by any chance?
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 23 May 2005, 20:01, archived)
# 26.
Sad, isn't it?
edit : good point though. better change it.
edit 2 : guess the joke's on me, the user name obviously doesn't change once it's on the front page. <blushes>
edit 3 : Might as well change it back.
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Mon 23 May 2005, 20:05, archived)
# That is bizarre.
It looks perfectly fine the wrong way up.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:34, archived)
# Jeepers!
how strange but also bazoo
(I helped save b3ta! The Duke of Prunes, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:35, archived)
# that's
reet grand
(burger breath, Mon 23 May 2005, 19:40, archived)
# Excellent!
Turn somebody's mouth upside down - instant front page.

Am I missing something here?
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Mon 23 May 2005, 19:59, archived)
# It's the fact that she looks normal upside down.
The brain interprets it weirdly...
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Mon 23 May 2005, 20:05, archived)
# I don't think my brain
works in quite the same way as everybody elses. I see an upside-down face when it's an upside-down face. Doesn't look normal to me when it's inverted!!111eleveneleven.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Wed 25 May 2005, 8:33, archived)
# Oh the face looks upside down when it is.
but the mouth doesn't look hideously wrong on it.
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Wed 25 May 2005, 13:38, archived)
# it's better
than a very badly drawn pencil, I'd say.
while we've got the handbags out.
(I helped save b3ta! zog why change it now?, Mon 23 May 2005, 20:11, archived)
# I like the pencil.
it's good.
And looking at Blackmoon's profile, I like his stuff too. Especially multiplayer pong...
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Mon 23 May 2005, 20:15, archived)
# the pencil is fine.
it's a good gag.
but we were talking what's worth frontpaging.
I don't think the pencil quite cuts it.
but that's just my opinion.
I also think blackmoon's work is good.
but he didn't do the pencil.
so...
(I helped save b3ta! zog why change it now?, Mon 23 May 2005, 20:37, archived)
# Multiplayer pong took me about 10 minutes.
and I was very surprised at how well it was accepted.

Thanks.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Wed 25 May 2005, 8:37, archived)
# that IS very strange
indeed!
(I helped save b3ta! zog why change it now?, Mon 23 May 2005, 20:08, archived)
# I've seen the effect before,
but only on an expressionless face.

This, sir, is utter brilliance!
([sic] You're ad here?, Mon 23 May 2005, 20:47, archived)
# lovely
(I helped save b3ta! mozza, Mon 23 May 2005, 22:08, archived)
# Jesus Christ,
that's really cool!
(hoopyfrood really knows where his towel is, Mon 23 May 2005, 23:33, archived)
# Cool effect
I have a book all about optical illusions that has a picture with the same effect...except it's of Maggie Thatcher *shudder*.

[Happosai]
(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 24 May 2005, 0:16, archived)
# dear oh dear
 
I guess none of you lot have studied undergraduate psychology of perception recently.

The original article is by Peter Thompson, "Margaret Thatcher: a new illusion."
Perception 9:483–484 (1980).

Search google for "thatcher illusion" and you can see various demonstrations...

but still, woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 24 May 2005, 5:21, archived)
# hahaha
that rules!

i think i dated a girl like that
(boink, Tue 24 May 2005, 6:27, archived)
# wow!
Thats bonkers. Nice one!
(I helped save b3ta! noodle monkey the cheese junky, Tue 24 May 2005, 8:55, archived)
# !!!
*fwap* *argh!* *fwap* *argh!* *fwap* *argh!*. Stressful.
(proddeh - dodging taxes since 2003, Tue 24 May 2005, 19:04, archived)
# There's a girl on my course
who looks exactly like the "right way up" version. She scares me.
(I helped save b3ta! Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Tue 24 May 2005, 19:54, archived)
# Yes,
I can understand that.
/original ford prefect voice
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Tue 24 May 2005, 22:11, archived)
# I doubt anyone's going to reply to this
But I don't get it. Upside down mouth, upside down face. What's the big deal?

EDIT: and I looked at the Maggie Thatcher thing, and it still makes little sense. Though it is certainly disturbing (It is Margaret Thatcher after all) It's pretty clearly just one normal face, and one with obviously superimposed upside down eyes and mouth. Turning it upside down doesn't make that any harder to spot. What optical illusion? I'm confused...
(Hazhar, Tue 24 May 2005, 23:08, archived)
# I think you must have an unusual brain.
For most of the population, the brain finds it difficult to distinguish that the mouth/eyes are the wrong way up if the picture is the wrong way up.

I looked at one of those Maggie thatcher ones (the one at www.michaelbach.de/ot/fcs_thompson-thatcher/ ) and it kinda worked, but isn't really seamless enough.
(I helped save b3ta! laminasni isn't., Wed 25 May 2005, 13:45, archived)