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  2. Thatcher effect - Wikipedia

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    The Thatcher illusion has also been useful in revealing the psychology of face recognition. Typically, experiments using the Thatcher illusion look at the time required to see the inconsistent features either upright or inverted. [7] Such measures have been used to determine the nature of the processing of holistic facial images. [8]

  3. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    The Hering illusion (1861): When two straight and parallel lines are presented in front of radial background (like the spokes of a bicycle), the lines appear as if they were bowed outwards. Hollow-Face illusion: The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face.

  4. Optical illusion can tell if you need glasses - AOL

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    Cover one eye; read the letters aloud. Cover the other eye; read the letters aloud. Ah, the standard eye exam. A few lines of text and the doctor can tell you whether you have poor vision. But let ...

  5. Flashed face distortion effect - Wikipedia

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    The flashed face distortion effect is a visual illusion involving the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. [1] Faces appear grotesquely transformed while the viewer focuses on the cross midway between them. [2] [3] As with many scientific discoveries, the phenomenon was first observed by chance.

  6. Pareidolia - Wikipedia

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    Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...

  7. Optical illusion - Wikipedia

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    Optical illusion is also used in film by the technique of forced perspective. Op art is a style of art that uses optical illusions to create an impression of movement, or hidden images and patterns. Trompe-l'œil uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

  8. Pulfrich effect - Wikipedia

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    As in other kinds of stereoscopy, glasses are used to create the illusion of a three-dimensional image. By placing a neutral filter (e.g., the darkened lens from a pair of sunglasses) over one eye, an image, as it moves right to left (or left to right, but not up and down) will appear to move in depth, either toward or away from the viewer.

  9. The year 2020 is scary enough on its own — so play the viral game at your own risk. Take This Lollipop 2, also known as the Lollipop Challenge or the Zoom Lollipop Game, is a horror game ...