Can you see the mans smiling face? Psychologist shows off incredible illusion

[Ron Obvious]

It took me a few seconds to see it. There really is a face hidden there.

A Japanese psychologist with a fondness for optical illusions has baffled the internet with his latest – a picture of a man’s smiling face, which just looks like a blank grid.

But there really is a face in there: you just have to work a bit harder to see it.

Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a psychology professor at Ritsumeikan University in Japan, produced the image with a grid layered over a low-contrast image.

There’s various tricks you can use to make the image clearer, Kitaoka says – including standing at a distance, viewing the image at an angle or simply scrolling up and down with a mouse.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/can-you-see-the-mans-smiling-face-psychologist-shows-off-incredible-illusion-140218903.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I can see it, but it's faint.

It reminds me of those "magic" 3D pictures from a few years back.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. WOW - saw the face by standing at a distance!

Interesting

[WinkyDink]

6. Yes!

[pinboy3niner]

3. Blue and black

[pintobean]

4. I was very faint, but became much clearer

when I tilted the top of my screen away from me.



Quick scrolling worked, too.

[Dustlawyer]

5. That did the trick, thanks!

Tilted the screen way away from me and could see him pretty clearly.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Oooooh....you're correct....

plus sitting at a distance and then moving the laptop screen back (tilted), gave a lot more detail on either one alone.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. cool - easiest way to see it is scroll the picture up and down smoothly. Really neat!

[sinkingfeeling]

8. I see it, but to me it's fleeting. Only there for a few seconds.

[femmocrat]

9. I see Neil Gorsuch. nt

[milestogo]

10. I saw an alien.

[Binkie The Clown]

11. Up close I struggled to see a vague outline of a face, but from a distance...

..it was easy to see a vague outline of a face.

This will never replace 1080p.

[Duppers]

12. Definitely.

Quite easily on my phone.

[Generic Brad]

13. Saw it when I scrolled up

And I was surprised to see it was in color as well.

[Ron Obvious]

15. Now you're just messing with my head! n/t