(As seen on TechRepublic Blog: Put your color printer to good use with this super-cool optical illusion)
Ok, this illusion is pretty darned cool. Basically, you print out this PDF and construct a paper sculpture of a dragon. It makes use of an inverted face illusion, so that if you close one eye while looking at it, it will look like it’s head is moving around to follow you. This video shows how strong the effect is.
I just printed out one myself, assembled it, and set it on the middle of the table in my lab’s common area. I wonder how my labmates will react when they see this tomorrow morning…
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March 24th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I just set one of these up in my cube today, it really freaked out this one girl. Pretty neat.
March 28th, 2006 at 10:53 am
4 days later…. This thing is a real hit at the office. I haven’t really told anyone about it (just 1 person), now every other person seems to know about it.
The effect is definately pretty strong.
March 28th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Heheh.. I’m glad you’re having fun with it.
October 21st, 2006 at 12:44 pm
just print one out. will try.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:14 am
It is really cool. I just made one, but it doesn’t seem to work.
July 29th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
> It is really cool. I just made one, but it doesn’t seem to work.
Mertikie, have you tried looking at it with just one eye open? That sometimes helps.
September 9th, 2007 at 11:55 am
wtf i dont wotk i just wasted my ink
November 28th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
if yours doesnt seem to work get about ten feet away and slowly rock side to side until you see it if that doesnt work get about 3 feet away and close one eye watch until you see it if you still dont make sure the face is pointing outwards if it still dosnt work… look it up!your eyes have been trained with depth persition if you cover one eye there is no 3d image because there is no depth but we have been trained so if an object is smaller we think its farther away . thats how this works!meow! =^.^=
May 17th, 2008 at 8:38 am
i tried it and it didn’t work. i even tried closing one eye.