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That was pretty cool...if I saw it right.

Their faces just look like caricatures that could have been drawn out by an artist at a carnival/fair right?
 

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good stuff

anyone care to explain what is going on with my eyes.
 

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This isn't right. I look in the center, and the faces are distorted. I look at the faces directly, and they're all normal or fairly normal.

How is this possible? I'm just gonna turn my computer off and go for a walk.
 

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good stuff

anyone care to explain what is going on with my eyes.

RESEARCH | MATTHEW B. THOMPSON

Like many interesting scientific discoveries, this one was an accident. Sean Murphy, an undergraduate student, was working alone in the lab on a set of faces for one of his experiments. He aligned a set of faces at the eyes and started to skim through them. After a few seconds, he noticed that some of the faces began to appear highly deformed and grotesque. He looked at the especially ugly faces individually, but each of them appeared normal or even attractive. We called it the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect” and wanted to share it with the world, so we put it on YouTube.

The effect seems to depend on processing each face in light of the others. By aligning the faces at the eyes and presenting them quickly, it becomes much easier to compare them, so the differences between the faces are more extreme. If someone has a large jaw, it looks almost ogre-like. If they have an especially large forehead, then it looks particularly bulbous. We’re conducting several experiments right now to figure out exactly what’s causing this effect, so watch this space!



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I think it shows that a lot of what we "see" is just our brains trying to make sense of things
 
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