Comments on: Infuriating Image http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/ Where old blogs die, come back to life, and then die again Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:50:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: DoorFrame http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4579 DoorFrame Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:14:04 +0000 http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4579 Yeah, this whole thing freaks me out. I have to stop looking at it. Yeah, this whole thing freaks me out. I have to stop looking at it.

]]> By: DoorFrame http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4578 DoorFrame Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:12:59 +0000 http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4578 I still don't really get where the last face comes from. I still don’t really get where the last face comes from.

]]> By: BusTard http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4577 BusTard Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:10:21 +0000 http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4577 When there are 13 people, the top of the second row from the left is the ringer. (He has the black tank-top and the fullest head of hair.) He looks like the guy in the middle who is raised over. He makes a former two-person column into three. (As a typographer, negative space glares, and when that 13th figure is removed, it appears as if there is far too much kearning between the 12-figure set of three-and-two on the left and two-three-two on the right.) It is akin to a shell game, and the two incongruently moving parts—one slides, the other is raised and lowered—only adds to the visual confusion. Moreover, the far left guy's hair is never replaced when the whole bit moves to the left, which is a bit of the trick too. Or so I posit, humbly. When there are 13 people, the top of the second row from the left is the ringer. (He has the black tank-top and the fullest head of hair.) He looks like the guy in the middle who is raised over. He makes a former two-person column into three. (As a typographer, negative space glares, and when that 13th figure is removed, it appears as if there is far too much kearning between the 12-figure set of three-and-two on the left and two-three-two on the right.)
It is akin to a shell game, and the two incongruently moving parts—one slides, the other is raised and lowered—only adds to the visual confusion.
Moreover, the far left guy’s hair is never replaced when the whole bit moves to the left, which is a bit of the trick too.
Or so I posit, humbly.

]]> By: DoorFrame http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4551 DoorFrame Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:49:08 +0000 http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4551 Jeez... I conceptually understand what's happening but I'm still struggling with it. It's really effective. Jeez… I conceptually understand what’s happening but I’m still struggling with it. It’s really effective.

]]> By: Troeltsch http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4550 Troeltsch Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:20:43 +0000 http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4550 I first saw this effect a very long time ago in a book of magic tricks. Most notably, the figures were racist caricatures of "Chinamen" I first saw this effect a very long time ago in a book of magic tricks. Most notably, the figures were racist caricatures of “Chinamen”

]]> By: crazymonk http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4549 crazymonk Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:51:10 +0000 http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/02/04/infuriating-image/#comment-4549 I found this: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/jokermage/12to13.jpg Also, comment 11: http://www.moillusions.com/2006/05/count-people.html I found this:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y228/jokermage/12to13.jpg

Also, comment 11:

http://www.moillusions.com/2006/05/count-people.html

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