Flashed Face Distortion Effect, aka our brains are creepy.
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Would work great for an enemy type in a video game. Imagine an army of shape shifters, and whichever one you're not looking at directly morphs from Eric Stoltz Mask people to Nosferatu and so forth.
I wasn't familiar with this thing, but that first video was *amazingly* effective, for me. I'd see these all-the-way messed faces in the periphery, glance over, everything looks cool, go back to middle, and everything is immediately messed up again.
What a strong illusion.
Edit: The only way I can describe it is that it was like the faces in the periphery were collage. Assembled from bits of different faces, cut out from photos. And a given face not 'updating' all at once, but part by part (albeit rapdily). Mind-bending stuff.
What a strong illusion.
Edit: The only way I can describe it is that it was like the faces in the periphery were collage. Assembled from bits of different faces, cut out from photos. And a given face not 'updating' all at once, but part by part (albeit rapdily). Mind-bending stuff.
The normal faces become grotesque and distorted if you focus on the cross. It's fascinating.
Learned about this some years ago. Wonder if there's any connection to people seeing demons during sleep paralysis because they often can't focus on the faces.
I bet everything in your peripheral vision is your brain vaguely approximating an image with limited information, but usually you'll have immediately turned your gaze to whatever you wanted to see before noticing any inaccuracy.
LMAO saaaame
I think the way they have to align the eyes leads to my brain over compensating the size/zoom changes to make features (eyes nose and mouth) take an extreme swing.
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