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The young woman appears with her face turned away from the viewer while the old woman appears in profile, so the part of the drawing that represents the young woman's ear is the old woman's eye; the young woman's chin is the old woman's nose; and the young woman's choker is the old woman's mouth. [1]
Ambiguous images are important to the field of psychology because they are often research tools used in experiments. [3] There is varying evidence on whether ambiguous images can be represented mentally, [4] but a majority of research has theorized that mental images cannot be ambiguous. [5]
The philosopher Barry C. Smith compared the phenomenon with Ludwig Wittgenstein and the rabbit–duck illusion, [41] although the rabbit-duck illusion is an ambiguous image where, for most people, the alternative perceptions switch very easily.
As striking as the window illusion described in the section above is, it is nonetheless, according to Baum, surpassed by that of the Vanishing Lady, described by Stuart Culver as a "drama of desire captivating passers-by". [24] According to Baum, it constitutes an "amplification" [58] of the illusion previously described. André Gaudreault, who ...
The Hering illusion (1861): When two straight and parallel lines are presented in front of radial background (like the spokes of a bicycle), the lines appear as if they were bowed outwards. Hollow-Face illusion: The Hollow-Face illusion is an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face.
Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling. There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research ...
W.E. Hill (January 17, 1887 – December 9, 1962) was an American cartoonist and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th-century. He is best known for his weekly full-page illustration series "Among Us Mortals" published in the New York Tribune from 1916 to 1922, and for creating the most popular iteration of the optical illusion My Wife and My Mother-in-Law (1915).
The Blood Countess Director: Ulrike Ottinger Producers: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck, Bettina Brokemper Key cast: Isabelle Huppert, Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Thomas Schubert