The Jesus Illusion
Hold on, hold on. Before everyone goes and gets all upset with me, this is not a jab at Christianity. It’s actually an illusion that features Jesus!
You might need to stare at the lines for a few minutes, but after a little while you’ll begin to see the outline of a figure. I found it helpful to actually step away from the monitor to really see the image pop out.
Obviously, this is an optical illusion. But it was also an entry in some sort of design competition or an ad or something. If anyone knows more about where this came from please share with the rest of us.
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hmmmm…don’t need to step away. If you have Windows PC, just click your Ctrl+the minus (-) keys and your screen will move back. To return it into focus, just do CTRL + Plus sign (+)
i saw it stright away and then after 5 secons i saw nothing it went white
Cool optical illusion. Had to step back from the screen pretty far to see it though. Would be funny if this was randomly featured on some product bar codes.
cool
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nevermind i had to look at it for a couple of seconds!!??? HAHA
hey i couldnt see anything is that unusal???!!:D
please, tell me the software make it’s that
Hey, very cool I also found that it is easy to see it if you shake your head and look at it at the same time. Hope that helps
hey it really rocking, i can see after a few moments.
hey great ! i was able to see that after lookin for few sec
I haven’t seen this one before, I thought it was going be an illusion I found a couple of years ago. Similar concept, different image.
Generate a set of lines (it helped me to first draw 3 pixel wide, black lines on a white background, resize the image to 200% or so, and gaussian blur a bit). Copy the layer over an image and set the layer to multiply. Then add another layer with the same lines on top of the two, and set it to “normal”, with about 85% opacity depending on the contrast in the original image. Rescale a bit to get the same line density as in the jesus case, et voila, :-).
Thats pretty cool. I saw it right away though. ;o)
– Andrew
Yep, stood back about 6′ – saw it fine. And yep, I agree with the previous comment re: Western iconography that portrays Jesus as a Nordic or Slavic looking man. He was a Semite from the Middle East – he would’ve looked more like Yasser Arafat or Ariel Sharon at 30 then anyone else.
You know, what I noticed was that it is easier to see in the thumbnail version, but harder to see in the full sized version. Perhaps I shouldn’t have put the thumbnail up because it would have made people look harder…
John
I saw it right away, too, WU!! :)
Hmm, I’m a little confused – I saw the figure right away on the page. Is that unusual? Did anyone else experience that?
The History Channel ran a special on what Jesus would look like. Brown hair and blue eyes be damned, that wasn’t the look back then and that’s not what he looked like. My mother doesn’t agree. But then again, she’s certain that God wears white robes, has a long white beard, is white, and has a deep commanding voice.
I’m religious, but I also enjoy challenging my own beliefs by asking questions such as “If God is not of this world (if he’s in “heaven”), is he technically an “alien”?”. It’s very important to be comfortable enough to question your faith. If you’re not comfortable doing so, you probably need to study it more to figure out what you truly believe. Faith is funny that way :)
I thought I had submitted a comment already, but I guess not.
I was just going to say that was a pretty controversial and eye-catching title with an equally eye-catching optical illusion. I like the optical illusions but sometimes they make my eyes hurt.
Pretty eye-catching, controversial title. Pretty eye-catching optical illusion!
It’s easy to see if you view your screen from different angles. I see some Italian looking guy in some ornate robes not a Jewish carpenter from 2000 years ago. :D
I had to get about 10′ back from the screen to really see this one..
I love optical illusions tho, keep em coming :)