{"id":39705,"date":"2019-08-10T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/?p=39705"},"modified":"2019-08-12T01:05:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T06:05:45","slug":"una-extrana-ilusion-optica-hace-que-veamos-los-rostros-humanos-de-manera-muy-peculiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/una-extrana-ilusion-optica-hace-que-veamos-los-rostros-humanos-de-manera-muy-peculiar\/","title":{"rendered":"A strange optical illusion makes us see human faces in a very peculiar way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the internet we find an optical illusion that makes us have a nightmare vision by looking at a point fixedly. It happens that with completely common celebrity stock photos (think of a Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie that you have seen hundreds of times in magazines, websites, movies and digital photos), added to a cross in the middle of a black field, the faces of these people transform in a peculiar way, check it out yourself:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHOA. <\/p>\n<p>Stare at the cross for ~ 10 seconds. <br \/>Your brain will make the colors disappear.<\/p>\n<p>(it &amp; #39; s crazy. And it &amp; #39; s called the Troxler effect \u2013\u2013 another clue how our minds filter reality) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lJRyPrw234\">pic.twitter.com\/lJRyPrw234<\/a><\/p>\n<p>- Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wolfejosh\/status\/1160026208719003655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here we have another example:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stare at the image for about half a minute without moving your eyes and watch as it gradually disappears. This is a variation of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Troxler?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Troxler<\/a>&#039;s effect which essentially says that if you fixate your eyes on a certain point, stimuli near that point will gradually fade. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qjIrhKpO2V\">pic.twitter.com\/qjIrhKpO2V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>- David McPhillips (@ primaryeyecare1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/primaryeyecare1\/status\/973303890350366721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is called the Troxler effect, and it has to do with how our brains filter reality. And also the as with so little (see a picture and that&#039;s it) we can get confused. We read this explanation on Tele 13:<\/p>\n<p><em>As you may have noticed - and always as long as your eyes remained still - the spots in the image disappeared. Once you blink or look away, they reappear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The phenomenon is called<strong>\u00a0&#8220;efecto Troxler&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>and it refers to the loss of peripheral vision when you fixate on a specific point. The same goes for the so-called<strong>\u00a0&#8220;t\u00fanel del conductor&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>when driving a vehicle at higher speeds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the\u00a0<em>morph<\/em> of the photos is creepy, I couldn&#039;t help but feel dizzy with the second image. And you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the internet we find an optical illusion that makes us have a nightmare vision by looking at a point fixedly. It happens that with completely common celebrity stock photos (think of a Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie that you have seen hundreds of times in magazines, websites, movies and digital photos), added to a cross ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":39708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosidades","category-entretenimiento"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1523545917-ilusion.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39709,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions\/39709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webirix.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}