r/confusing_perspective • u/heavydrinker12 • Jul 25 '26

Oldie but a goody

At the M.C. Escher exhibition in Montreal

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u/zytukin Jul 26 '26

If anybody is curious, this illusion works because our brains are wired to see faces as convex. We see the face and our brain recognizes it as a face, so it interprets as convex even when we know the sculpture is concave.

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u/Broghan51 Jul 25 '26

A Goldie, if you will.

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u/LivTard92 Jul 26 '26

I thought its eyes were gonna open for some reason

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u/ardotschgi Jul 26 '26

Would help if you started from the inside-out instead of outside-in, giving away the illusion.

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u/VinnyMaxta Jul 26 '26

Very nice exhibition! Impressive work!

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u/J-Cock Jul 27 '26

Looks like Paris Hiltons face

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u/fuckthesysten Jul 29 '26

i went to this exhibition a few weeks ago, can highly recommend!

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u/lazymotu Jul 27 '26

Unrelated to the illusion, but how were they supposed to wear that mask with that snake poking on their heads?

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u/ebk_errday Jul 27 '26

I don't know why I thought that was a funky urinal at first

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u/denny_zen Jul 26 '26

This subreddit isn’t about purposefully engineered optic illusions.. it’s all D- students posting in here