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Thatcher Effect – Optical Illusion and Explanation

43 pointsby robin_realatoday at 1:59 PM13 commentsview on HN

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aanettoday at 5:29 PM

Truly mind bending stuff!!

It had me screaming, esp while seeing some easily recognizable faces (Mona Lisa with that grump!)

More mind-blowing that even our primate cousins experience this effect.

evo_9today at 3:30 PM

This counting bicycles illusion is also really crazy: https://optical.toys/disappearing-bicyclist/

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joekrilltoday at 3:38 PM

I wish there were an easy way to rotate the image back. I can use the inspector in dev tools and manually change the transform style that's applied, I suppose.

jjgreentoday at 2:34 PM

When I was an infant, I went to school one day and there was no free milk, "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher" had put a stop to that. I've always hated the woman, and now you've made her worse ...

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quantummagictoday at 3:25 PM

Kanye was the only one that really didn't look too bad, his features must be very symmetrical.

drbigtoday at 2:58 PM

Thanks for the nightmare fuel! ... These things should have a warning label.

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onionytoday at 5:08 PM

Elon Musk doesn't look any different.