How you perceive the image depends on the distance from which you are viewing it. From up close, you'll see Albert Einstein, but if you move further back from the screen, you'll see Harry Potter.
This is one of a series of hybrid images created by Aude Oliva of the Computational Visual Cognition Lab at MIT. Here's an explanation of how these images work, and here's the spinning silhouette illusion from yesterday.
[Original image uploaded to Flickr by Jeremiah Owyang]













Comments (6)
Looks like Harry Potter from a distance, Harry Potter with fake eyebrows and mustache on closeup.
Posted by: saurabh | October 14, 2007 11:32 AM