Thursday, 16 August 2007

Lean Pickings (Modified)

These two photos are identical. The right hand one is a direct cut and paste of the left.

So why does it slant more than the left?

Or does it?

For that matter, the right hand photo looks to have a darker sky. Curious.

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For Lucy, I have created a threesome photo. Looks weird. (Click to enlarge.)


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20 comments:

  1. promoteyourblogforfree16 August 2007 at 20:28

    nice blog

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  2. HLiza16 August 2007 at 22:23

    One of those photoshopped pics, I guess..

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  3. butterflygirl16 August 2007 at 23:06

    Oh, what technology can do.

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  4. Paul17 August 2007 at 02:21

    This is known in optometry circles as the bifurcated linear parallel declinatory verticals effect or BLPDVE for short - pronounced "Blupdove."

    Either that or I'd be clueless...

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  5. Lee17 August 2007 at 07:18

    Thanks Paul. I think.

    Hliza: It is only photoshopped to the extent that I copied the LHS photo as the RHS. Therefore the pics are identical. No fiddling.

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  6. Anonymous17 August 2007 at 09:01

    Oh my! That's cool. Why *does* it slant more?

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  7. snowsparkle17 August 2007 at 10:05

    hi lee, if one copies a jpeg and then pastes and saves it as a new jpeg, then some pixel information is lost in the jpeg compression process and so the new jpeg would not be identical pixel for pixel. Might that be part of the reason for the increased contrast in apperance of the one on the right? just one graphic designer's guess. big hugs snowsparkle

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  8. meggie17 August 2007 at 15:48

    I would suspect it is just an optical illusion. Even the darker colour is not really?
    It is interesting how the brain can be fooled by what we think we see.

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  9. riseoutofme18 August 2007 at 02:17

    Just HOW much of the red stuff was consumed on the oataversary?

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  10. Lee18 August 2007 at 11:32

    Maybe you were leaning to the right and sitting in a shadow when you c&p'd it, Lee!

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  11. Lee18 August 2007 at 12:32

    Yeah. Right.

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  12. crafty18 August 2007 at 14:24

    Damn that blupdove. They really are the same! I just measured.
    We had a book with optical illusions in it when we were kids, but I haven't seen this one before.

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  13. boneman19 August 2007 at 07:29

    Kind'a looks like a (fingered) peace sign.

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  14. Lucy19 August 2007 at 21:33

    That's clever. Did you suspect it would do that when you copied it? Intuitive blupdove!

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  15. Lucy19 August 2007 at 21:34

    ...what would happen if you added a third one?

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  16. Lee19 August 2007 at 22:49

    OK Lucy. Done. I will add it to the original blog.

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  17. Avus19 August 2007 at 23:40

    Don't do this to me, Lee - I had to get up at 4.00 am this morning, do a round trip of 240 miles in heavy rain and pick up family from the horror that is Heathrow Airport. (They enjoyed their first time in Oz by the way).

    Optical illusions?..this morning's drive was enough!

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  18. riseoutofme20 August 2007 at 02:06

    Would it eventually fall over if you did, say, 10 or 20 of them??

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  19. Flea20 August 2007 at 19:38

    Same for me, the sky turns blue-er!

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  20. Lucy22 August 2007 at 02:51

    Timberrrrr!
    Thanks Lee!

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