Thursday 12 February 2009

Happy Darwin day

To celebrate the bicentenary of the great man's birth, two British psychologists have created this odd little optical illusion. Monkey-beards, whatever next!?

How to see the illusion: Set your computer monitor to maximum brightness and then stare at the centre of the picture for about 30 seconds without moving your eyes. Next, look to a white wall and blink a few times. The monkeys should suddenly transform into a perfect picture of Darwin!

3 comments:

Louis@Antenna said...

Can anyone see it?

Stuart said...

Sort of. He's a little blury but it's definitely Darwin!

What's the evolutionary advantage of our eyes working like that?

Jo said...

Yeah I see it :)