9 people.

Seebs · Post by **Seebs** » January 13, 2004, 3:48 pm

I found 12 and a drunk possum fucking a dead alligator.

Shashonna · Post by **Shashonna** » January 13, 2004, 3:51 pm

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » January 13, 2004, 4:10 pm

Got 8 but can't find the 9th...

Rivera Bladestrike · Post by **Rivera Bladestrike** » January 13, 2004, 4:36 pm

I can find 5... damn

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » January 13, 2004, 4:44 pm

Yeah, I am stuck on number 9, but I need to get back to work so I probably won't find it soon!

Rivera Bladestrike · Post by **Rivera Bladestrike** » January 13, 2004, 5:48 pm

Rivera Bladestrike wrote:I can find 5... damn

7 now.... last two evade me.

Psyloche · Post by **Psyloche** » January 13, 2004, 6:26 pm

Found 9. Xou showed me a solution to it and it said there may even be 10. I can't see their #1 but I found their #10.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 13, 2004, 6:54 pm

I managed to find 4 people in the little red X graphic.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 13, 2004, 7:23 pm

There's the picture. Found 9 if the baby the chick is holding counts! Now I'm gonna have to stare at it some more.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » January 13, 2004, 8:40 pm

Aye does the baby count? If so I got 9. Took about 20 seconds.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » January 13, 2004, 8:49 pm

Umm, so where are the other 3?

Xzion · Post by **Xzion** » January 13, 2004, 8:53 pm

Seebs wrote:I found 12 and a drunk possum fucking a dead alligator.

LMAO, i spilt my sprite

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 13, 2004, 9:14 pm

My solution (provided the baby counts!)

http://home.cogeco.ca/~skeen1/pictures/9peoplesolve.jpg

Drolgin Steingrinder · January 13, 2004, 10:25 pm

Still can't see the 9th - I can see your outline of it Dregor (green line in upper left side of the picture) but it doesn't look like a face or a person to me.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 13, 2004, 11:12 pm

http://home.cogeco.ca/~skeen1/pictures/forswede.jpg

Maybe that's a bit clearer.

Asheran Mojomaster · January 13, 2004, 11:18 pm

Yay for me, found em all.

Edit : found the last one like 10 seconds after I posted I couldn't find it.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » January 14, 2004, 12:17 am

http://www.grand-illusions.com/missing.htm

Some places solution. Their 9th person I can't see at all. I think I'm right!

Also, was looking through that site, and came accross this:

The moon illusion is one of the most famous of all illusions. Stated simply, the full moon, when just above the horizon, appears much larger than when it is overhead. Yet the moon, a quarter of a million miles away from the earth, always subtends the same angle wherever it is in the sky, roughly 0.5 degrees.

The first problem is for photographers. A wonderful picture presents itself, with the full moon just rising above a spectacular horizon. Click, the picture is taken. Yet the result is disappointing. The moon seems much smaller in the photograph than it did when viewed with the naked eye. Even professional photographers fall for this one. Yet on a normal lens, 50mm on a 35mm camera, the field of view is around 50 degrees, and the width of the moon, subtending an angle of 0.5 degrees, will be 100th of the width of the photo! Many photographs that you see in magazines, containing both a moon and a landscape, will be composites. The landscape will be taken with a normal lens, the moon taken with a telephoto lens, to get a bigger image.

How does this illusion come about? Since the moon always subtends an angle of 0.5 degrees, the image on the retina must always be the same. Clearly the problem is one of interpretation. One simple experiment shows this to be so. A full moon just above the horizon will not appear so large to the human eye if a piece of paper is held up to that eye with a hole in it, so that only the moon can be seen through the hole and not the horizon. If the other eye is open at the same time, viewing both the moon and the horizon, the two eyes will each see different sized moons!

The explanation is believed to be as follows. We 'know' that a cloud that is overhead will be larger than when it moves towards the horizon. And an airplane that is a mere speck on the horizon becomes large when it is overhead. And we are all familiar with standing under a tree which seems enormous, yet at a couple of hundred paces seems insignificant. It would seem that so much of our world is interpreted this way that we are ill-equipped to cope with an object like the moon, that subtends the same angle at the eye, whatever position it occupies in the sky. And so our brain 'interprets' the image that it 'sees', and tells us that the moon is larger than it really is.

Hendrik Ball

Moon photo courtesy of Galaxy Picture Library. 100014.2426@compuserve.com, telephone +44 895 637463.

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Thanks to Robert Becker, who adds the following observations to the Moon Illusion.
One extension to the moon illusion that I learned about in a psychology class in college, is to use after images to demonstrate this effect. Simply stare at a small (2 cm diam) circle of colored paper, held at arm's length, for 20-30 seconds (the color doesn't matter, but if you use bright purple, you get a nice yellow moon after-image. It also helps to have a small dot in the circle's center to focus on -- otherwise the eye tends to wander across the circle and make the after image not as crisp. After staring at the circle, stare straight up at the ceiling (some 2 m above your head) and observe the small moon-like after image. Then repeat the procedure, but this time look over at a distant wall (some 5-10 m away). The "horizon moon" is huge, even though it still has the same angle in our eye as the overhead moon. Since we mentally project that object to be a greater distance away, when it's image does not get smaller, we "see" it as much bigger.

Just thought it was nifty.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » January 14, 2004, 12:30 am

Dregor is right, the bird in the background is the eye, follow that down against bird statue and youll see the nose, below that you can see the little indent for the lips. Its not a full face, but its a left facing profile from eye/forehead to lips. IMO, that be it.

Knibble · Post by **Knibble** » January 18, 2004, 2:02 pm

found them all.