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Optical Illusion Dragon
Cool little optical illusion with a paper dragon.
Nov 5, 2004 6:19 AM
Re: Optical Illusion Dragon
Want one of your own?http://www.grand-illusions.com/images/dragon.JPGIt's 200 dpi so use Photoshop or a similar program to print it out. Don't try to print it out from your browser. Instructions included.
By: lyzard
Re: Optical Illusion Dragon
yes i do want one!!! was worried I'd have to painfully and tragically recreate it from this video... this is so weird and great =)
By: inkblob
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And I thought that those littel pot dolls whos eye's follow you around the room are freaky. :S
By: Darkfire
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Once you know how it works, it is a bit hard to focus on the illusion.
By: ByteBaron
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You're right about that... It looks so much better on camera because it was filmed with only one lens, but it's rather hard to replicate with two eyes.
And on a different note, there's an illusion much like this one at the Smithsonian. It appears to be a dollhouse (it true hollow head form) but is shaped in such a way that your brain tries to focus on the inside and outside at once. It really hurt my head the first time I saw it. =)
And on a different note, there's an illusion much like this one at the Smithsonian. It appears to be a dollhouse (it true hollow head form) but is shaped in such a way that your brain tries to focus on the inside and outside at once. It really hurt my head the first time I saw it. =)
By: Meekay
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If you make one of these dragons, here a tip to see the illusion easier. Place the dragon a little above eye level and stare into it's eyes. Close one of your eyes. Blink you open eye a few times(while still staring at the dragon's eyes) so that you eye must refocus. After a couple of tries, you should be able to see the illusion. You'll know when you've got it.
By: lyzard
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It actually says on the cutout image you can print out.
"View from 2'... Close one eye. Look into the eyes of the creature and rock back and forth. Wow!"
Yuo're not supposed to use two eyes.
"View from 2'... Close one eye. Look into the eyes of the creature and rock back and forth. Wow!"
Yuo're not supposed to use two eyes.
By: ars_frankie
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it works best if you're about 3-4 feet away from it so yuor eyes dont pick up any flaws in the folding or cutting when you put it together. Also, keep the face in even light, either light going into the face cave, or coming from behind it. shadows within the face throw the illusion off.
By: Everfalling
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Awesome find!!!
Also check out the hollow face video on their main page which functions on the same principle. They plan on doing on with Einstein's face in 05. Really cool site.
I am surprised advertisers and marketers have not taken advantage of this atleast to my knowledge. Imagine billboards using this illusion technique.
Creepy stuff and so very very cool :)
Also check out the hollow face video on their main page which functions on the same principle. They plan on doing on with Einstein's face in 05. Really cool site.
I am surprised advertisers and marketers have not taken advantage of this atleast to my knowledge. Imagine billboards using this illusion technique.
Creepy stuff and so very very cool :)
By: PookiePoo
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i gotta say, i showed this to my mom and she freaked out. i'm keeping it on the cabinate next to our TV so when she gets up to go to the kitchen the head follows her.
i wanna see someone do this on a larger scale. that'd be awsome.
i wanna see someone do this on a larger scale. that'd be awsome.
By: Everfalling
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i made one and brought it to school.... people really freaked out :)
great way to spend a history class :)
great way to spend a history class :)
By: Leav
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It'd be harder to make a giant one bcuz you'd have to move alot more to get an effect of the head "following" you..
By: redguardmc
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what would be cool is if you could put a big one outside of a museum in a courtyard or something, with a window looking into the courtyard, so when people walk past the long window the thing outside follows them from a distance. It'd make people stay far away enough for it to work. Though i admit you wouldn't really notice it follows you unless you walk past the long window a few times.
What'd be great is if the window was made so that the window would end and the dragon would go out of sight just before you move too far to either side to ruin the illusion.
What'd be great is if the window was made so that the window would end and the dragon would go out of sight just before you move too far to either side to ruin the illusion.
By: Everfalling
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What about from inside a car? Imagine a billboard with one. With the right lighting in a controlled environment it could work very well.
By: PookiePoo
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Freaky stuff, one recamendation though, never look at it whilst drunk.....strange things happen
By: hi-wayracer
