14 colors were used to achieve this effect.
This picture is also known as "St. Veronica's Handkerchief" and is a copy of the celebrated painting by Gabriel Max, an Austrian, who was born in 1840. The original painting, valued at $25,000, is in a private collection in Prague, Austria. His best known work in America is "The Last Token" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
It's never worked for me, but maybe it will for you. You might want to click on the picture to enlarge it before trying.
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Whoa, Bill, they do! About freaked me out! But I do often find both pictures in optical illusions . . .
When I look at it small, precisely because I'm not seeing it very clearly, I can interpret the eyes as being open. When I enlarge it, I simply see it more clearly, and the eyes are definitely closed.
Visual illusions rarely work for me anyway, though, because I don't have depth perception, and a lot of illusions in paintings and such depend on the viewer's having stereoscopic vision.
It was more of a slow morphing than a sudden opening. Cool.
Antiques Roadshow???
Beth, the picture always freaked out my kids too. I guess they saw what you saw.
Lydia, no depth perception? How do you drive a car?
"Antiques Roadshow?" Hah.
Verrry carefully. And not often at night. And not on the highway. But when it's been this way all your life, you're used to it. Imagine if you had only one eye. It's a bit like that. You'd learn to drive a car that way. You just might not be as good at it as other people.
When you find yourself standing at the edge of a seaside cliff, just don't imagine that you can walk on the water.
okay, the eyes were open as soon as i looked at it...so for me, i suppose they gradually closed. bizarre, but coolmoe, nonetheless.
I'm getting weirded out. People are seeing different things.
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