OT: Strange Things

Suicide Junkie · #1 July 23rd, 2003, 01:59 AM

Ooh, that is really nifty.

Probably shadows of stuff in the bright sun. Do you happen to have a tree outside your window?
Or just some miscellaneous items on that table near the window?

PS: I see you've got everything on your desktop sorted into "SEIV" and "Crap". Hehehe

Loser · #2 July 22nd, 2003, 02:16 PM

I ought to be possible to grab the cat's eye, filter out the specific colors of the eye itself, de-warp the image as a reflection projected onto a round surface (assuming a sphere should be safe enough). Then reverse the colors for greater contrast and we may have a better view of the issue.

Not that I'm the guy to do these things, but I know we have some photo-manipulators here...

geoschmo · #3 July 22nd, 2003, 02:30 PM

You could do that Loser, but you would lose any sort of image in the process. Assuming it's not Atrocities playing a joke on us, then it is just an optical illusion and not a real reflection. Doing all that manipulation to the image will eliminate the random bits and color variances that our minds are connecting together to make a recognizable pattern. Like when the "Mars Face" viewed from another angle becomes just another mountain.

Geoschmo

Nocturnal · #4 July 22nd, 2003, 02:37 PM

That's a "Rorschach’s inkblot" as far as I can tell; it has whatever meaning you put in it. As you can see in the right eye (left in this image) you are taking a photograph of a cat looking at a window. That eye reflects what seems to be a pattern of shadows in or just outside your room. That same pattern continues across both eyes, which is why you see the inkblot in the darker left eye. Probably a tree, they tend to produce those kinds of shadows.

However, can you see the raw demonic world-destroying god-slaying power in my avatar photo?
[edit:] Ooops, no avatar photo here yet.

[ July 22, 2003, 13:55: Message edited by: Nocturnal ]

primitive · #5 July 22nd, 2003, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Atrocities:

There is a face being semi reflected in her eye. It is not me............

Sure hope so Atrocities, cause thats one ugly dude

Spoo · #6 July 22nd, 2003, 08:57 PM

Hmm... It looks more like a cartoonish face than a real one. Notice the "nose" and "mouth". I'd say it's an illusion - although a mighty cool one.

So Atrocities, did you change your wallpaper after this?

Arkcon · #7 July 22nd, 2003, 09:13 PM

The image in question has been intensely studied by the crack team of experts here at work. And we can report conclusively that it is a distorted image of an evil Ronald McDonald(TM) who has for some reason, changed his hair color to an unsightly grayish blue-green.

Your cat's compliance, in whatever nefarious schemes RM and the McD corp. are planning cannot be determined conclusively from her pose.

However, she had better keep those ears primed, and a tight grip on all nine of her lives, because the Office of Homeland Conformity ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Security will be watching.

Her hair appears short, but she's not a Persian cat, or is she?

[ July 22, 2003, 20:31: Message edited by: Arkcon ]