Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Hidden Optical Design

I usually browse the first page of FFFFOUND! for a dose of visual inspiration each day.

I saw these awesome optical illusion/designs that look like a field of dots or lines. It appears they are album sleeves for a band called Soulwax.

I would have passed right by it, but I usually stare at optical designs for at least a few seconds to observe what prolonged visual effects there are. As I was looking at it I must've briefly blurred my eyes, because I was surprised to see words appear for a second. This is a pretty crazy effect that can be seen a few different ways:

• squint your eyes
• make your vision blurry by ''flexing' your eyes
• cross your eyes just a little bit
• raise your eyebrows & stretch your eyes tight
• you get the idea

I think these are perfect examples of the ephemeral nature of language & ideas...


34 comments:

theaceofclubz said...

No kidding. I'm actually a fan of the band and have seen the covers before but I never took the time to see if anything was hidden in them. Nice

Unknown said...

Score one for the near sighted!

hint: just take off your glasses ;)

ricky said...

If you have an invitation to Fffound could you email it to me? Thanks!

Anonymous said...

I found it easier to see if you looked at it while scrolling up or down the page.

Anonymous said...

If you are lazy and running Firefox 3 Beta 5, just zoom the page out a little.. the words will become obvious... :)

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I see it right off without squinting. Damn astigmatism.

Anonymous said...

The words really jump out if you resize the images below 200x200. I first noticed "Any Minute Now" when I imported the cover onto my iPod.

Anonymous said...

Try looking at them from the side at a low angle.

Anonymous said...

If nearsighted, remove glasses and squint eyes a it.

If not, move further away from the screen.

Really cool effect. How can we replicate such a thing?

Anonymous said...

Backup a few feet...or a meter.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the glasses tip. All becomes clear.

Great effect, great band too!

Anonymous said...

I can see them without any problem or effort... pretty sure my eyes are normal too, so I dunno what's up with you lot needing techniques tbh

Anonymous said...

easy to see if you look at the image while scrolling down.

Anonymous said...

easy, Just squint your eyes. reduces the amount of white and then it's easy to see.

DoctorKlein said...

Awesome band, put on quite the party. There playing in nyc this summer, def not something to be missed.

http://newyork.going.com/event-294169;Soulwax_The_Filmore_-_NYC

bvllets said...

I feel bad for anyone who missed them at Studio B a while back!

Anonymous said...

If you've got an LCD monitor, look at the screen from an angle, and you'll see it.

Anonymous said...

Here is the recipe. It was on digg a while back.

http://digg.com/design/In_response_to_Optical_Illusion_of_the_face

Unknown said...

my eyes! my poor eyes! anyone else astigmatic here?

Anonymous said...

Also if you move your viewpoint up and down with respect to the screen they are easier to see, e.g. move laptop up and down.

Anonymous said...

It's not you, it's the E talking

Anonymous said...

Not sure about an easy way to reproduce it, but it looks like the white dots where there are letters are just slightly smaller than the other white dots.

Anonymous said...

It must just be on screen; they're perfectly easy to see in real life.

Anonymous said...

I'm Blind... (-)(-)

Anonymous said...

It's actually quite simple. The color is slightly darker on the text. Gotta love Soulwax, though. They are creative on all fronts. ^^

Anonymous said...

just move back a little and you'll see it

Nik100o said...

thanks tek-ops.com. i am nearsighted and when i took my glasses off i could see it easily. thats really cool!

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