I confess that I now look askance at all these unexplained images with which Nighthawks presents us. I think, sadly, that has taken some of the fun out of them. If you could assume that the images were genuine rather than AI or CGI, then you could revel in the ingenuity of Mother Nature. Now we are left to wonder if we are being played for suckers.
I can’t say I totally understand it…but I’ll try to explain what I think is happening.
This image, like the green one from a couple of days ago, is divided into squares, like tiles.
Where the dividing lines intersect, there are tiny, diagonal squares, as well.
The tiny squares are divided in half… sometimes in quarters, and each half is a tiny black or white rectangle… a few little squares are ¾ one or the other.
Some are divided horizontally, some vertically. and the position of the black and the white halves might change for every other square, or in rows or in patterns
Look at the “edge” of the heart (?) shape in the above. It’s marked by three quarters black or white squares that also switch orientation.
The dividing lines of the “tiles” also switch from black to white.
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Your brain perceives all this black and white as light and shadow… which tricks it isinto seeing raised and flat areas, perhaps occasional little holes.
But instead of the “light” falling in one direction, it keeps switching positions.
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Your brain constantly builds and rebuilds pictures from the tiny dots of light that your eyes perceive. It “sees” edges and shapes by recognizing shadows.
It doesn’t know what to do with these changing, fake bits of light and shadow.
It tries to force them into consistency… But that makes them seem to be in one position for part of a second and then to shift to another when the light and shadow switch.
These shifting positions make us see both depth and motion where there is none.
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I’m very sleepy, so let me know whether I have to explain better tomorrow😁
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Is he real or a model?
They’re real. They just always look fake.
I think that one is real.
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Well, I’d love to stay and meet everybody…
But I think I hear my mother calling me.
Pardon me?
Well, yes, she is… But I’m sure she’d be calling me if.she.were still….um…..
Wait… I think it’s almost time for my… um… my train.
Yes… that’s it. My train….
Gotta go. See you.
Well… I mean… I hope not…. Buh bye now…
so , how was the train trip?
Train trip… What tra…. OH!
Great. It was great.
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Really makes you want to be there in that exact location and at just that time.
I hear accordion music
you should see ” Midnight in Paris” if you haven’t already
With a big umbrella…
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Just read an article on Near Death Experiences. I don’t think I’d want one like this.
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Your new place, Happy? How’s the cell reception?
I wish! I’d be more worried about what the water and septic situation is.
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The little guy looks like a stuffed toy.
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Is this a puzzle, or something to do with taxes?
(Down in the lower left corner it says “GoSimpleTax” and most of them seem to be holding some sort of forms.)
‘find the the taxman who is not wearing a face covering.’
Answer in box.
P.S. I still say Disney didn’t make very good cartoons, so you, I, and Arfside will have to disagree..
Got him!
Same!
Yup.
But none of them is wearing it right: no covered noses at all.
I’m with you, Tigressy. As far as I’m concerned NONE of them are masked.
I was thinking that too…
For the sake of solving the puzzle, I just choose the only one wearing no mask at all.
But when they published something like this at the height of the pandemic, it was annoying, to say the least.
A store I went to had a “masks required” sign drawn like this… I pointed it out and they laughed at me!
thanks, Alex—I thought I included what to look for.
But what it said in the caption was to find ‘a sleeping pug’
Probably the caption to a different puzzle!
Or a peeping slug?
Alexi, re Disney cartoons, I agree. I find Warner Bros. hysterical, but don’t remember ever laughing at a Disney toon.
Anything with Chi & Dale and Donald.
Or Goofy.
gotta agree!
Goofy was just funny.
I laughed EVERYtime I heard Goofy fall off a cliff!
YAAAAA HOO HOO HOO HOO!
I love Goofy.
Gwarsh.
I still imitate his voice sometimes (not well).
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Is this part of a “how many accountants does it take to change a light bulb” joke?
There’s only one without a mask, and to me he’s quite obvious.
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No.
I confess that I now look askance at all these unexplained images with which Nighthawks presents us. I think, sadly, that has taken some of the fun out of them. If you could assume that the images were genuine rather than AI or CGI, then you could revel in the ingenuity of Mother Nature. Now we are left to wonder if we are being played for suckers.
I just don’t know….if I see an interesting image, I’ll post it….it rarely has an explanation accompanying them.
…nopenopenope…
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Amazing what some tiny black and white rectangles can do to the brain.
Why is it that when i scroll up and down, it gores side to side?
I can’t say I totally understand it…but I’ll try to explain what I think is happening.
This image, like the green one from a couple of days ago, is divided into squares, like tiles.
Where the dividing lines intersect, there are tiny, diagonal squares, as well.
The tiny squares are divided in half… sometimes in quarters, and each half is a tiny black or white rectangle… a few little squares are ¾ one or the other.
Some are divided horizontally, some vertically. and the position of the black and the white halves might change for every other square, or in rows or in patterns
Look at the “edge” of the heart (?) shape in the above. It’s marked by three quarters black or white squares that also switch orientation.
The dividing lines of the “tiles” also switch from black to white.
…
Your brain perceives all this black and white as light and shadow… which tricks it isinto seeing raised and flat areas, perhaps occasional little holes.
But instead of the “light” falling in one direction, it keeps switching positions.
…
Your brain constantly builds and rebuilds pictures from the tiny dots of light that your eyes perceive. It “sees” edges and shapes by recognizing shadows.
It doesn’t know what to do with these changing, fake bits of light and shadow.
It tries to force them into consistency… But that makes them seem to be in one position for part of a second and then to shift to another when the light and shadow switch.
These shifting positions make us see both depth and motion where there is none.
…
I’m very sleepy, so let me know whether I have to explain better tomorrow😁
I thought you explained it brilliantly!
Thank you!
I just hope it’s all correct. But I think so.
I see a Purple Heart which is moving…
“They .. stalked their prey.” 🤣
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Ingrid Bergman in Joan Of Arc (1948)
Any film with corndogs can’t be all bad.
But what about broccoli dogs?