Shocking illusion – Pretty celebrities turn ugly!
Prepare to be freaked out, again. You’ve seen “Pretty girls turn ugly” now try the celebrity version!
It won second place in the Best Illusion of the Year Contest, 2012!
It’s a new scientific finding called the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect”. You can read more about it here
http://mbthompson.com/research
and here
http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p6968
Tangen, J. M., Murphy, S. C., & Thompson, M. B. (2011). Flashed face distortion effect: Grotesque faces from relative spaces. Perception, 40, 628-630 doi:10.1068/p6968
Hat tip http://boingboing.net/2012/05/22/weird-illusion-causes-faces-to.html