ONLY the eagle-eyed can discover the secret behind this chameleon apparently in its natural habitat.
If the animal seems a little suspicious, it’s not just the photo.
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The chameleon is one of Johannes’ most popular works of art. Credit: Johannes Stotter
The animated video of the chameleon was shown on YouTube as one of the most prominent versions of the viral image.
In the YouTube version, two models covered in body paint stand back to back to make the image look like a living chameleon.
Artist Johannes Stoetter’s stunning Illusion series consists of a collection of body paint photographs depicting wildlife in its most camouflaged form.
High-resolution works such as Wolf, Owl, Whale, Butterfly and Sea Turtle demonstrate the incredible ability of Stoette, a renowned visual artist, to capture these natural creatures in unexpected ways.
Neuroscientist Patrick Cavanagh said of the tricks of the eye: “It’s really important to realize that we’re not seeing reality.”
The Dartmouth College research professor and senior fellow at Glendon College in Canada explained to Vox: “We’re seeing a story being created for us.”
While the Chameleon hides its nature from the observer quite well, the frog sees a little more of what the construction of art consists of.
Viewers can barely make out the bodies of five women ready and painted to create the life of a wild frog.
A body is strongly placed in the middle, symmetrically forming the center of the frog.
The other two bodies expand laterally to form the hand and eye of the wild animal.
Finally, two painted humans assume the fetal position to represent the frog’s lower extremities, and the toes are depicted as human feet.
“There’s a whole world of visual analysis, computation and prediction that happens outside of the visual system, it happens in the frontal lobes,” Cavanagh said.
“For things in motion, we see them ahead in their path of motion,” he explained, “enough.”
Our brain’s ability to weave this narrative “is really functional. It helps us get through those delays and see things… where they will be when we get there.”
Other recent eye tricks The Sun challenged readers to include a lurking snake and a hiding dog.
Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: HIS Education