Have you been meaning to get to the eye doctor? No need, we can conduct a simple eye test right here and now thanks to students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Which well-known person do you see in this photo?
If you said it’s a blurry Albert Einstein, congrats – your vision is normal.
Did you see Marilyn Monroe? That means your eyes process close-up images as if they’re much farther away.
Ugh…not another #TheDress fiasco.
How can people see two different images? “The image was created by superimposing a blurry picture of the blonde movie star over a picture of Albert Einstein drawn in fine lines,” The Daily Mail says. “Features with a high spatial frequency (Einstein) are only visible when your viewing them close up, and those with low spatial frequencies (Monroe) are only visible from further away. Combining pictures of the two produces a single image which changes when the viewer moves closer or farther away from the screen.”
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[Story via Daily Mail]
[Girl with glasses image via Shutterstock]
