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Mangesh Hattikudur
Insane Einstein Optical Illusion!
by Mangesh Hattikudur - November 15, 2006 - 2:04 PM

I read about this optical illusion on Digg, and the video demonstration of it is pretty crazy. Essentially, sculptor Bryan Parkes and manufacturer David Burder have taken a hollow mask shaped like Einstein, turned it around so that you’re looking at the inside, and then put it up to the light… and the effect is SPECTACULAR! As the video shows, when you walk around the room, the head looks like it’s turned towards you– not just the eyes, but the whole face. Pretty crazy. Link via Digg.

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  1. It’s an awful lot like the faces at the haunted mansion at disneyland

    posted by Bdon on 11-15-2006 at 3:23 pm

  2. It may be spoiling the “magic” but…

    We found out on a behind the scenes tour that Disney does the same thing in the Haunted Mansion ride. The best example is in the rooms with all the “marble” busts.

    Even knowing how the Imagineers did it, I’m amazed every time.

    posted by Carolyn on 11-15-2006 at 3:26 pm

  3. crazy… I haven’t been to the Haunted Mansion since 3rd grade (my memories of it are sort of vague), but the behind the scenes tour sounds pretty great.

    posted by Mangesh on 11-15-2006 at 5:18 pm

  4. Why’d he have to spoil a cool scary trick by making it of someone as gentle as Einstein? Shouldn’t he have made a mask of Freddy or of that dwarf kid from Burial Ground? Or a man-o-war?

    posted by Amanda on 11-16-2006 at 12:23 pm

  5. Don’t worry Amanda, Al would have loved this.

    posted by Jeannine on 11-18-2006 at 12:18 am

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