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cloaked_wolf
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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There's a dancing gorilla in the image below:  How many of you spotted it first time within 10 seconds?
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cloaked_wolf
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Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21466529In all honestly, I didn't spot it until I had it pointed out to me. As a doctor, the black areas don't warrant interest as they're just air. The white/grey areas represent tissue of varying densities which is where cancer is normally found. With CT scans, you look through slices sequentially (easy on a computer - just scroll forwards/backwards with the mouse) and look for changing patterns or anything unusual.
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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I saw the white area as an alien, something akin to the standard Grey alien representation, with a mahoosive cranium. *shrug*
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:59 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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It only took me about a minute 
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:03 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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It took me about 10 seconds. At first I was trying to see a face in the central white area, and there is one if you look. Then the whole thing looks like a face too. But yeah, there's a gorilla there which shouldn't be.
The amount of time it takes to find things like that is very random. There's a game on my phone with similar "puzzles". Sometimes I find the card imediately, but other times I just can't see it. Until I can, and then it's obvious.
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:44 pm |
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Amnesia10
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I did see it but then I was actively looking for it, plus I was doing it systematically so included the black areas.
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:50 pm |
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big_D
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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Me too. And the gorilla, I was thinking, what gorilla, then bing, it was there, about 8 seconds.
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:25 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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And they say no one uses Bing when they're searching for stuff 
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:29 pm |
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm Posts: 7262 Location: Here, but not all there.
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I saw it straight away, say about a second. Whether that was pure luck that my eye happened to rest on it as I began to scan the image, I can't say.
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:52 pm |
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brataccas
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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are you coke-eyed? 
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mikepgood
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:23 pm Posts: 710
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Why, just why?
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:17 pm |
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tombolt
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:38 am Posts: 2967 Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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I couldn't see it, then read the thread, then properly looked. I've seen magic eyes quicker than I saw that.
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Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:59 pm |
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l3v1ck
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More than 10 seconds. First I looked at the picture as a whole as I though you were talking about this kind of illusion, ie an image with an image. Do you see a young woman or an old woman?  Then I started looking for an actual gorilla, but I started at the top left and worked my way down.
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Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:54 am |
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JJW009
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That's what I thought too, hence me finding the strange faces first. People see faces everywhere. With yours, I saw the young woman looking to the left first. Once you've seen one version, it's very hard to see the other one! The linked article explains why.
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davrosG5
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Got it in a couple of seconds - fair leapt off the screen.
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