A Dalmatian question. Everyone’s seen the image in which a Dalmatian is present but hard to find. I would like to find a version of that I saw years ago: an image with similar random blotches and blobs that viewers describe as showing various other animals. - ThreadSky

rsek.bsky.social • 92 days ago

A Dalmatian question. Everyone’s seen the image in which a Dalmatian is present but hard to find. I would like to find a version of that I saw years ago: an image with similar random blotches and blobs that viewers describe as showing various other animals.

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galenbrain.bsky.social•92 days ago

bachmichael.bsky.social•92 days ago

that's the cow I meant.

bachmichael.bsky.social•92 days ago

Or Dallenbach's cow?

bachmichael.bsky.social•92 days ago

Are you possibly referring to Mooney Faces?

rsek.bsky.social•92 days ago

No. Someone created an image whose statistics resembled those of the Dalmatian image.

bachmichael.bsky.social•92 days ago

ah, can't remember ever having heard about that.

drchristaylor.bsky.social•92 days ago

I made this for a 2nd-year cognition guest lecture at MAC and asked the class "How many of you see the dog?" and half the students raised their hands.

I can't claim the idea as my own as I swear I had heard someone else had done it before but couldn't locate the image in 2002.

hk-nien.bsky.social•91 days ago

Ummm... where is that dog? The three black dots near the center look a bit like the eyes and nose of a dog, but I don't see a body of a dog.

drchristaylor.bsky.social•91 days ago

Have you seen the illusion before? Here is the original. The version I made for 2nd years had all seen this version in their intro class. I used the image to introduce top-down processing.

hk-nien.bsky.social•91 days ago

In this pic, the dog is obvious to me, but even after priming my perception with it, I don't see any dog in the first image 😅

drchristaylor.bsky.social•91 days ago

That's because there is no dog. :)

aaronhertzmann.bsky.social•92 days ago

Emerging Images by Niloy Mitra et al. (SIGGRAPH Asia 2009)?
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niloy/research/emergence/emergence_image_siga_09.html

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