• 58008@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I have no idea what this is supposed to be/do. I see 4 silver forks on a purple towel. Is there something reflected in the metal of the forks?

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Some people can’t see the forks until they are told that this is forks. To me it looked like some weird purple things in maybe an industrial setting, being dipped in something. Until I read forks in the comments, then the background and foreground reversed for me and I immediately saw the forks.

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        23 days ago

        Exactly the same for me here, industrial setting and all. Now I cannot see at all what I first saw and the forks and towel are obvious.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        23 days ago

        It looked to me like dripping dollops of some kind of purple substance running down maybe a translucent surface, then I looked at the top and my brain recognized the tines and the image sort of popped inside out and yeah I can’t bring back the “original” image.

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          23 days ago

          I can see the original weird purple things if I scroll down to cut off the tines and then slowly bring it back up to the full picture. Brains are fun.

  • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    I never saw this as anything other than forks on a purple towel. I have no idea what else it could be. I was thinking maybe it was supposed to be like that plates illusion, one of the forks would be “backwards” and once you saw the backwards one all the others would flip to match it, or something like that. But reading the comments here, clearly I was supposed to see something else entirely and then it would change to forks. But, uh, yeah, that never happened, it was just forks.

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      23 days ago

      This is what I saw first. Not that it made sense, but I was having trouble seeing what it was

    • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social
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      23 days ago

      I saw this picture a while ago :3… all I can see is forks, but apparently some people see the purple towel as bumps or something? I couldn’t get it to work

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        23 days ago

        Didn’t see the forks until you said it and I really looked. All I saw were the purple things. I thought they were being dipped (like the way gloves are made).

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          23 days ago

          Oh wow, yeah, I couldn’t see the forks at all until I read this. Even reading the message above, I thought I was just seeing the tips of the forks that I thought were out of frame

          I can still mostly see what I originally saw by defocusing my eyes though (looking “through the picture” like with those stereograms thing)

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        23 days ago

        The purple towel/negative space kinda looks like a carrot to me.

        Other than that, i got nothin’.

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      23 days ago

      Oh thank you! I could only see the forks, but with your comment I was able to refocus somehow and put the purple in front. Kinda like a magic eye I guess. Weird image.

      I think imagining the darker part of the forks as being a road outside a window helps me the most.