{"id":257,"date":"2007-09-22T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2007-09-22T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T21:46:00","slug":"the-cloning-machine-has-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/the-cloning-machine-has-gone-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloning Machine Has Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zounds! Even more rogue clones!<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/mixingmemory\/AntisBlairIllusion.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>Actually,this is from an article on Mixing Memory about how  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/mixingmemory\/2007\/09\/cool_visual_illusions_the_tony.php\">you can get an illusion analogous to the Thatcher illusion with negatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Again, these two pairs of faces are the same, except the top two are negatives. The one on the top-left (a) is the pure negative, which Antis describes as being &#8220;analogous to an upside-down face.&#8221; The one on the top-right (b) is negative except for the eyes and teeth, which are positive. This is analogous to the &#8220;Thatcherized&#8221; face (the one with the inverted mouth and eyes). The bottom two faces were created by reversing the contrast of the top two faces. Thus the bottom-left face (c) is normal, and the bottom-right face (d) is normal except for negative teeth and yes. Now the contrast between the positive face with two negative features makes for a hideous, zombie-like ex-PM (I keep waiting for lightning bolts to come out of his eyes), not unlike the upright Thatcherized face in its grotesqueness. And that&#8217;s the Tony Blair illusion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moillusions.com\/2006\/09\/margaret-thatcher-illusion.html\">Margaret Thatcher illusion<\/a> is just as startling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look at the image below. You will notice some little differences, but they hardly trigger your brain to notice them&#8230; but wait! If we flip this same image, you will see the differences are anything, but &#8220;unnoticable&#8221;!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/uploaded_images\/thatcher-illusion-768783.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/uploaded_images\/thatcher-illusion-768777.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m told the judges would also have accepted &#8220;Proof Tony Blair is a Vampire&#8221; or &#8220;Famous British Politicains Get Possessed&#8221; as titles for this post.<br \/>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zounds! Even more rogue clones!Actually,this is from an article on Mixing Memory about how you can get an illusion analogous to the Thatcher illusion with negatives. Again, these two pairs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intelligence","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}