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RetuenOfDevsman
04/19/24 1:08:39 PM
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It should seem to me, if the subject is looking directly out of the painting, you'd have to be directly in front of it to make eye contact. But that's not how it works. If you strafe, they're still making eye contact.

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Cheater87
04/19/24 1:14:25 PM
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They are haunted!

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Were_Wyrm
04/19/24 1:16:03 PM
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Witchcraft

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UnsteadyOwl
04/19/24 1:18:20 PM
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With a photo it's because part of the person's soul is trapped in it, obvs

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tomcatobitrice
04/20/24 1:08:47 AM
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UnsteadyOwl posted...
With a photo it's because part of the person's soul is trapped in it, obvs


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Kai_Laguna
04/20/24 1:18:12 AM
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
It should seem to me, if the subject is looking directly out of the painting, you'd have to be directly in front of it to make eye contact. But that's not how it works. If you strafe, they're still making eye contact.
It's called the Mona Lisa Illusion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa#The_Mona_Lisa_illusion
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W_S_C_M
04/20/24 1:39:09 AM
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They only make eye contact if you look at them


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RetuenOfDevsman
04/20/24 12:08:48 PM
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Kai_Laguna posted...
It's called the Mona Lisa Illusion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa#The_Mona_Lisa_illusion
I do seem to remember hearing a long time ago that the Mona Lisa tracks you wherever you go. I remember even then, as like a four-year-old, wondering how that was different from any other painting.

Anyway, I'm hoping there's an explanation for it.

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Guide
04/20/24 12:18:38 PM
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There's no curvature to a flat painting like with an actual eye, all you're going see from an angle is still a face looking directly at you, but "compressed". Also, we're humans and have a lot of built-in programming in regards to facial recognition, so we're gonna have weirdness about it sometimes.

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RetuenOfDevsman
04/20/24 12:23:08 PM
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Guide posted...
There's no curvature to a flat painting like with an actual eye, all you're going see from an angle is still a face looking directly at you, but "compressed". Also, we're humans and have a lot of built-in programming in regards to facial recognition, so we're gonna have weirdness about it sometimes.
Makes sense.

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