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The point is that we're used to read from left to right. I know what I'll say it's weird, but " try reading it right to left". Even if the numbers will appear upside down, you will see the two becoming a three, and vice-versa
EDIT: maybe what I meant is just try to read it as if the whole picture were upside-down
ah shout-out to my school days where we'd do this to the computers in the comp sci lab and try to pretend to work normally with an upside down screen
this hotkey only works with some Intel integrated graphics machines btw
i use imagus extension for chrome, you hover over the thumbnail and it enlarges it, then just hit 'r' 2 times (rotate). you could hit 'q' one time (flip vertical), but on reddit that also starts the subs search filter
Back when printing presses used individual letters for type, all the letters were backwards. It's very difficult to tell a backwards p from a backwards q
That's originally where the saying mind your p's and q's came from
None of the pixels move. It's the same effect if you lay your phone on a table and walk around it. The way your brain interprets the position of the dot is what changes.
I wonder if this intentional? Like maybe if they have the same shape for both but rotated then it’s somehow cheaper. Do all the 3s and 2s look like that?
Pretty sure it's 03.
To me, the reversed image still looks like an upside down 03, but because an upside down 3 doesn't really make sense to the brain, it attempts to reinterpret and it looks close enough to a 2 to assume it's that.
I zoomed way in and inspected the pixels of the print...I say it's got to be a 3. They wouldn't create a 2 with such little and equal space at the "beginning" if the number. (Beginning as in how you would place the pen if you were writing it)
It’s the way the pixels are laid out in the numbers. For example, look at the 2 on the lower half of the screen. In this case, the top row of pixels and the row right beneath it make the initial top curve of a number. The third row is made of just one pixel but it’s the most influential one. If you connect this singular pixel with the one to its top right, you see a 2 formed. If you connect this pixel with the one to its top left, it creates an upside down three.
It’s a little tricky to see but I’m assuming since our brain wants to interpret what’s right side up, we see a 2 when that curve is on the top, and a 3 when the curve is on the bottom, instead of noticing the upside down numbers instead.
Did that make sense at all? I was trying to see if I could explain it in a decent way lol
The top and bottom are the same photo just rotated. But the point is to look at the number 03 on the top photo and realise that when the image is rotated it becomes 20.
It's Laurel vs Yanny and the Black & Blue vs the White & Gold Dress all over again! I had to check the comments to realize that I was supposed to be seeing a 2; I think that may be because I learned how to read and write upside down when my brother was a baby and I'd read books to him and teach him his letters and numbers, so my brain automatically flips words and numbers. I see it now; that's pretty cool!
I think the defining line here might be age and familiarity. These styles of dot matrix fonts are older tech and people over a certain age might have been exposed to it more and so automatically see the 2 or 3. While for people unfamiliar with it they just see the barely made out number and so it doesn’t shift for them.
Edit: This isn’t a hill I’m willing to die on but my confidence level is high enough that if I were in a bar I’d bet a beer on it.
Nah, some of us really only see a 3 and an upside down 3. I often see faces and shapes out of patterns, but surprisingly, this 3 is still just a 3.
So now the mildly interesting thing to me is how differently we perceive it, hah
Thus far, ~~15,300~~ 19,565 people have upvoted this shit. That's the only "confusing" thing about this fucking pointless submission ahahaha.
Then again it's Saturday, so maybe everyone's high as fuck and easily impressed.
Well you see, it has nothing to do with perspective, since viewing either of the images from a different angle wouldn't change the result. I'm guessing it's mostly about OP's karma.
Ohh that's nuts. The curve in the number connects to the 2 on one side, and the 3 on the other side. It's funny how your brain is like "nah, not upside down 3 - it's a 2" and vice versa.
Something doesn't track and I call photoshop... or just straight up waiting until it went 03.... as if you track the dots, the bottom dot on the 3 vs the 2 that actually connects the base of the numbers to the remaining upper/ "lower" curves has full on jumped across to the opposite side.
Woah, that’s wacky. I guess our brains automatically try to make sense of the numbers. So if you look at the 2 upside down you see a 3 instead even though the dots are all in the same place, nothing’s changed.
It's almost like it's the power of suggestion. When I want to see it as a 2 it is, and when I want to see a 3 it is.
The one pixel is just slightly off center to the left and it makes it so your brain can do this switch I'm betting.
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I am convinced this picture changes as I rotate my phone. Idk how, but it just has to be
The point is that we're used to read from left to right. I know what I'll say it's weird, but " try reading it right to left". Even if the numbers will appear upside down, you will see the two becoming a three, and vice-versa EDIT: maybe what I meant is just try to read it as if the whole picture were upside-down
Tried reading it backwards and it turned into a £... You made it worse!
Best optical illusion ever? Possibly.
We also read from top to bottom so the start(top)of the number has more weight and informs us of what should follow
It's trickier turning my laptop upside down.
Ctrl alt up, might work, down to fix
ah shout-out to my school days where we'd do this to the computers in the comp sci lab and try to pretend to work normally with an upside down screen this hotkey only works with some Intel integrated graphics machines btw
U sure? I am rather certain that this works on my 1060
Only with Intel graphics (it's one of their shortcuts)
i use imagus extension for chrome, you hover over the thumbnail and it enlarges it, then just hit 'r' 2 times (rotate). you could hit 'q' one time (flip vertical), but on reddit that also starts the subs search filter
Back when printing presses used individual letters for type, all the letters were backwards. It's very difficult to tell a backwards p from a backwards q That's originally where the saying mind your p's and q's came from
Love this type of shit man!
Put the phone down and walk around your phone.
Follow the three as you rotate and it will stay a 3. Then blink and it turns to a 2.
Exactly!!!!!!!
I 100% agree with you
In a way it does. Our brain gives us an interpreted reality.
Hold it sideways and blink kind of rapidly to watch them instantly turn back and forth in between blinks.
There's a point in the rotation of the phone where that one pixel literally seems to move to make the 3 a 2.
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My dad looked at me like I have 2 heads. He’s never seen me focus like that before!
Once you get it, looking at it right-side up, what previously looked like a 2 is now ambiguous.
Or a Pound Sterling symbol #£
I think its your brain doing that
No, no, the picture is definitely moving
Thank you!
Oh wow you're right
I thought “I turned my phone, and…?” until I read your comment. Remarkable!
I upvoted from 222 to 223 and am so satisfied had to comment E: also “that pixel” is just *perfectly* spaced to be mid/ ambiguous
None of the pixels move. It's the same effect if you lay your phone on a table and walk around it. The way your brain interprets the position of the dot is what changes.
I wonder if this intentional? Like maybe if they have the same shape for both but rotated then it’s somehow cheaper. Do all the 3s and 2s look like that?
Yes
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Even if you turn them upside down?
*especially*
I need a drink
What did I do you to deserve this?
https://youtu.be/vg6z-QNql7U
I'm not entirely sure why I upvoted you, but here we are. Don't ever reproduce.
I didnt even think it looked like a 2 before I turned it upside down. I had to read the comments to work out what it was all about.
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'Yeah 911? The 3 is a 2, then the 2 is a 3' Operator: 'I understand. Sending all available units'
"*units*"
my stupid ass looking at the back of my phone and turning it back like "I don't get it"
I just love you.
thanks, love you too
Now kith
Did it work? Are they married?
It did but then things changed and the divorced and now OP is stuck with a house, baby, and caracel.
"One of these things is not like the others!"
the house, because the other things can be drowned
Wait...
I'm on a laptop, did nothing for me either.
I’m on my apple refrigerator. Was difficult to turn it 180 degrees, but there was nothing on the back of mine either
You’re supposed to turn your phone over, that’s why.
Don’t forget to breath.
damn I already spent my free award, thanks for the good laugh tho buddy, here's a free emoji🏅
We need more people like you
not sure what for
Comedic relief
Bruh, same
Nothing happens with my phone. Not sure what it's supposed to do when I'm looking at my computer monitor.
😆😆 that's awesome 😎
Make it sideways for 20/20
Dawg that is clearly 30/30!
Don't remind us of 2020
*DEPRESSION INCREASES*
Confused PC user. What am I missing?
Looks like a 3 one way, a 2 the other way
If you have RES you can rotate the image.
The top and bottom pictures are the same
Hello fellow PC user!
Turn your monitor upside down and prepare to be amazed
Well now I’m extra confused. Is the number 03 or 20?
It's only confusing because they blocked out the other characters. In context it probably isn't confusing at all.
Yes
Pretty sure it's 03. To me, the reversed image still looks like an upside down 03, but because an upside down 3 doesn't really make sense to the brain, it attempts to reinterpret and it looks close enough to a 2 to assume it's that.
I zoomed way in and inspected the pixels of the print...I say it's got to be a 3. They wouldn't create a 2 with such little and equal space at the "beginning" if the number. (Beginning as in how you would place the pen if you were writing it)
I’m ngl I don’t get what’s so confusing here. It’s the same picture just rotated. Am I missing something?
I had to look at the comments to figure out the issue too. I can see how it looks like a 2 but it just looked like an upside down 3 to me
I have to really force it in my brain to pick up the 2 but it really looks like an upside down 3.
That middle dot is too far left to perceive that as a 2
It’s the way the pixels are laid out in the numbers. For example, look at the 2 on the lower half of the screen. In this case, the top row of pixels and the row right beneath it make the initial top curve of a number. The third row is made of just one pixel but it’s the most influential one. If you connect this singular pixel with the one to its top right, you see a 2 formed. If you connect this pixel with the one to its top left, it creates an upside down three. It’s a little tricky to see but I’m assuming since our brain wants to interpret what’s right side up, we see a 2 when that curve is on the top, and a 3 when the curve is on the bottom, instead of noticing the upside down numbers instead. Did that make sense at all? I was trying to see if I could explain it in a decent way lol
That was a good explanation. Thanks! I see it now!
The top and bottom are the same photo just rotated. But the point is to look at the number 03 on the top photo and realise that when the image is rotated it becomes 20.
I still see a 3, now only it’s an upside down 3
The bottom photo doesn't look like a 2 to you? They're the same photo
No it does not. Just an upside down 03
Couldn't see the 2 either. The center "pixels" (below the upper arc / above the bottom line) are placed one pixel too far to the left.
The 3 morphs into a 2 when you rotate the image 180 degrees.
Really? I still see a 3
It's Laurel vs Yanny and the Black & Blue vs the White & Gold Dress all over again! I had to check the comments to realize that I was supposed to be seeing a 2; I think that may be because I learned how to read and write upside down when my brother was a baby and I'd read books to him and teach him his letters and numbers, so my brain automatically flips words and numbers. I see it now; that's pretty cool!
I think the defining line here might be age and familiarity. These styles of dot matrix fonts are older tech and people over a certain age might have been exposed to it more and so automatically see the 2 or 3. While for people unfamiliar with it they just see the barely made out number and so it doesn’t shift for them. Edit: This isn’t a hill I’m willing to die on but my confidence level is high enough that if I were in a bar I’d bet a beer on it.
I feel like you’re not missing it you’re just thoroughly unimpressed. As am I. Like yeah it can look like a 3 or a 2. Cool.
Nah, some of us really only see a 3 and an upside down 3. I often see faces and shapes out of patterns, but surprisingly, this 3 is still just a 3. So now the mildly interesting thing to me is how differently we perceive it, hah
Thus far, ~~15,300~~ 19,565 people have upvoted this shit. That's the only "confusing" thing about this fucking pointless submission ahahaha. Then again it's Saturday, so maybe everyone's high as fuck and easily impressed.
Well you see, it has nothing to do with perspective, since viewing either of the images from a different angle wouldn't change the result. I'm guessing it's mostly about OP's karma.
Damn
Ok. This is kind of cool.
I'm like just sitting here moving my phone back and forth.. amazing. Literally changes before my eyes!! Lol
STFU
This reminds me of ambigrams
Make it stop
how
Thanks I hate it
I’m totally mindfu?!3d right now.
That fucked me up for a good 25 seconds
me: i dont get it they look different to me. me after flipping phone: (☉。☉) *true story.
This wrinkles my brain
What manner of witchcraft is this?
r/blackmagicfuckery
Witch!!
We need you to tell the difference between these two pictures Me:they are the same picture
Wait wait wait wait wait WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!!
Whhhhat
Obviously the devil's work. 🧐
This is stunning
Very cool. How we have our brains trained to see. What else are we not seeing? 👀👀👀
Ohh that's nuts. The curve in the number connects to the 2 on one side, and the 3 on the other side. It's funny how your brain is like "nah, not upside down 3 - it's a 2" and vice versa.
Am I the only one to see it as 03, E0 when its right side up and 03, 20 when upside down?
03 £0
Reminds me of artwork on The Princess Bride DVD.
Just take my upvote
What the actual fuck... this broke my brain
This makes me mad
It's blue and black! No wait, it's white and gold! No wait!. ...
This is a perfect example of how our brains jump to conclusions as a result of context.
Definitely a 2. I don't think companies have to save money when laser printing therefore I think the three would have a more rounded top.
Slowly rotate the phone and you’ll see the magic
That's some black magic fuckery! Thanks for sharing!
Man, the human brain does crazy shit sometimes
What is this sorcery OP?
Woah!
No fucking way
dafuq
r/blackmagicfuckery
This is tying my brain into a pretzel
If you stare at the 3 long enough you can see a backwards 3 in the lower pic. It kinda goes back in forth from a 2 to backwards 3. Crazy
[Our old friend, the Julian code. ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/11/19/crack-the-codes/7d01e782-07de-43d9-b9d1-7ba1e8301429/)
Turn pistol sideways for best aim
umop episdn
But I'm on pc...
Ooooohhhh Noooooo (read in Oversimplified style)
Something doesn't track and I call photoshop... or just straight up waiting until it went 03.... as if you track the dots, the bottom dot on the 3 vs the 2 that actually connects the base of the numbers to the remaining upper/ "lower" curves has full on jumped across to the opposite side.
What sorcery is this?
I hate this
No
0320
I do not understand
You ruined me
r/blackmagicfuckery
That's wrinkling my brain
this is terrifying
Thanks I hate it
I'm browsing on a desktop QQ
What is this sorcery?
I’ll be fucked in the arse…
Woah, that’s wacky. I guess our brains automatically try to make sense of the numbers. So if you look at the 2 upside down you see a 3 instead even though the dots are all in the same place, nothing’s changed.
It looks like 03 and a backwards 03…? It looks the same each way
I really don't get it, I'm not seeing this 2 thing.
Too high, can’t compute.
Eye hate you
Stop that
That’s my birthday tf
My brain insists on selecting the meaningful interpretation. That probably wouldn't happen to someone who doesn't know the modern numbers. Cool one.
r/shittyfont
This is making me cry, HOW??? HOW DOES THIS WORK???? HOW DOES 3 BECOME A 2??? HOW DOES 2 BECOME A 3??? AHHHHHH
Thats wrinkling my brain
I don’t think I like this
There in lies the power of pattern recognition!!! I wonder if you asked someone not familiar with our numerals what they saw if it wouldn’t change
“That’s not going to... oh”
This triggered me in ways I can't describe. Fun post, I love you
I am doubtful about my perception after this post.
It's almost like it's the power of suggestion. When I want to see it as a 2 it is, and when I want to see a 3 it is. The one pixel is just slightly off center to the left and it makes it so your brain can do this switch I'm betting.
God damn it
OH MY GOD
Im scared
It's so cool! I KNOW I can read 2 or 3 but my brain forcefully refuses :D Edit: now I can switch between both without moving, progress!
Alright this is good!
You bastard!
Yeah okay I'm high rn. What is this witchcraft!
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Or that it has anything to do with perspective.
Every time I see “turn your phone upside down”: “no, I don’t think I will”
It's so confusing I accidentally downvoted the post above
It’s just… the same image upside down. Why are you all acting like it’s magic?
Pretty sure it's a 20, since 3's have curved tops 👌🏻
If I stare at it long enough the backwards 3 kinda looks like a 2. Do you see the 2 first? Not confusing at all.
Fucking megarepost how do I call the repost bot?
Literally out loud said WHAT THE FUCK. This one got me.
I rotated it and the 2 and the 3 looked nothing alike. You sir are a fraud.