Putting it there made it too easy. The corners are the first place I look.
It’s right there! Next to the house!
Is that from season 3 of The Next Great Artist?
Can confirm there is actually a cat
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found it in like two seconds
Took me way too long
Yes.
I found
For those struggling get rid of the high frequency information. Easiest way is to increase the viewing distance.
How does that help? There is definitely a tiny cat but can you see a big one after Gaussian blur?
I’m going to plead temporary insanity - I swear I saw a big face when I put it across the room. Now I don’t. 😄
Here’s another example. Look at this grating from several feet away.
Recovered image
Exact 7x7 box blur to remove high-frequency contents, then median blur and contrast increase…
Here’s the original, BTW:
See also author’s notes
There’s so much JPEG artifacting in the original. All of it, and I mean all of it, could have been avoided, at much smaller file size, by using tile size of 16 instead of 15 (ImageMagick’s default
pattern:checkerboard).
(Yes, the sides are off but that’s because I’m on the phone (thanks, Image Toolbox app) and don’t have my usual software. Still, the tiles align with JPEG’s 8x8 blocks (usually 16x16 for chroma but that’s blank here) so they’re all clean, at ⅛ the file size.)
How does it work?
Color variations in white tiles, it seems. When you look close, the brain compares shades of white to the neighboring black. When you look far away, brain focuses on larger patterns.
that’s what it is, I’ve made one before. basically grayscale image faintly on a black and white pattern, doesn’t need to be checkerboard.
Magnets, maybe.
Spray a little water on it and the illusion stops working, so yeah it must be magnets.
That makes the tiny little cat harder to see
There’s a little 😺?
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Top right
This looks like the work of Dudolf, but I can’t find it there.
it cute :3
No. Cats are dumb
