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	The monna lisa illusion

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11-16-2008 5:41 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/93ed3de4-d2f1-4e64-86ba-e2f523596331/4EEC86F1-7744-40CC-9642-4CED687AFBB6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html" href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.exploratorium.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.exploratorium.edu/img/96C86958-D957-4C5C-90F0-6CB9F3B3AC28" alt="Mona" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><FONT face="Arial" size="-1">(Also called "Monna Lisa" or "La Gioconda" in Italy)</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.exploratorium.edu/img/A308404E-7E48-4F48-8AA0-C82C0649F4B6" alt="To Do and Notice" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><DIV>
                Look at these two upside-down pictures of Mona Lisa.
                </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.exploratorium.edu/img/9B42CA62-680C-4345-A91B-8FDAB58663A1" alt="Mona Lisa 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><FONT face="Arial">Now look at the same images right side up. (Turn your monitor upside-down if you don't believe us!)
                </FONT>
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.exploratorium.edu/img/638F300D-5B7E-4BBF-9552-CF9BBCF709A2" alt="Mona Lisa 2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.exploratorium.edu/img/EC43B449-16A9-4D85-95AD-17F2A399DF08" alt="What's Going On?" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><FONT face="Arial">                You probably recognized Mona Lisa right away--even upside-down. 
                Two upside-down Monas may look strange (one perhaps stranger than 
                the other), but turn them right-side-up and one looks normal, 
                the other grotesque. Why the surprising difference? 
                </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><FONT face="Arial"> Since an upside-down face is not a familiar point of view, 
                  you may not have noticed that one of these pictures has been 
                  altered. In the right-hand photo, Mona's eyes and mouth have 
                  been turned around. It's only when the photos are turned right-side-up, 
                  and the view is more familiar, that you notice the real distortion. 
                </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/mona.html"><P><FONT face="Arial"><IMG height="11" width="89" alt="Do it Yourself" src="http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/../images/do_it_yourself.gif" />

Since you are obviously using a computer to view this, you may 
                  have access to photo-processing software and image-capture hardware. 
                  Try to capture your own face and flip the eyes and mouth. 
                </FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4EEC86F1-7744-40CC-9642-4CED687AFBB6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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