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Distorted Celebrity Faces Illusion

By Rob Gonda · 29 April 2025 · 1 min read

Distorted Celebrity Faces Illusion

Like many interesting scientific discoveries, this one was an accident. Sean Murphy, an undergraduate student, was working alone in the lab on a set of faces for one of his experiments. He aligned a set of faces at the eyes and started to skim through them. After a few seconds, he noticed that some of the faces began to appear highly deformed and grotesque. He called it the “Flashed Face Distortion Effect”.

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