My pareidolia knows no bounds.

To me, this all boils down to: "The Devil is in the Details." As a matter of fact, that's what first got me thinking we were dealing with pareidolia. On a couple of occasions, on some of the early images Neil posted in the Faces topic, I would read his assigned name, look at the picture, and think, "wow, that's cool". Then after he published his key or description, I would think, "hunh? that's not what I thought he was talking about." I might totally misinterpret the picture to say be facing the other way, or chin in a different place, or a variety of things like that.

Now, what kind of sense can that possibly make? How could they be real and evoke that kind of response from the viewer, unless of course these Martians are very sneaky. It reminded me of one time I was pointing out the Gorilla to my wife, and she said, "I see a Saint Bernard." And then when she explained it to me, I could see the dog, too.



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Look at your frame of reference photograph at the top of the page. How many faces can you find in it? I see a man at the top right of the water falls. A man and buffalo combined on the left of the waterfalls. A baboon way over to the right, with a bearded man on his head. Many pareidolic faces in the folliage. The list goes on and on. "Their are no facts, merely interpretations." (F. Nietzsche). The thing is all images are saying what they are, to those who can see. If you had to bet and the life of you and your family depended on it, would you honestly bet that these faces were made by martians? i would bet on pareidolia. fred.

Here's a negative of the 2001 Face:

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by pareidoliac</i>
<br />How many faces can you find in it? I see a man at the top right of the water falls. A man and buffalo combined on the left of the waterfalls. A baboon way over to the right, with a bearded man on his head. Many pareidolic faces in the folliage. The list goes on and on. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">About a mile east of where I took this picture, is Yosemite Villiage. You can eat lunch there and you have a good view of this wall and alot more of the south face of the valley. If you sit there, drinking a beer and eating lunch, you can literally find faces galore in the rock walls. We have hundreds of negatives and pictures (from back before the digital camera days)in boxes. One of these days I have to make a concerted effort to look through them and scan any good ones I find.

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Trinket</i>
<br />You may call it paredoia, if you so choose..Me I'll decide what reality is for myself..<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> <blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Most of these are just a couple of indentations in roughly the right places, that can be filled in to make faces of all kinds of shape and size. -rd<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Trinket, if you were to apply the same rules to this image, you could easily find 100 faces. I see them all over the place (we're talking yingyang). I count at least 30 of the simple kind of faces, although someone with a little more imagination might get many more. All you have to do is add your little bit of enhancement. This is one of the side mountains by Mount Ranier in Washington. It's made up of a bunch of rocks that have spewed out of the volcano over the years. I took it myself about 10 years ago. This is a cropping of a much larger picture.

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by rderosa</i>
<br />In other words, by counting features -rd<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Unfortunately, while searching through 100s of old photos, it occurred to me that counting features is not quite good enough. We have to have some other criteria first. Here's an example of a very simple object that is obviously man-made. Is it because the collective knowledge of all mankind knows what this is? Or would a Martian also conclude that this is man-made?

Morty the Snowman:

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