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Intergalactic Christopher Walken illusion

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Vurdlak on the Mighty Optical Illusion blog writes - "This ubercool Illusion of Christopher Walken flying through space is our newest submission. Beleive it or not, this magical "animated" illusion is a composition of only four frames. The second two are just color-inverted originals (with small modification in shiftment from the original). It gives you opinnion Chris is drifting through galaxy, while in fact he's just leaning milimeter back and fourth for our photo-session" - Link. Looks pretty easy to make your own, but it's hard to top an intergalactic Walken.

Note: Vurdlak sent in an updated (and correct description).

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Posted by: greyPilgrim on April 5, 2006 at 6:50 AM

It's actually four(4) images. The positive gets 2 frames, and the negative gets 2 frames. In each frame, both Walken and the background shift slightly. I think the real illusion is that it seems continuous.

Posted by: jforsythe38 on April 5, 2006 at 6:55 AM

I've seen this on YTMND.com... I hope that's the original author submitting that or there is going to be some angry peeps knocking on MAKE's door. :(

Posted by: nitr0burn on April 5, 2006 at 7:04 AM

Yeah, it DOES shift.

Posted by: greyPilgrim on April 5, 2006 at 9:48 AM

Ok, so now the description has been updated without indicating an update, thereby making the commenters look dumb for pointing out the obvious.

Posted by: philliptorrone on April 5, 2006 at 10:02 AM

yah, i couldn't update the update - we're having issues today, sorry.

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