Hidden Pictures

November 3, 2004 11:34 AM

Hidden pictures! In an effort to get back to that "best of the web" thing, here are some cool hidden pictures within pictures. Can you find them all without looking at the answers? (from B3ta)
posted by salmacis (14 comments total)

Those were pretty easy, actually. But thanks for the distraction!
posted by jazon at 11:50 AM on November 3, 2004

What jazon said. Good try!
posted by widdershins at 11:54 AM on November 3, 2004

This is not a distraction, but rather a return.
Thanks salmacis Most of them were easy. The rose one had me lost for a bit, but that had more to me being conditioned to looking for faces. The dolphin had to fin smack me thru the monitor finally.
posted by a3matrix at 11:55 AM on November 3, 2004

Pretty cool but wish they were harder to spot.
posted by Krrrlson at 12:01 PM on November 3, 2004

I remember dozens of similar pictures in the Cole's Funny Picture Book(s) of my youth, except they were etchings or paintings and dated from the first half of last century. It must be immeasurably easier to do these in Photoshop nowadays.
posted by John Shaft at 12:06 PM on November 3, 2004

waaay too easy. the dolphin was the best one.
posted by bob sarabia at 12:19 PM on November 3, 2004

Easy, but that says something about our ability to perceive patterns (especially faces): try to teach a computer to pick out the faces in the rock face picture!
posted by Turtles all the way down at 12:26 PM on November 3, 2004

b3ta, as return to best of the web? i hate to tell you this, but mostly what got posted in mefi's "best of the web days" was boring and self-important web design critiques by the boring, self-important web designers who comprised 90% of the membership.
posted by quonsar at 12:28 PM on November 3, 2004

Ah yes quonsar, but back then, that really WAS the best of the web.. :-)
posted by salmacis at 3:34 PM on November 3, 2004

Easy, but reasonably fun. Once you noticed how to spot one the rest just seemed to jump out.
posted by brettcar at 4:16 PM on November 3, 2004

Sal, thanks !! I liked these. I only found three of the five faces in the rock picture. Did anyone see anything extra in these pictures. In the first one, I can see a little girl in one of the woman's eyes, and a half-hidden little boy standing off to the side. And in the next one, there's an odd-looking teddy-bear-like figure to the left of the man with the fanny pack. And in the tiger picture, I could see a striped leg of a reclining woman, in a rather lascivious position. Or I'm hallucinating, not much sleep last night. Thanks for the distraction. I needed it.
posted by marsha56 at 4:25 PM on November 3, 2004

also check out Scholastic's I Spy site. the books are a hoot too!
posted by mcsweetie at 4:41 PM on November 3, 2004

Ah. I see someone found the digital camera I lost in the woods. Why, what are you all lookin' at?
posted by soyjoy at 9:03 PM on November 3, 2004

This is my all time favorite 'find the face in the picture' picture.
posted by daHIFI at 3:21 PM on November 4, 2004