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Boro
MemberUmmmm Wtf? is this some kind f illusion or is it only that scary face xD
Narji
MemberI think it is an Optional Illusion, since the picture we see from the thumbnail is acctually there but yet not XD
Tsukiyomaru0
MemberSpread the word
SagaDarvulia
MemberI knew there was something funny going on when I read "Cupcake?"...
captain awesome
Membertried adjusting the briteness. didn't work
Meldoron
MemberOpening it with most of my programs I can see the cupcake side of the image, but I'm not exactly the geek to figure it out normally...
dontjudgeme
Memberthe fuck is this? i can see the normal image with every programm, just not here on the interwebs..
kaomera
MemberIt's probably an animated .png, as that image format is generally only supported by a few web-browsers at this point...
pelleelle
Memberwhatever you do, dont lean the screan back D:
Meex
MemberIiiiiiiii'm not getting it.
Pelleelle, I would say you got me, but it actually does look way scarrier that way.l....
Meex
Memberoh wait, nvm, it's the dif between the thumbnail and the pic.
Marcusmccloud
MemberDid anyone else hear TFS Popo saying "Hiiiiiiii" when they saw this image?
Falord
Memberpost #138804
night bandit
MemberI c wut u did thar...
The picture compressed into a thumbnail is shown as RD and AJ.
While if the picture is expanded, the black lines over-show the picture.
Right?...
Chessax
PrivilegedPretty sure this is not an animation and doesn't seem to be an optical illusion either, no mind tricks going on as the pattern of the "cupcake ponies" is simply too faint (less than one percent intensity). Most likely taking advantage of some property of the PNG format and I'm quite intrigued of how they managed to create the effect to be honest.
SodaJerk72
Memberthats actually some impressive work
user 372787
MemberDoes the "tag what you see" rule apply here?
Rendering
MemberI neeeed to know how they did this
user 431006
Memberscared tf out of me :(
lurkbbs
MemberSudden answer out of nowhere!
First thing, that's png image. Besides pixels, it contains long forgotten thing like gamma correction. In short, the lower the this gamma correction number, the darker the image, change is not linear. That is, bright dots lose brightness much slowly than dark ones. So by applying slightly brighter image (Pinkie smile) on top of already bright one(Dash and Jack) and then gamma correcting it we should have that applied image (and invitation to a party). Details on Wikipedia and Duckduckgoogle.
Now the fun part. Most tools don't apply gamma correction on stored pixels nor do they copy gamma correction value to the preview png file, so after resizing, gamma is lost. But browsers ( and some viewers like Imagine) do. You can open it Gimp/Photoshop/Irfanview and move gamma value to check it yourself with original file.
nijality
Memberyeah look at it with sample size850 px
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