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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Pareidolia


A term for seeing things where there are none.

Like this pebble, which is a manuport picked up likely for its aesthetic appeal and strange face-like appearance.



From Wikipedia:

"In his notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci wrote of pareidolia as a device for painters, writing "if you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various different landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys, and various groups of hills. You will also be able to see divers combats and figures in quick movement, and strange expressions of faces, and outlandish costumes, and an infinite number of things which you can then reduce into separate and well conceived forms."

And here, a list of rock formations that look like human beings.

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