An optical illusion featuring the photo of a tiger is making the rounds on social media, where internet users are being asked to find a second “hidden” big cat. However, most people are stunned and can’t find the second feline in the picture. This is because they try to look at the bust landscape behind the tiger to see another one hiding, while the solution is a lot simpler than it first appears.
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The answer actually lies in the stripes of the tiger, with the stripes spelling out the words “The Hidden Tiger”. If you take a closer look at the front leg, body and hind leg of the tiger, you can see the writing with the “second tiger”.
Optical illusion is a mainstay in modern internet culture with many photos being shared and reviewed by people online. There is even a website for these illusions with a contest every year. According to the website of the Best Illusion Of The Year Contest, the event is a celebration of illusions and perception, “created by the ingenuity of the world’s greatest illusion makers”. The site further states that “visual scientists, ophthalmologists, neurologists and artists make up the illusion community”.
The competition is an initiative of the Neural Correlate Society (NCS), a non-profit organization that aims to promote scientific research “into the neural correlates of perception and cognition”. According to the website, the organization serves “a community of perception scientists, ophthalmologists, neurologists and artists who use various methods to discover the foundations of illusory perception.”
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