Here is another wonderful illustration from artist Ruby Rust….can you spot the lion?
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It seems a bit too forced. The lion is easily spotted while the zebra parts that actually make up the lion features are harder to spot. Nice but forced work. There are many others that work way more smooth.
A conjunction of my screen/browser configuration and the design of your page meant I only saw part of the picture at first glance so it was impossible to miss!
I surrender. Nowhere among all zebra stripes is “the lion” written. And I thought I’d got a hang of it after the business with the tiger.
At least there I could see a tiger in the leaves. The fact that so few others saw it just proved I have special gifts. The message in the stripes was just a decoy to separate the gullible from the chosen ones.
So the quest goes on. The lion like decoy has been found by the masses but “the lion” must be cunningly and subliminally hidden at a deeper level. Only to be found by he or she who is worthy … I’m not.
Oh, and I’m not at all bitter for being completely fooled by the tiger illusion. Not at all. Not a bit. I promise … really, I do.
As soon as I spotted the lion – in about 2 seconds flat – found it near impossible to pay any attention to the zebras, unless it was to notice the ‘mutant’ parts of them which form bits of the lion.
I wonder if the size of the image has any bearing on its difficulty. As a 4-inch by 5-inch image on my screen, all the stripes and grass just looks like noise to my eyes, and it makes it much easier to see the lion image. But I can imagine it being more difficult to see if it was a 5-foot wide painting hanging on the wall, and you were only 4 feet away from it.
The first thing I noticed was the zebra chest wierdness that makes up the lions mouth. As soon as I pulled back a little it resolved itself into the lion.
July 7, 2009 at 6:54 am |
I see it.
July 7, 2009 at 7:02 am |
Yes.
July 7, 2009 at 7:09 am |
i saw the lion before i saw the zebras
July 7, 2009 at 9:33 am
me too!
July 7, 2009 at 9:44 am
So did I
July 7, 2009 at 11:21 pm
me too, I can’t NOT see the lion
July 7, 2009 at 8:12 am |
Got it instantly, whereas I failed with the zebra.
July 7, 2009 at 8:38 am |
Conclusion: Lions are much easier to spot than tigers
July 7, 2009 at 9:10 am |
It took about 5 seconds, but now I can’t look at the picture *without* seeing the lion.
July 7, 2009 at 9:13 am |
You are what you eat.
July 7, 2009 at 9:14 am |
I saw them both at the same time, noticing more detail of the zebras but my attention being captured more by the lion.
July 7, 2009 at 9:15 am |
very easy. i saw a lion before i saw zebra’s. so, in less then a second.
July 7, 2009 at 9:18 am |
Easy to do because of the eyes. The blue/green one was the best!
July 7, 2009 at 9:33 am |
It’s not even clever! The eyes are just a lion’s eyes in the middle of some grass!
July 7, 2009 at 9:39 am
Actually, if you look closer, they’re the Zebra’s ears.
July 7, 2009 at 9:34 am |
It seems a bit too forced. The lion is easily spotted while the zebra parts that actually make up the lion features are harder to spot. Nice but forced work. There are many others that work way more smooth.
July 7, 2009 at 9:36 am |
Took some time to see it, but once I saw it there was no way to not see it anymore.
July 7, 2009 at 9:44 am |
This one seems too easy.
July 7, 2009 at 9:50 am |
this one was easy =)
July 7, 2009 at 9:52 am |
A conjunction of my screen/browser configuration and the design of your page meant I only saw part of the picture at first glance so it was impossible to miss!
July 7, 2009 at 10:05 am |
I immediately saw something else was in the picture. When I read the text, after I read the word lion I instantly saw it.
July 7, 2009 at 10:55 am |
Yep, I saw the lion straight away – much easier than the tiger one.
July 7, 2009 at 11:14 am |
Took me a while to see the lion’s eyes were zebra ears.
July 7, 2009 at 11:35 am |
Immediately.
At last…
July 7, 2009 at 11:41 am |
First thing I saw was the lion’s eyes.
July 7, 2009 at 12:10 pm |
Yep, spotted it in about 5 secs. The ears of the zebra really gave it away due to their unnatural position.
July 7, 2009 at 12:14 pm |
i can c 2 lion……can any of u c it???
July 7, 2009 at 12:42 pm |
I surrender. Nowhere among all zebra stripes is “the lion” written. And I thought I’d got a hang of it after the business with the tiger.
At least there I could see a tiger in the leaves. The fact that so few others saw it just proved I have special gifts. The message in the stripes was just a decoy to separate the gullible from the chosen ones.
So the quest goes on. The lion like decoy has been found by the masses but “the lion” must be cunningly and subliminally hidden at a deeper level. Only to be found by he or she who is worthy … I’m not.
Oh, and I’m not at all bitter for being completely fooled by the tiger illusion. Not at all. Not a bit. I promise … really, I do.
July 7, 2009 at 12:45 pm |
Like others, I saw the lion first – so less than a second. But there’s a reason got that….
July 7, 2009 at 1:00 pm |
yesssss!!!
July 7, 2009 at 1:21 pm |
As soon as I spotted the lion – in about 2 seconds flat – found it near impossible to pay any attention to the zebras, unless it was to notice the ‘mutant’ parts of them which form bits of the lion.
July 7, 2009 at 1:44 pm |
Saw in about half a second. The eyes are the massive giveaway.
July 7, 2009 at 1:49 pm |
yes – the eyes give it away!
July 7, 2009 at 2:17 pm |
Saw the lion’s eyes and mane first, then the zebras.
July 7, 2009 at 2:35 pm |
Saw it straight away.
July 7, 2009 at 4:12 pm |
Like others, saw it before I saw the zebras. Could be normal, could be my obsession with anything feline.
July 7, 2009 at 8:04 pm |
Reminds me of the classic Find The Spam.
http://www.smalltime.com/findthespam.html
-Matt
July 7, 2009 at 8:12 pm |
haha, i saw the lion before i finished reading “can you spot the lion?”
July 7, 2009 at 8:18 pm |
I wonder if the size of the image has any bearing on its difficulty. As a 4-inch by 5-inch image on my screen, all the stripes and grass just looks like noise to my eyes, and it makes it much easier to see the lion image. But I can imagine it being more difficult to see if it was a 5-foot wide painting hanging on the wall, and you were only 4 feet away from it.
July 7, 2009 at 11:26 pm |
The first thing I noticed was the zebra chest wierdness that makes up the lions mouth. As soon as I pulled back a little it resolved itself into the lion.
July 7, 2009 at 11:54 pm |
That’s interesting. On the small shot before I opened the main blog, I could see the lion perfectly, but on the larger it’s less distinct.
July 8, 2009 at 6:15 am |
I saw the lion before the zebras instantly.
July 8, 2009 at 7:16 am |
straight away
July 8, 2009 at 9:22 am |
Its funny – very quick – the lion really leapt out at me
July 9, 2009 at 1:27 am |
Yep, saw it right away. Much easier than the tiger one.
July 10, 2009 at 1:22 am |
Not really an ‘illusion’ is it?, just two images merged together and tweaked a little.
October 12, 2009 at 10:15 pm |
It took me less than a fraction of a second to find it.
October 20, 2009 at 12:58 pm |
awesome drawing though! Must take a great deal of skill to draw it.
http://www.ukpaintball.co.uk