One Response to “Only after this 80 yr old woman asked me on a date, did it finally occur to me…”

1. Administrator Says:
   April 29th, 2006 at 9:43 am

   “A famous perceptual illusion in which the brain switches between seeing a young girl and an old woman (or “wife” and “mother in law”). An anonymous German postcard from 1888 (left figure) depicts the image in its earliest known form, and a rendition on an advertisement for the Anchor Buggy Company from 1890 (center figure) provides another early example (IllusionWorks). For many years, the creator of this figure was thought to be British cartoonist W. E. Hill, who published it in 1915 in Puck humor magazine, an American magazine inspired by the British magazine Punch. (right figure). However, Hill almost certainly adapted the figure from an original concept that was popular throughout the world on trading and puzzle cards.”

   …For more on the history of this illusion: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/YoungGirl-OldWomanIllusion.html

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