IS IT STILL THERE??

15 years ago
Most disconcerting
implementation
of "xeyes" ever.
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Current Music: The Epoxies -- Stop Looking at Me ♬

23 Responses:

  1. whumpdotcom says:
    15 years ago at 1:16 pm

    Out of the uncanny valley and into who knows what.
  2. stu_hacking says:
    15 years ago at 1:17 pm

    positively frightening. Xeyes never suddenly looked right at me before.

    I am reminded of Black Hole Sun for some reason.
  3. barbedwirekiss says:
    15 years ago at 1:19 pm

    Fire up Winamp. Start off a Motorhead/GnR/Iron Maiden track. Move the mouse up and down the screen.

    DOOD! SHE'S HEADBANGING! *grin*
  4. skreidle says:
    15 years ago at 1:20 pm

    It's beyond the UV until she smiles--then it's just creepy.
  5. dr_memory says:
    15 years ago at 1:46 pm

    I keep expecting her to turn inside-out a la the dog at the beginning of "The Thing".
  6. faceted_jacinth says:
    15 years ago at 1:51 pm

    I believe that if or when someone crossbreeds it with this pic:... then our brainz would be fried for real.(don't know the original source, caption reads like "stoned again bastard" in Russian).
    • fu3dotorg says:
      15 years ago at 2:21 pm

      Thanks for the Russian sighttest; our eyes will remain skewed throughout the rest of the show now.

      Taking Your idea further; how about a device that simulates how flies see, (or any other >2-eyed cretin?)

      Best effect if seeing from 'the inside-out,' and completely covering your field of vision much like a VR device or full-facial goggle.

      I'd buy one.
      • faceted_jacinth says:
        15 years ago at 2:32 pm

        Actually, I believe that this strange effect results from the conflict between the normal image recognition pathway and the part of the brain that recognizes faces, which in this case strongly feels that this is a face (assigning high weight to its own output), but then predictably fails to match patterns and stuff, literally yielding FAIL out loud.
        • fu3dotorg says:
          15 years ago at 6:06 pm

          Yeah, although the eyes alone seem to be the big problem. The mouth and even the facial properties as a whole sorta land on the obscure side, it terms of automatical attraction.
          • anyfoo says:
            15 years ago at 6:59 pm

            I disagree a bit, because, albeit dramatically lower, I still get a pretty significant amount of the effect by looking just at the lower half of her face (just scroll your browser window).

            and, to faceted_jacinth: that is actually a very good explanation. I know nothing about neuroscience and can't say anything about its validity, but your theory sounds very probable!
            • fu3dotorg says:
              15 years ago at 4:37 pm

              Sorry, you're right. By cutting the image just above the nose-bridge, the mouth will produce the same effect, right on. :)
    • lafinjack says:
      15 years ago at 5:52 pm

  7. ultranurd says:
    15 years ago at 4:47 pm

    I'd suggest Visine, but I don't think it would make her zombie eyes any less freaky.
  8. lafinjack says:
    15 years ago at 5:53 pm

    When I first saw this I was disappointed she wouldn't go crosseyed.
  9. frandroid says:
    15 years ago at 6:46 pm

    Service Temporarily Unavailable

    Someone post the file from their cache?
  10. korgmeister says:
    15 years ago at 11:07 pm

    For some reason, it reminds me of my Mum. I am not sure what that could possibly mean.
  11. terry_fide says:
    15 years ago at 12:45 am

    I just set up a projector in front of the front door to the office, so that whoever walks in, sees a very large and quite scary asian woman looking at them. lovely.

    also, sometimes it tracks people with it's eyes as they walk past it.

    god I love the internet!
    • taiganaut says:
      15 years ago at 10:08 pm

      also, sometimes it tracks people with it's eyes as they walk past it.

      There's got to be a way to rig it to track nearby motion. Oh man that would be excellent. The paintings really are watching you.
  12. john_x says:
    15 years ago at 9:52 am

    Given the depth and breadth with which you trawl these intarwebs I find it difficult to believe that you haven't heard of this already, but I didn't see it immediately in a search of your archives (google: xeyes site:jwz.livejournal.com) and it seems like the kind of thing you might get a kick out of, so here it is: a port of xeyes to "reallife."
    http://hunz.geekheim.de/?p=47
  13. taiganaut says:
    15 years ago at 10:03 pm

    Smack in the middle of uncanny valley. gah.

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