My pareidolia knows no bounds.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by shando</i>
<br />So photos of the moon are not available at the necessary resolution to do a comparitive study with the MOC images from mars .... too bad. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">If there are, I don't know about it, and would love to see them.

rd

So, if we were to get a large scale experiment set up, we'd need to have all our images at the same resolution. Of course we could also use different res images as contols as well. I'd like to see 3d dem images and record the viewer's eye movements also.

I would say that it's in NASA's interest to to do the experiments. For picking landing sites, and for picking the right lander pilot.

Rd- Good recipe. Use that as a control and do another with 3 viscosity oils (like corn and sesame amd olive) and compare. The former may be more healthfull but the latter more pareidolia.

shando- Great you're getting into shadow photography. Any more said here i'd be leaving the topic.

One needs a middle ground between chaotic white noise (vision), and blank homogeniety to get the best pareidolia. Either extreme lessens pareidolia. Blank walls and whipped foam have less pareidolia than a mid-ground. Foam at the sea shore left after the waves retract would have more imagery than pure foam. The moon looks like crater forming objects hit it which would make less pareidolia than on Mars where more flowing action seems to have added to the images.

During the Second World War, the Brits gave the job of camouflage and subterfuge to a magician. His greatest feat was to build a fake Alexandria. He also invented "sloppy" camouflage to get bombers to hit his targets. He invented the simple ruse of tipping a pile of soil onto a road, the air recon photos would look like craters. This was used to great effect in Bosnia, and fooled all the high tech NATO gear.

Pareidolia in this context would have to interest the spook division of NASA. Of course if that happened we'd never get to know the results[8D][]

Let's suppose that our internal landscape was perceived as external to our ancestors. Then Achilles would have been held back by the goddess physically grabbing his ponytail. In fact if she had spoken as a modern, internal voice, urging restraint, then Achilles would have thought he was going insane. This change would be one hell of a paradigm shift. Does our brain retain older paradigms? Stories of people not having nasty accidents, because their dear departed grany shouted at them are common currency after all. Auditory pareidolia anyone?

Paraudolia!!