There’s a Nifty Optical Illusion in Mark Millar and Sean Murphy’s Chrononauts # 1
Here’s something nifty from the brilliant minds of Mark Millar and Sean Gordon Murphy – an optical illusion in the cover for Chrononauts # 1.
Check out the watch face in the cover above and let us know what you see. Have a good look? OK. Apparently, artist Sean Gordon Murphy hid a nifty optical illusion in that watch face that can only be seen by a small minority of people. It’s a complicated explanation (laid out below), but basically most people see a simple watch face and a rare few see an hourglass.
It’s a semi-rare sporadic form of color-blindness due to abnormal wiring in occipital lobe… @mrmarkmillar pic.twitter.com/lvR2LEoOLK
— Sean Gordon Murphy (@Sean_G_Murphy) March 16, 2015
(2) …It affects around 1 in 15 people and is a variant of synaesthesia which a university helped me develop the multiple color overlays…
— Sean Gordon Murphy (@Sean_G_Murphy) March 16, 2015
(3)…What’s interesting is the artistic brains–they’re all right-brain dominant which means artists, musicians, writers more likely to…
— Sean Gordon Murphy (@Sean_G_Murphy) March 16, 2015
It almost works like invisible ink! CIA once tried to utilize process in agents for decoding messages during Cold War. @mrmarkmillar
— Sean Gordon Murphy (@Sean_G_Murphy) March 16, 2015
