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[schummbo]

I've attached a screenshot of the background with two men's faces highlighted. If you know how to get these illusions to work, you know that you have to sort of cross your eyes in a way and match up some part of the image that repeats. Cock your head to the side a little and try to match up these two mens faces in the original. Some letters pop out at you pretty clearly. I've left the "pole" in the picture so you have a reference to find these faces. I can see what looks like the letters "I C O" but the 'O' has two chunks out of it. If you look for other patterns in the picture, you'll see more. To the left of this, i can see some more letters which kind of look like "I C" but the "C" could be the left half of an O as well.

I'm sure those aren't the only faces, those are just the ones taht sick out to me. Also, I apolgize for not compressing the image and leaving it as a bitmap, but I'm at work and I dont ahve any better software installed than MSpaint

Edit: Sorry for the long posts, but just to add a wee bit more, i believe these are called stereo optical illusions, or stereograms.

[misery_of_pain]

Prolly just my monitor, but I can sorta see the Quake symbol. Anyone else see that?

EDIT: Another question, has anyone tried to desteg this yet?

[Paulzilla]

Okay, feeling pretty good about myself right now - thanks to schummbo spotting how this thing works, to save myself any more eyestrain I came up with this pic after a little Photoshop jiggery pokery.

I think there might be more, hidden in different layers, so to speak, so I'll keep exploring

[edit] ARGH! Spotting repetition is like a game of Where's Wally (or Waldo for you American types)

[Esteed]

Hmm...it looks to me like ICDL and I can't make out what that one at the bottom is. That L could also be a one, I suppose. I'll keep trying to spot anything else, but ever since I got glasses I've sucked at these things. Curse my tendency to sit too close to the TV.

[Paulzilla]

Well, the good news is, there is more, the bad news is, I still can't make sand nor moss of any of it.

This is as clear as I can make it - there are bits not shown here, because they don't seem to serve any useful purpose (yet?). There are four depths here; if you were to make the letters "pop out" of the page, they intersect perfectly with where they'd be if you made them "sink into" the page But you could never see that at once just by looking, surely, unless you have 4 eyes. I think. I'm really quite tired. Oh, and each blue bit is at a seperate depth too.

The actual typed stuff is probably a quirk of how Photoshop works it's magic.

I think there might be a lot more to this, but I'm too tired to follow up right now.

[schummbo]

Very very cool guys Thats exactly what I was seeing, its just really hard to describe it. Never though to cross the images with photoshop. Good idea! Pretty in depth stereogram. I'm going to keep an eye on this, so far I'm very interested.

[Egochek]

We have determined that this site is part of another ARG.

www.ilovebees2.com

We received clues that there was a new site we should be out looking for and through various clues we recieved we searched and found IFPV. Now once we sent an Email to ProjectaSPLATifpv.com IFPV itself changed and had the oneless.jpg on its front page. We also got confirmation from one of our NPCs letting us know we found it.

Please come and share any Questions/Solutions that you might have or want help with.

[Nola]

Bummer. But just to satisfy our curiosity... can you point us to the clues that led you to IFPV?

EDIT / OFF-TOPIC: I am not yet convinced that this is about ILB2. But I went over there and noticed that participation is very poor... perhaps if someone can explain what ILB2 is about, and spark Unforums interest (which was lost many moons ago), this can move along. Trey is still responding to this might be a good "merge point".

[Nola]

For the sake of completeness, this is a response from Trey to a forum member in ILB2... as far as I can tell, the response came in AFTER the onless page went up, perhaps implying that this "mini game" will still go on.

[Paulzilla]

Why did Unfiction not go with it? Even if it's not "official", per se, that doesn't mean a fan-work need be a bad thing. It looks fairly well-made and has a fair few websites and things, as far as I can gather; I would have thought UF would be all over it. Unless there's some other reason of which I'm unaware.

[Delusional]

[Paulzilla]

lol I see.

Didn't read all that but I think I get the gist.

Rude and unsociable? Hardly the impression I get. Although I've seen people get totally verbally raped when they break rules like the no IG posting, which is fun

[Lt Morrow]

[understress]

So this has nothing to do with Ilovebees2?

[Paulzilla]

Hurrah!

I wasn't too keen on joining in with ILB2, mostly because it's so far along, so for me it seems that it's game (back) on!