Pareidolia
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Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidol
An example of pareidolia in the Rocks of Dwejra at Gozo, Malta, which looks like a face.
A pyroxene crystal in a piece of basalt that resembles a human face, facing to the left
The Jurist by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566. What appears to be his face is a collection of fish and poultry, while his body is a collection of books dressed in a coat.
Salem by Sydney Curnow Vosper (1908), a painting notorious for the belief that the face of the devil was hidden in the main character's shawl
Hitler teapot
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The Michael Graves Design Bells and Whistles Stainless Steel Tea Kettle, colloquially known as the Hitler teapot, was a stainless-steel kettle sold in 2013 by the American retailer and department stor
Pareidolia
…Eigenface – Set of eigenvectors used in the computer vision problem of human face recognition Hitler teapot – Kettle perceived to resemble Adolf Hitler Madonna of the Toast – 2007 book about pareidolia…
Hitler teapot
Adolf Hitler