{OK} par - Pareidolia

Defined as the tendency to impose an interpretation such as seeing a pattern or object that is not there.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Common examples are seeing faces, animals or objects in the shapes of clouds. woodgrain in another popular source of these interpretations.
Another famous case is the "Canals on Mars" as seen by Percival Lowell in
1894 - and others, such as Giovani Schiaparelli. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canal

Most of these are not my images : posted under Fair Use & educational / entertainment purposes : several friends regularly send me examples of pareidolia as they know I find this as fascinating as optical illusions and the Escher drawings.

Defined as the tendency to impose an interpretation such as seeing a pattern or object that is not there.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Common examples are seeing faces, animals or objects in the shapes of clouds. woodgrain in another popular source of these interpretations.
Another famous case is the "Canals on Mars" as seen by Percival Lowell in
1894 - and others, such as Giovani Schiaparell…  (read more)

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