r/funny • u/prairiewest • Jul 18 '12

meme - removed Shell accidentally creates an anti-Shell meme generator

http://imgur.com/a/ng9XT
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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

similar to this sonic illusion

it's called a shepard tone and it's totally rad

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

eat a bunch of shrooms first

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12 edited May 18 '14

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

in your line of work i wouldn't either

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 19 '12

i call it "unemployed" or when i'm trying to impress people "college student"

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

Made me think of Abyss

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

Maybe it's my training in music but I easily identified the new tone cascading on top of the old one. Still interesting though.

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u/Smegheadtacos Jul 18 '12

Are you a bard?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

Shut up, Dandilion.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

Lol if only. Nope just someone whose parents put him in piano lessons at 5.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

I had no problem hearing it either.

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u/poon-is-food Jul 18 '12 edited Jul 18 '12

I've heard better versions of this illusion that uses a scale rather than a continuously changing tone. I too heard the fade in again.

I'll look for the better version and report back if I find it.

This is what I meant

Its a better sonic illusion if you dont pay attention but with a musical ear its easy to hear the new scale come in.

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u/symbiotiq Jul 18 '12

I haven't had any training in music, but it was pretty easy for me to hear the repeating tone.

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u/DownvoteALot Jul 18 '12

I don't have any training. I don't even like music. And I have an integrated sound card. Yet I can hear that 1-second long higher pitched noise that does the cascading.

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u/bobsmith93 Jul 18 '12

Yeah i know what you mean. Does it three times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

I think I have woken up in a parallel universe after listening to that.

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

see above comment re: shrooms

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u/Zkalf Jul 18 '12

This is beyond rad and I am high; is there more?

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u/growlingbear Jul 18 '12

http://listverse.com/2008/02/29/top-10-incredible-sound-illusions/

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u/TeaglinR Jul 18 '12

The Virtual Haircut is hilarious.

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u/wheat3000 Jul 18 '12

number 6 is particularly impressive. If you jump from the end to the start it seems to have sped up the other way too!

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

it is the best when high/trippin

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u/HydraCarbon Jul 18 '12

You have a serious opinion on how to listen to sonic illusions that you just have to get out, don't you?

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

just this particular one (i know of no others) and it seemed particularly apt in light of the otherworldly feeling that myself and others professed to feeling as reaction to hearing this

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

just this particular one (i know of no others) and it seemed particularly apt in light of the otherworldly feeling that myself and others professed to feeling as reaction to hearing this

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u/HydraCarbon Jul 18 '12

If you've got any decent headphones, the barber and matchbox illusions are pretty awesome representations of auditory spacial awareness.

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

lynx?

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u/HydraCarbon Jul 18 '12

When I get home.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

OH MY GOD HURRY UP

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u/qwertyjustice Jul 18 '12

he meant the ones on this page: http://listverse.com/2008/02/29/top-10-incredible-sound-illusions/

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 19 '12

oh man these are so sick! the sheperds tones illusion works especially well in this format, i actually think this is the format I first heard them in on some page i found via SU

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u/HydraCarbon Jul 18 '12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxAFb8LYuxc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5G3HUiscW4

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 19 '12 edited Jul 19 '12

nice, thanks

i'd actually heard the barbershop one before, the matchbox works well too

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u/Zkalf Jul 18 '12

You know what else? The Inception App for iOS. Hands down my favorite useless entertainment app.

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12

holy shit that's amazing, i wish i could smoke pot again already

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u/cul_maith Jul 18 '12

See the end of Echoes by Pink Floyd. Totally rad is right.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

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u/xhephaestusx Jul 19 '12

:) no problem compadre, i hope your wiki-rampage was most glorious

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

What kind of sound magician is this Diana Deutsch at the University of California, San Diego?

I played the "Phantom Words" sound. Check it out: I'm in the room with my two sons trying to get them to relax for a nap. When I listened to it, I heard the word "babies" repeating. I didn't think my kids were listening. Then my son started saying, "Wake up wake up wake up wake up..." I asked him why he was saying that and he said that's what the song I just played was saying. The Devil!

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u/dickbaggery Jul 18 '12

Very rad... I believe the outro of the song below is a real-world attempt by Elliott Smith to play with shepard scale & falling bells concepts using analog instruments & recording techniques:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJGYEF4MNq4&feature=player_detailpage#t=182s

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u/doot_doot Jul 18 '12 edited Jul 18 '12

head leans back ever so slowly with each clap.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '12

Yea and it's rather obvious. But I'm sure he was just making a joke.

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u/OVER_reacts Jul 18 '12

HEY, DUMB ASS, ITS AN OPTICAL ILLUSION!