• glimse@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I noticed something was up on the right side of his face but decided it was distribution from the thick lenses…

      …then I looked at the other side and I have no idea what the fuck is going on. Is this a generated picture like that Netflix documentary?

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        You have it right, he had thick lenses for myopia, looks like. The edges are polished, so they have a distortion effect when lit the way they are, from above. Looks like his left eye was way more corrected than the left, as well.

        Source: I’m blind as fuck and can relate to this distortion in pictures.

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          I’m struggling with it still because my brain says the top line is the arm but…on the right side you can see it comes out of the middle, not the top.

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      Bad upscaling algorithm.

      Edit: I shouldn’t say bad, there’s no perfect solution and it’s a difficult thing to make work at all.

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      I’ve only looked at the posted photo not read the article. But it looks like the image could have been ai upscaled and that’s a result