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18 Apr 2024 18:25:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pareidolia  
From: Paolo Gibellini
Date: 25 Nov 2020 04:08:32
Message: <5fbe1f10$1@news.povray.org>
Cousin Ricky wrote on 21/11/2020 16:55:
> On 2020-11-20 4:06 AM (-4), Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> Like Real World clouds, POV-Ray-generated ones show images! In this 
>> cloudscape I see the flying horse Pegasus!
> 
> I'm just impressed that a non-native English speaker knows the word 
> "pareidolia."

Even in Italian the term is "pareidolia", the word comes from the Greek 
term εἴδωλον (image) with the prefix παρά (near).
And indeed it's an interesting image.

Paolo


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