
The above illustration from Key’s visual novel “Tomoyo After – It’s a Wonderful Life” conceals an amusing easter egg visible only to users of dread browser Internet Explorer.
To view it, first enlarge the image, then press Ctrl + A, or alternatively select the image (so it is highlighted).
As stated, only Microsoft’s superior browser will display this, so users of rebel browsers will unfortunately have to resort to IE.
Wow, this kind of shit is like, decades old.
I like that this not only makes an otaku-news site in 2009, but that people are going OMG WOWWWWW about it.
I want more of this IE nude filter...!
Can someone gimme the link?
Interlacing.. pretty simple, it gets filtered out, really...
all highlights are transparent
for IE, to make it transparent, they use a series of alternate filled and unfilled pixels, so it's not really transparent, it's only an illusion.
while firefox use a colorfill and truly sets the transparency or opacity.
so Firefox wont work since it also highlights the pixels uneeded, whereas IE, filters out perfectly the uneeded pixels...
you can use it with photoshop...
And if you look closely at the non highlighted image, you can actually see parts of the nude filter. You can see Tomoyo's waist lines in that picture, although it isn't that clear.
Similarly, you can see the nipples in the Shana filter (it's a newer post) even when it's not highlighted.
good work weeaboo
So cool. Wonder if there are similar fun pics like this.
I don't know if the problem has been solved, because I can't be fucked reading all of the comments, but to fix the problem of it not working on IE, just click it to zoom in, then highlight it. Works fine.
This is sorcery!!!
this is technology
orz
damn this is helpful for my thesis.. is this steganography or visual cryptography? damn a good find! XD
Neither, I believe. It's a problem with our brains =/
One thing I can see from this is that Kyou's uniform seemed purposely made half-transparent to begin with so that it happens when we use CTRL+A.
... Oh great, accidental discovery is evil.
Oh yeah, the use of Photoshop just verified the semi-transparency of the white parts of Kyou's uniform.
Shame I can't view the nude-filtered version of this in IE8 I have now. Despair!
IE Tab.
wow...that was nice
lol
i really tried it on my firefox first, it didn't work
rushed to I.E. it worked! haha
too bad she's kneeling though, the easter egg would've been better if she was lying on her back
ohwell
This is the finest browser I have ever used. Can't possibly imagine switching that "FireFox" shit.
Wow that was wicked. I usually use firefox but then IE8 does have its own thing tha firefox don't.
I lol'd at the implication that IE is a superior browser.
Actually, I lol'd at the implication that IE is good.
Because it is shit.
I lol'd at your lol because IE is wonderful.
It also works in Avant Browser, which is a build-off of IE.
lucky, even I use Chrome but I still have IE :D
I wanna be able to do this to my friend's pictures lololol
Can some one put up a tutorial on how to make one please.
No problems with seamonkey
this is fail. great concept, but what the fuck is she doing? praying to the IE gods? where is the hot?
That's pretty cool.
For those who haven't figured it out, this effect is achieved by merging two images in a checkerboard grid fashion, alternating pixels showing the two images, increasing the brightness of one of the images first way up and then cranking the gamma way back down (I can't remember exactly how low achieves the proper effect as I'm too lazy to check the chunks used in that image, but if memory serves it's around 1.5% of the original). Gotta use the actual gamma chunk to achieve this, mind you. Simply lowering the brightness on the image as a whole far down would show the same image for all users.
The reason it shows up as a "different" image in IE is because IE's rendering engine fails to comply to a host of standards and even fully implement rendering of a lot of things, such as png transparency or, as is showcased with this image, png gamma settings. All png images can have a chunk, or tag if you will, that specifies what gamma setting it should be rendered with. Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari etc all obey this gamma chunk and so display the "right" image. IE doesn't and will instead render the image far brighter than it should. The pixels that appear to be black in most browsers aren't entirely black and when their gamma is cranked up you can see the other image easily as the "right" one now consists of near-white pixels instead.
well that was awesome XDD
Newsflash: get the IETab add-on for Firefox/lolifox, and you can see it w/o using the dreaded browser.
Newsflash: When you're using IE Tab, you're still using the "dreaded browser". IE Tab just feeds the Internet Explorer engine into a firefox tab, including all of the flaws and security holes.
IE Tab is like turning Firefox into a woman. It gives you the stagnant, squishy hole in the middle, but without all the useless, bloated bits around it.
Interesting
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!
Why does it only work on this page though?
If you right click on the picture, steal the source from the properties, and view the image alone in another tab then it doesnt work.
I also noticed the picture is a .png file, is that the only picture file type that this feature works on? Doesn't seem to work on other sites.
Fucking magic.
This is great, I have no idea why it works but I love it. I hope FireFox and Chrome get this soon
i did this on firefox and IE,,, does the exact same fucking thing, and i don't have the IE tab in firefox...
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffuuuuuu
first thing that happened when I opened IE - crashes
i dont understand this... when i ctrl+a all it does is just blue pixel it... wheres the nudity O_O
THE ARE COMPLETLY TRICKS
THESE PICS ARE MODIFIED FOR SOME PIXEL
SO YOU HIGHLIGHT THE BULE PIXELS CONTAIN CLOTH ARE "HIDDEN"
No way in hell am I gonna use a micro$oft prog if theres a similar/better alternative.
People who make such nude filters are idiots. If they don't want to show their work I don't want to see them.
Wow man, i know the tricks, say it... Hologram Tricks?
Yes, IE have one big problem when some pictures got complex Pixel?
Well looks like the pixel in here got like... 2 bit of different type of picture
One With cloths, and the next one is the nude filter
Nice man!
If you have Linux, you aren't left out in the cold! Simply download http://www.kelahn.com/images/Blackout.png (Hosted on my own server, please be kind... If you want to share with others, copy it to your own server. No attribution is necessary.) and use the following command:
composite Blackout.png input.png -tile output.png
With 'input.png' being the name of the file you want to view and 'output.png' being the new name of the file.
If that's too much hassle, or you don't have Linux, you can also use TheGimp and use my image to paint a new layer, with the image tiled over the whole layer. This should also be possible in any paint program capable of painting an image as a tile.
Enjoy!
I've always use Microsoft products, and always will. IE will always beat FireF.... okay maybe i won't say it here, but i think you get my point
when i enlarge it goes checkerboard and when i highlight it the squares turn into diamonds :s
How the hell do they do this? Layers + what?
neat trick...
It....actually works. That's really impressive.
IE is still lame though.
It doesn't work for me and I'm using IE8 on Vista.
Wow... sweet. To anyone that can't see it, click the enlarge picture thing, hit the buttons, and BOOM. she's naked
haha nice :P
BTW is you have installed Itunes... the FUCKING quicktime will open the .png.... -.-
ha, microsoft guys are bunch of pervs
I have to try "CTRL+A" combo in microsoft's page. :D
HOLY CRAP! A USE FOR IE!?!
There's always use for IE.
GODAMMIT!! I'm using ubuntu! I don't have IE!!! Is there a way for me?
get windows ;)
Make sure that you are using the default Luna theme in Blue!
It is only visible with IE, because IE highlights pictures by overlaying a blue pattern. Firefox actually tints the pictures blue.
Here a version made with GIMP :P
http://yfrog.com/0utomoyoafterinternetexplp
Now with less blue!
http://img196.yfrog.com/i/tomoyoafterinternetexpl.png/
Now without blue
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/899/33658371.jpg
Surely not the most time efficient way of converting rebels back to IE, although surprizingly amusing...
It's been years since I fapped to anything on IE. Doing it old skool today!
ok...that was really quite something
thats pretty awsome
this is weird...lol but awesome!
Holy crap 0_0 I'm speechless. This is the first time I can sincerely say, that IE beat FF at something. Keep up the good job, guys at microsoft ^^ Looking forward to more awesomeness~
you're kidding, right?
I think he is serious O_O
I WAS serious until I got the IE tab extension for firefox. Now I can once again say "fuck IE"...
@Hyo
Spoilers: you're still using IE, only inside Firefox.
i hate IE explorer so much but i went to it anyway just to enjoy this nudity.
This is awesome. IE fnally found its place in the webs - NUDE FILTER
Yeah, lol. :D
nice discovery
hey.y i cant see it?maybe version IE7 cannot do this?
be sure to ENLARGE the picture after clicking on it for enhanced checker-free effect.
Hahaha, amusing.
By the way, for those that stick to Firefox (probably web devs are the only ones who care about plugins like this but...) you can use IE Tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419) for Firefox and it'll work as well. ;)
Cool thanx!
Ahahahah I did it!
Firefox roxxor!
~ *thumbs up*
Good catch, Thanks . . .
haha that's awesome!
It was worth blowing the dust off my IE tab and having a looksie
Okay, that's it. I'm switching back to IE.
Enjoy your ad and virus ^-^b
What is with this bullshit? Is it some sort of meme?
Can't see it, doesn't work on IE7 I suppose? try it on my office pc on monday.
It does work on my IE7/XP.
Older than the internetz, but put to good use! xD
This is just because of the way Internet Explorer highlights selected text/images.
I don't see anything
wow... its really cool! hehe
WTF?! LOL.
Linux user feeling left out.
Well, we always have ies4linux, but who would want to runs a perfectly good OS with shit software made of FAIL?
Yeah, Linux is like that.
Not working in IE 8.
It works in IE 8, I tried it before I posted.
I too had no luck - Vista, mind you.
I mean I got the same results as the pictures above.
On Vista with IE, right click on the image and click 'open link in new tab' then you can drag and highlight the image.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/16ad01da2d.jpg
there's a shot of it running in IE on Windows 7
It looks like picture is still downsized (yes, it enlarges picture to fit your screen). When you point your mouse at this picture you will see resize button in the bottom right corner.
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/16ad01da2d.jpg
there's a screenshot.
Odd. I tried IE8 running Windows 7.
I also tried it in IE8 on Windows 7 and it does not work. Tried regular size, enlarged, and new tab, no luck.
Revision: in IE8 on Windows 7, it will sparsely work. Ctrl+A doesn't do it right; click and drag does work but only while holding down the mouse button. As soon as I let go of the drag, it fails.
Just as mentioned, it works. Scroll or resize may cause problems though. Try to keep left click held while highlighting.
Wow, that's fucked in the head, but you're right. Because this trick relies on pixel-perfect highlighting, it means IE's highlight-overlay shifts depending on whether your mousebutton is down or not. But *sometimes* it just works without mousedown...
Ok this works