Around Azeroth: Man? Woman? Tree?
While riding in Feralas from Desolace, reader Kahdrill noticed this tree next to the road. As she put it, "The first thing I noticed was the shape of what seemed to be a man, standing with his arms stretched out. Then i saw that opposite of him was what looked like the figure of a woman. Made me wonder if this was intentional, or just an accident of textures." Rorscharch test serendipity or hidden art? You decide.
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Do you have any unusual World of Warcraft images that are just collecting dust in your screenshots folder? Because we'd love to see it on Around Azeroth! Sharing your screenshot is as simple as e-mailing aroundazeroth@wowinsider.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next!

















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1-28-2008 @ 10:14AM
Richard said...
I can't imagine that this wasn't intended.
Seems like one of the texture mappers having fun... Blizz is a big stickler for using "mirror" images for textures and flipping them over to stretch across an item.
A perfect example are tabards... notice every single tabard (except, perhaps the Contest Winner Tabard) is 100% symmetrical?
There's a blue post somewhere about it, and how they only do "one-half" of the image and mirror it.
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1-28-2008 @ 10:20AM
Jasperwind said...
Maybe it's a tree spirit kinda like those bobble-head guys in Princess Mononoke. ;-)
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1-28-2008 @ 11:10AM
nav said...
Pareidolia. I can't even see the woman.
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1-28-2008 @ 12:00PM
Bearskunk said...
I see Jesus! again! He was on my toast this morning as well!!
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1-28-2008 @ 12:17PM
Jax said...
I see something totally different. Think thighs, green hair..a lover descending..i have probably said too much.
i am so ashamed.
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1-28-2008 @ 1:06PM
Jeremy said...
Anyone else think the dark brown part looks a bit like Maiev Shadowsong?
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1-28-2008 @ 1:15PM
Azazella said...
it's a little green gnome girl xD
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1-28-2008 @ 2:44PM
svenhoek said...
Its Xavius from the Warcraft books. He had an arrow shot into his arm, and Malfurion used his druid voodoo to make the wood in the arrow use his bodies delicious juices to turn him into a tree. He died of course.
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1-29-2008 @ 12:29AM
Merri said...
It's the texture seam, sillies. You see it all over the place in WoW. In this case the texture is wrapped or repeated in such a way that it mirrors creating a random pattern that the human brain interprets as a figure. An infamous example of this sort of pattern recognition is the 'face' on Mars.
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1-31-2008 @ 1:15PM
Ghola said...
Yeah.... Um...
I see a man and a woman.... But not the way you're thinking...
Bow chicka wow wow...
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