Around Azeroth: Man? Woman? Tree?
by Dan O'Halloran 
Jan 28th 2008 at 10:00AM
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@wow.com with a copy of your shot and a brief explanation of the scene. You could be featured here next!
Filed under: Screenshots, Around Azeroth
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Richard Jan 28th 2008 10:14AM
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.
Jasperwind Jan 28th 2008 10:20AM
Maybe it's a tree spirit kinda like those bobble-head guys in Princess Mononoke. ;-)
nav Jan 28th 2008 11:10AM
Pareidolia. I can't even see the woman.
Jeremy Jan 28th 2008 1:06PM
Anyone else think the dark brown part looks a bit like Maiev Shadowsong?
Bearskunk Jan 28th 2008 12:00PM
I see Jesus! again! He was on my toast this morning as well!!
Jax Jan 28th 2008 12:17PM
I see something totally different. Think thighs, green hair..a lover descending..i have probably said too much.
i am so ashamed.
Azazella Jan 28th 2008 1:15PM
it's a little green gnome girl xD
svenhoek Jan 28th 2008 2:44PM
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.
Merri Jan 29th 2008 12:29AM
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.
Ghola Jan 31st 2008 1:15PM
Yeah.... Um...
I see a man and a woman.... But not the way you're thinking...
Bow chicka wow wow...