Look closely, it is a woman.
This parrot is in fact, a female model who posed for 'world body painting champion' Johannes Stötter.
The Italian artist spent weeks planning the transformation, taking four hours to paint his subject with ink.
The model's arm forms the parrot's head and beak, and her legs form the wing and tail feathers.
It works from the refraction of the light by a different medium so that the light goes through a focal point outside the glass and reverses itself. That bending from going through the different medium is itself a really cool principle called Snell's Law.
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If the foot touching the ground is perceived to be the left foot, the dancer appears to be spinning clockwise (if seen from above); if it is taken to be the right foot, then she appears to be spinning anti-clockwise. Created in 2003 by web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara
