Here’s why it’s not good to align portraits side by side when you’re doing a slideshow: the human brain, earnestly seeking to differentiate them, exaggerates the differences, resulting in an optical illusion called Flashed Face Distortion that makes the faces seem hideous and ogre-like. (Or, if you’re Clint Howard, more hideous and ogre-like.) Take a look.

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