Four eyes — Instagram Filter Review

Published on Mar 20, 2019 | Filter name: "Les Yeux"

Filter creator: Jade Roche (@ramenpolanski)

"Les Yeux", in French "The eyes", is an IG effect that duplicates your eyes and places two more eyes below your eyes. If you move your head a bit, you can see that it is straight duplication of this area.

Even the bridge part of the noise is replicated. When you move your head to the side you can see that the nose part isn't aligned properly with your real nose. I wonder if there was an option to just replicate the eyes and create a gradient mask that allows better positioning without the middle part of the nose, thus preventing that glitch. Maybe some will like it that way though.

When you look at it from the front it looks OK, but still, you can see that the nose area isn't as it should.

Now for the fun part. The two duplicated eyes are the eyes from the camera stream, this means that whatever you do with your real eyes, it will be shown on all four eyes. I think it would be funny to have the eye location reverse (if it's possible technically). This way. if you blink with the left, the right eye at the second row below it will blink and same goes to the right eyes. It creates a cool effect. I would add this one as an alternative by just tapping on the screen. Again, I am not sure it's possible, but from seeing all the cool things developers are making, I am quite positive that it is possible.

replicating parts of the face is something that many Instagram users who use Instagram filters, like me, are very well familiar with. It gives you that alien look or likes the Hogna Wold spider.

By Thomas Shahan from the USA - Eye Arrangement of a Hogna Wolf Spider, CC BY 2.0, Link

Well, as you can see from the top image (fantastic image by the way) when I used this filter, it made me kind of look like this spider you see above.

When you see alien creatures in cartoons and movies, artists usually play with their eyes. The eyes look different than human beings or they just have many eyes. I guess this filter was inspired by those.

I've also seen a filter (can't remember its name right now) that renders many eyes, just feels up the face with your eyes. It looks so cool. Although these type of effects aren't in my top favorites,  I still enjoy using them. The fact that part of your body is duplicated and reacts naturally is the cool thing about it.

I enjoyed using filters like this futuristic neon-lighted mask, shiny face mask, rotating faces mask, part of it because of the duplication effect.

I always wondered how it would be operating more than two legs, a tailor more than two hands. I don't know, it's because I am used to operating just those, it made me wonder how it would feel like having more arms and legs to control, even eyes. The thing is that I can individually control each of the eyes in that effect, but it's the closest I got to feel how it is like. 

I'm quite positive that using brain-computer interface, we will be able to control objects and maybe by using advanced brain-computer interfaces, we will get to fill how it is like controlling other things with our brain other than the parts of our body.

Again, this filter made me think about those things. This is one of the reasons why I enjoy using Instagram filters, mask and camera effects because it inspires me a lot. The filters that I usually enjoy most are the ones that inspire me the most or trigger strong emotions.

This one actually falls more into the first one, and it does that very well and this is why, as simple as it is, I enjoyed using it.

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