@30pics4jackiesdiamond - yikes! That was almost a year ago…. Technically i thin pareidolia and anthropomorphism are different things…
I think of pareidolia as seeing a face in something…. Whereas i think of anthropomorphism as making an object seem human…. I guess there can be overlap, but it seems to me one is more intentional than the other…
Pareidolia (/ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər-/;[1] also US: /ˌpɛəraɪ-/)[2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none
an·thro·po·mor·phism
/ˌanTHrəpəˈmôrˌfizəm/
noun
the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
For your challenge how about something whimsical??
I think of pareidolia as seeing a face in something…. Whereas i think of anthropomorphism as making an object seem human…. I guess there can be overlap, but it seems to me one is more intentional than the other…
Pareidolia (/ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər-/;[1] also US: /ˌpɛəraɪ-/)[2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none
an·thro·po·mor·phism
/ˌanTHrəpəˈmôrˌfizəm/
noun
the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.