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Yes. They require stereoscopic vision. When I was doing research on 3D displays about 10% of subjects had to be rejected because they were stereo blind. They had no idea they were that way.
One woman said that explains why she had the nickname clunk in high school. She had a habit of rearending cars.
Lmao clunk is brutal
Someone made a modified version of Quake back in the day, that rendered to stereoscopic 3D in a white noise pattern.
It was such a mindfuck to play!
You get 3D depth but no colors or shades or contrast. It's just shapes moving. So doors that were flush with the wall were impossible to see, but enemies in dark rooms were fully visible because there is no light or dark.
I like to imagine I got to experience what a bat sees with echolocation.
Yes.
The instructions say don't cross your eyes but that's horseshit and probably why so many people fail to see them.
My method is to cross my eyes, then uncross them slowly until the 3d effect appears, then hold on that position.
But then you see them inverted.
3d cross eyed pictures and magic eye work in similar but different ways
Absolutely loved them as a kid! Had a quite a few books.
You can do them two different ways. The normal way with the object popping out towards you and an inverted way with crossing your eyes that inverts the shape.
I'm pretty sure I did it the cross eyed way. I'm doo trunk to understand how to do it another way
Bring the page close to your nose, let your eyes kinda naturally loose focus from distance. Then slowly start to pull the page back and you should get it.
Kinda difficult to describe.
Check back when you are sober and see if you get it to work.
Maybe I have it mixed up then because the way I'm doing it is losing focus and letting it adjust until I see something. I thought I was going crosseyed but I didn't have a mirror so I can't be sure.
For the cross eye version you just need to hold out the page at normal viewing distance and cross your eyes till the 3d image pops.
Sounds like you are doing it the regular way. Which is the more difficult one for most people that have issues with magic eyes.
Glad you got to experience them!
The way this works is that the image is designed to appear 'beyond' the surface it is printed on. It's much easier to relax your eyes and pretend you're looking at what's 'behind' the paper. Kind of like 3d chalk art on the road in a way.
The other way of crossing your eyes works because you're swapping the left and right eye, which gives a different, inverted appearance. Instead of a foreground image popping out of the background, it looks like the other way. Like looking in a box, kinda.
I can do both, but the latter is more difficult, sometimes requires a specific distance, and can be painful if you force it. If the image is too big, you may only be able to see a part of it. I think the first method is easier to do and to learn/train. Either way, you aren't looking at what's 'on the surface'.
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The best way I can explain is: pretend you're sitting on the toilet, really tired and you have nothing to look at so you just lose focus and gaze at random stuff. When the tiles or cracks start to make pictures that aren't there, that's kind of the effect you want.
I'm fairly certain I'm doing the distance thing but at the same time I am fairly certain I am looking inside a 3d box
https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicEye/s/ogZeqQWwpY
That's the piece that made it click for me
This works, but the quicker method for me was to hold the book over my head, out of my line of sight while I focused my eyes on something a little farther away (a few feet away is fine). Then you can simply move the book downward into your field of vision while refusing to let your eyes refocus. It should be blurry, because you're still focusing past it, despite it being right in front of your face. Then just relax and let your brain do the work.
This method got by far the quickest and most reliable results for me, most pop suddenly into view in just a couple seconds.
I think this method works best because you're using established muscle memory to focus your eyes on an object at a measurable, consistent distance, and then just not letting them change. Removes several variables from the equation.
I can view the convergent (cross-eyed) ones no problem. I managed once to focus on the divergent ones with like 30 minutes of practice, but I had trouble focusing normally afterwards for like an hour so I haven't tried since.
It's a skill. You get better with practice.
Ya I was wondering the whole time if this was going to cause some long term damage
Now that you've figured it out, behold: Stereograms!
The above satellite images from NASA allow you to SEE the topography in 3D.
My parents were of the opinion they were an elaborate hoax until they had me draw what I saw in one of them.
This was in a newspaper 30 or so years ago maybe. The image was accompanied by a depth-map image of what should be visible, but they covered that up. Then they asked if I'd looked at the newspaper before them because, even with my terrible art skills, it was clearly what was in the depth-map version.
I think they believed me in the end though.
Yep.
If you can do it, you can sometimes use that skill to quickly compare whether two adjacent vertical images are identical. If they are, you will just see a single version of the image as normal. If they are different, you will easily see a ‘fuzzy’ part of the image that won’t resolve and stay still (hard to describe, it’s like when I try to read text in a dream).
A practical application I use now and then is when I want to compare two columns of data on a screen. Use the magic eye technique to overlap the columns and any differences will be immediately obvious, even with a lot of data.
I love them! Generally find that once you get one it's a lot easier. I find that if I've not looked at one for a while, and 8k kit getting it, and I go back to the first one I got (some boxing kangaroos) and normally it just clicks again.
My partner can't see them, and is convinced it's just a dumb hoax that people on the Internet play pretending they can see them.
Nope! But I've made them. I needed to go find someone with more normal eyes to test my creations for me, though.
Yes.
This is a great random question. Me likey
I'm full of random questions
If you could only eat 1 dish forever without worrying about vitamin intake or macros, what would it be?
What would your plan be if you woke up tomorrow and everyone else on earth disappeared without a trace?
What's a skill you want to learn and what's stopping you from learning it?
What's the largest animal you think you could beat in a fight with just your hands?
You stumble upon all the dragonballs, what is your wish?
Oh this is easy!
Lasagne - its so versatile. I'd usually keep it realy light on mince and boost the vegetables, though. So many textures and ways to play with flavours, it'd be ages before it got old.
Alone? I dunno. Sleep or gooning, probably
Largest animal: a med-small dog? Like a whippet or something.
I don't understand the dragonballs stuff. Probably just too them down a hill (we've got some really steep streets for this in NZ)
Good choice garfield
No survival plans?
Reasonable choice
The dragonballs from the manga/anime dragonball summon shenron the dragon when you collect them all and you're allowed to make 1 wish, even including bringing people back from the dead
Yes. I can change my vision's focal point and focus distance at will, so it's usually easy even though my eyesight is getting fucky with age.
I can see them.
Or at least I could. When LGR recently made a video about them, I was having a very bad time viewing them. I was either too drunk or not used to seeing them with this TV setup or I just need new glasses. Probably the last one.
I finally realized how to reliably do it in my early 20s (a while ago now) but still can to this day. Just have to start with it at my face haha.
Yeah, but I have to stick my face right up close and slowly move it away to do so.
Phone/tablet screens work best for it.
I can somewhat move my eyes independently. I credit this skill to us having had magic eyes books as a kid and I just learned to control eye muscles willingly.
I didn't think I could but interestingly enough discovered a technique that works earlier today. Basically get really close whilst staring at a point then gradually move away. It actually is an amazing effect
I couldn't because really bad astigmatism, but after ICL surgery I could. Magic Eye is really cool, binged the greatest hits after I found out I could see them.
I can see the 3D, but struggle to put together what they are sometimes because I don't have colors to put the image together.
I see them inverted. I'm left handed, I figure that has something to do with it
It sounds like you might be looking at the left image with your right eye and the right image with your left eye. That's what happens when you cross your eyes instead of looking past the image.
Nope. Never figured it out
Yeah I just relax my eyes and then focus the book without moving my line of sight
Im in my 30s and learned a few years ago, my brother in law showed me how. Was super cool, I had always thought it was people trolling
It's harder than it was before I needed bifocals, but yeah.
Once you learn the trick of it, it gets easier to do.
I wanna say I was late teens/early twenties when they first started showing up in my area, and I stood in the store I first saw one for like a half hour trying to see the image. My vision was kinda bad across the board, even then. But I got the first one, which was a boat, and then flipped through the rest of the selection they had, maybe five or six different ones?
But any time I got new glasses, it would take a few minutes to adjust when I'd run across one again. Same if I needed new ones.
They really are fun
I have tried to see them so many times but have never even gotten an inkling.
I used to, but its been years since I've tried, and I've had to get stronger glasses a couple of time since then.
Yep. There was one on the Sunday comics page every week when I was a kid, and I learned how to do it then. I never understood the people who can't do it, or thought it was fake.
I can, but it is sometimes tricky. Usually I can make the image go into 3D mode without too much trouble, but I sometimes can't figure out what I'm supposed to be seeing. Like, I can tell that things are at different depths but I have a hard time resolving it into a complete cohesive image. I think it is mostly due to the weird random pattern that makes up the image and the difficulty in finding how the edges work together. It could just be shitty stereograms, though, since most of them work fine.
Yes, you have to imagine you are looking into a mirror at yourself and focus your eyes on that place; look past the image.
