Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now...

over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can still view these, but it’s much much harder for me.

  I don’t know why parallel isn’t the default.

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Lots of people can really easily go cross-eyed and look at these with no practice whatsoever. Fewer people can do the parallel kind with no practice or with the amount of practice they’ve already done.

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What is parallel ?

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    • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Parallel are the ones where you put the image between you and your point of focus, instead of your point of focus being between you and the image.

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      • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That seems hard to do

        I’ve tried it (to get reverse-depth) and didn’t manage to…

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I grew up with the Magic Eye books and have never been able to do cross-view as a result.

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• wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you want wall-eyed viewing, you can just download the image and mirror flip it in an image editor.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Incorrect. You don’t mirror flip it, you swap the images to convert between cross/parallel view.

    Source: I wrote my own stereogram software, I know the difference.

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    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah yes! Sorry, the stupid thing is, I knew that and said that to someone else last night! Thank you stranger!

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    • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is that available somewhere?

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• Flames5123@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can never get the parallel view to work. My eyes want to focus too quickly. :( cross view is so much easier to me. I wish they came in both all the time.

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