You’re doing “wall eyed” viewing. These are for “cross-eyed” viewing. “Wall-eyed” means your eyes are focusing at a point behind the image. You need to cross your eyes for these. Try putting your finger in between your screen and your eyes, varying the distance until the dots merge. Then, remove your finger, focusing on the image itself. That should allow for cross-eyed viewing.
Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now...
ter_maxima@jlai.lu 23 hours ago
These are all backwards. The eyes are reversed so everything that’s supposed to be a hole looks like a bump and vice-versa.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Wolf314159@startrek.website 20 hours ago
Focusing at a point behind the image is exactly what we’ve always done for every other magic eye poster because it only requires relaxing your eyes (staring off into the distance) for the image to pop into focus. Cross eyed viewing is damn near impossible on any screen at less than an arm’s length away without significant eye strain or external devices (like the stereoscopic viewers that photogrammetrists would use to view these kinds of images without inducing a migraine) and since the dot is on top holding a finger up as a guide ends up obstructing the entire view unless your arms are growing out of your forehead. The wall eyed view has none of these issues.
I appreciate the post and your effort. But, the images themselves are frustrating and have killed my initial reaction, which was to share them further. Because I’m nearly the only person I know that wouldn’t loose interest in the explanation for “correct viewing” half way through. If they were wall eyed stereoscopic images, I could just say “Magic Eye”, they’d remember Mallrats, see the schooner, and go “Ooh neat.”
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
LOL. Cross-eyed viewing is extremely easy and is very easy to do on both a laptop or desktop display as well as a phone. It takes no strain nor do I need any “devices.”
These images are easy to see and take no effort. It seems like the issue is with you.
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 19 hours ago
Ahhhh this doesn’t work on phones? I also did Wall eyed, works quite easy but the cross eyed hurts lol.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yes it does work on phones, but it also works on computers. Stop being a peasant and buy a computer.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Hmm, I mean, it works fine for me, but I’ve been viewing stereo images for 15 years, both wall- and cross-eyed, so YMMV. I’ll see if I can quickly edit together some wall-eyed versions of the images for y’all.
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
Yeah my eyes are prolly not used to crossing or something. When trying the finger thing to cross and merge the dots in the middle, it does works but it hurts to much to keep it stable. Will give it a shot on my PC later. I did toy a lot with wall-eyed ones years ago, so I intuitively started doing that until I noticed a lake on top of a hill in the third one :')
And009@lemmynsfw.com 12 hours ago
Mountains are deep, land is puffy. Weirded out of that was ever the purpose.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 11 hours ago
HejMedDig@feddit.dk 20 hours ago
For a lot of people cross eyed views are easier, they would probably give similar complaints for a wall eyed view. It depends a lot on how your eye muscles behave