Submitted 1 day ago by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to [deleted]
As a not quite middle aged dude, I only just now figured out how to see magic eye stuff. I tried a couple times in elementary school but didn’t get it so I stopped. Had a few drinks earlier, stumbled on some magic eye pic that I could see clear as day and it blew my mind a little
Yes, but only if I take off my glasses.
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.
Yup.
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
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)
I’m pretty sure the scene from Mallrats was based on me. I stood and stared at those at the mall for days and could never see them. Finally one day - 20ish years later it finally clicked and now I can see them.
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.
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
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.
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.
Absolutely loved them as a kid! Had a quite a few books.
You can do them two different ways. The normal way with the objective 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.
I think I usually saw the inverted version. I could make out the shapes, but they never popped out.
Yes, you have to imagine you are looking into a mirror at yourself and focus your eyes on that place; look past the image.
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 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.
Yes.
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.
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 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.
Nope! But I’ve made them. I needed to go find someone with more normal eyes to test my creations for me, though.
How do you make them???
You need a repeating visual pattern, a fairly busy one. Then you need a greyscale image of what you want the “magic” picture to be. You deform the repeating pattern by the intensity of the greyscale image.
When your two eyes overlay the background images, your brain highlights the distortions and interprets them as depth… at least if your eyes are good enough to give your brain that information in the first place.
If you want to know more, the algorithm to do this is public, and you can set it up in eg. javascript in an afternoon.
Yeah I just relax my eyes and then focus the book without moving my line of sight
Stereograms? Yeah I can. I’ve even made them myself.
How did ya make one?
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 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.
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.
Are those still being made? I haven’t seen one in ages. But yeah I could see em.
Holy shit! I don’t recall them being on this impressive! This thing’s got like half a dozen levels of dept to it!
I have tried to see them so many times but have never even gotten an inkling.
www.reddit.com/r/MagicEye/s/ogZeqQWwpY
This is what made it work for me, I was looking down a hallway then glanced at that pic keeping my head and phone still then letting it focus on the picture as if it was in the distance, the amount of detail is so crazy
With some effort I can even see the image in the small thumbnail on a magazine or webpage. I have not yet been able to see them negative where they go into the screen instead of coming out of it.
can you cross your eyes?
Never, ever been able to see them but then I’m neurodiverse
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
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.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
How far away from the tv were you?