Magic Eye pictures - can you see them or not?

;_;

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

shit yeah, i am king of magic eyes. it's because i fell on my head a lot as a child.

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

I am magic eye disabled

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

As I mentioned on the other thread, I cannot see these at all, and actually went through a period during the early 90's
(when they had a peak of popularity) of thinking that they were nothing but a hoax and that everyone who said they could see them was just messing with me.

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

It would have been better if this poll could have been done in magic eye form

― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

I can see them, though it usually takes me a little while.

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, I said similar in the other thread: i fail at colorblindness dot tests and magic eye pictures alike. colored dots and I just don't get along

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have to say, I love that this was an actual fad in the '90s.

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

I can see them but it takes some doing.

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

Of all the early 90's fads that are still around, it has to be the one that I can't enjoy. I mean, I'd buy the fuck out of a Global Hypercolor t-shirt, but no...

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

i remember being so happy the day i finally figured these out after trying for months and months

― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

I refuse to believe these things work at all.

― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'll take a bargain bin of hypercolor tshirts, snap bands, mood rings, and singing flowerpots over those stupid pictures

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

An interesting business opportunity might be selling glasses that have tiltable lenses so the wearer can see these images without having to cross their eyes.

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

or owning an incinerator :D

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

The shit people used to be into before widespread use of the internet...

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

I wonder if Z_S can make an animated magic eye GIF that just says 'FUCK YOU!', just to get at the people who can see these things easily.

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

PAGING Z S TO THREAD, PAGING Z S TO THREAD

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

And it seems that someone's already made a goatse stereogram...
(NSFW) http://slackdaddy.org/node/619 (NSFW)
...or possibly just taken a picture of a slice of corned beef, I can't tell.

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

so not clicking on that

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

I like Magic Eyes. I would sit around in church and try the same eye trick on the floral patterns of the dresses of women in the pew in front of me. It doesn't lead to 3D dolphins or anything, but sometimes it would result in this otherworldly diorama-type flatness, like their back was a flat void cavity covered in floral print. It was an effect that made three hour church more tolerable.

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp But neither of us can see it!

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp I imagine that a three hour church service would become a flat void floral print cavity without any need for magic eye tricks.

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

no reliably, no

― goole, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

I have to say, I love that this was an actual fad in the '90s.

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:48 PM (12 minutes ago)

OTM, makes this possibly the most '90s album cover:

PEACE Y'ALL

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

fwiw, one of the things i loved best when i was a kid was staring distractedly (they thought i was autistic for a while, gave me special activities - i dunno, maybe i am). anyway, i loved starting at fire, clouds, spinning records & fans, tv static, trees in wind, etc.

one of my very favorite things to stare, though, at was perforated grating. like, any kind of regular patter of holes: chain link fence, radiator screen, whatever. i noticed very young that if you stared "just right" you could separate the perception of each eye and sort of control the overlay. if you synched them up properly, it gave a weird illusion of depth, made it look like the grating was floating out of spacial synch with whatever lay beyond it. entrancing.

decades later, magic eyes came along, and i am SO ready for that shit.

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

^ could use some editorial help here

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol, had forgotten abt that DMB album cover. so dorky. but cool!

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

goatse-gram is incredibly weak and doesn't really look anything like the goat man

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

i love magic eyes, i can see them, i am ready for them to make a comeback right now, tyvm

― sleepingbag, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

In addition to the Magic Eye, the DMB has the '90s mark in the form of a hideous gradient.

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Remember two things: bad, hated

― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

magic eye movie about a snoman and his hat

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

one about a blobby lil guy trying to negotiate a side-scrolling video game labyrinth

someone must have made a stereogram movie that doesn't suck

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

one of my very favorite things to stare, though, at was perforated grating. like, any kind of regular patter of holes: chain link fence, radiator screen, whatever. i noticed very young that if you stared "just right" you could separate the perception of each eye and sort of control the overlay. if you synched them up properly, it gave a weird illusion of depth, made it look like the grating was floating out of spacial synch with whatever lay beyond it. entrancing.

Yeah! The pattern of black dots on white fabric on the headliner of my parent's hold VW Squareback was perfect for this. My mom said she used to do that with the ceiling tiles in church when she was a kid. (And I used to stare in a certain way until I could see bright auras around people in church. Nothing like boring ass church for encouraging kids to perform ocular neurobiology experiments.)

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

snoball you realize this thread is going to be my worst nightmare

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

Those stereogram movies are a fun novelty!

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's like watching a TV where you can hear the sound but the picture is just static.

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

OTM, makes this possibly the most '90s album cover:

Man, I was really hoping that there would be two secret objects hidden in the image, but no, it's just a hand with two raised fingers.

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

one of my very favorite things to stare, though, at was perforated grating. like, any kind of regular patter of holes:

hi buffandmaxsmom

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

I can do them sometimes, others I can't. I had problems as a child focusing my eyes, and was given these focusing exercises to do, so it's hard sometimes to unlearn what I learned. /Yoda

First time I remember seeing one was on the insert for the cassette of Poster Children's "Tool of the Man," which came out in 1993.

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

talking dog in the ry-krisp is cool, but i don't get how they make it tell me to kill that lady

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

but no, it's just a hand with two raised fingers.

Hoping that the hand is oriented English 'V' insult style...

― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

mr. pitt's insight is right: the trick is DEEEEP focus

i have this stereogram book that claims that picasso was really into these and that's what drove him mad during his twilight years.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

I could never explain how, must be muscle memory, but I basically adjust my eyes to instantly see them in as quick as a blink. I have a few useless talents like this...

― Evan, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

one of my very favorite things to stare, though, at was perforated grating. like, any kind of regular patter of holes: chain link fence, radiator screen, whatever. i noticed very young that if you stared "just right" you could separate the perception of each eye and sort of control the overlay. if you synched them up properly, it gave a weird illusion of depth, made it look like the grating was floating out of spacial synch with whatever lay beyond it. entrancing.

Yeah! The pattern of black dots on white fabric on the headliner of my parent's hold VW Squareback was perfect for this. My mom said she used to do that with the ceiling tiles in church when she was a kid. (And I used to stare in a certain way until I could see bright auras around people in church. Nothing like boring ass church for encouraging kids to perform ocular neurobiology experiments.)

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:21 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow OK so I'm not the only one who does this.

― Evan, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

in thee 90s I spent ages being unable to see these, thinking it was a hoax etc, and finally (after a lot of pressing my nose right into them and moving backwards very slowly - repeat until something happens) managed to start seeing them, though it was quite hard work and some of them just wouldn't work for me

now it is not the 90s I am out of practice, or maybe it's that I've since developed a weird eyesight prescription; just looked at a couple and could see one (eventually) but the other would start to pop out into weird unconnected fragments and then collapse again

― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

GAH I HATE THAT GIF SO MUCH

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 00:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

better?

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 11 May 2012 00:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

DON'T YOU PATRONIZE ME

:)

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

are magic eyes triangle wave? lamp, gr80, whiney, help me out here

― goole, Friday, 11 May 2012 00:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

fuck no, never worked for me and it drives me nutz

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 11 May 2012 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

i too like staring at things

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 11 May 2012 00:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

are magic eyes triangle wave? lamp, gr80, whiney, help me out here

(i am none of those but) shit yeah. speaking of, when does altered zones nostalgia kick in? i've got a few weeks free in september.

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 11 May 2012 01:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

can't do these

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 11 May 2012 02:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

I can never see them. In HS I worked a summer at a shop that had one of those books and I spent three months staring at it and still couldn't see it while other people would pick it up and see them all straight away. I was like Ethan Suplee with the sailboat magic eye in Mallrats.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 11 May 2012 02:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

<3

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well if any of you need a magic eye cracked let me know I offer faster service than any competitor or your money back.

― Evan, Friday, 11 May 2012 04:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

That moving gif was the easiest one to see, for me.

― Mark G, Friday, 11 May 2012 06:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

I could never ever get these to work and then one day, I got so *tired* staring at one that my eyes all unfocussed and relaxed... and BAM, it swam into view suddenly.

Its impossible to explain how to see it but eventually you kinda work out how, you have to really learn to fight the urge to focus on the dots.

What I find trippy is once it goes all completel 3-d, you dont have to concentrate to make it stay that way - it just does, and if you move yr head around, the 3d image moves too!

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 11 May 2012 06:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Like even blinking doesnt "undo" it, but if you look away and back, that does.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 11 May 2012 06:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Cant for the life of me make the animated one work, that said, the moving dots are way too distracting

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 11 May 2012 06:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

these have never ever worked for me, i suspect because my left eye is so much weaker than the right

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 11 May 2012 07:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Never seen any of them, but I'm short-sighted in one eye and long-sighted in the other

― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 11 May 2012 08:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

One time I stared at a Magic Eye book for over an hour until I finally saw it... I had an awful headache for the rest of the day.

Soooo I'm not sure how to answer the question.

― billstevejim, Friday, 11 May 2012 08:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh wait.. I just saw the shark. Maybe I forgot that I knew how to see it. lol

― billstevejim, Friday, 11 May 2012 08:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

― billstevejim, Friday, 11 May 2012 08:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

sponge wax belly

― Touché Gödel (ledge), Friday, 11 May 2012 08:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

in thee 90s I spent ages being unable to see these, thinking it was a hoax etc, and finally (after a lot of pressing my nose right into them and moving backwards very slowly - repeat until something happens) managed to start seeing them, though it was quite hard work and some of them just wouldn't work for me

now it is not the 90s I am out of practice, or maybe it's that I've since developed a weird eyesight prescription; just looked at a couple and could see one (eventually) but the other would start to pop out into weird unconnected fragments and then collapse again

― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:53 PM

― The Unbassful Serpent (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 May 2012 11:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Christ, I tried to keep myself from crossing my eyes and just let myself relaxing into seeing the topthread link, and it went all acid flashback on me and started grooving. Watery eyes.

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

There, I got it. But I just crossed my eyes the other way to make it pop out rather than in. I am a failure ;_;

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Well I don't even know if you can cross your eyes two different ways? But usally my right eye dominantly crosses, so I let my left one 'lead.' Naturally I tried to look in a mirror to see if it actually looks different, but um, I was cross-eyed..

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

i saw one of these in 2007 and was really disappointed

― thomp, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

The first few are entertaining if it's easy, but I can't imagine going through collective hours of struggle and headaches, and then, years later, THE BIG REVEAL:

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, crossing your eyes gives you an inverse of the magic eye image (talked about this on the other thread). like in the image below, if you cross your eyes, focusing on the space between yourself and the picture plane, you'll only see a shark-shaped cavity in the surface of the image. but if stare off at a point beyond the picture plane, you'll see a a three-dimensional shark hovering above the picture plane. cheggiddoot:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Stereogram_Tut_Random_Dot_Shark.png

If I cross them, and then do it "again" my eyes separate the image into the separate planes of distance on which they are constructed. During my psychadelic college years, I called this 'going deeper' and tried to do it w/ non-magic eye stuff

― remy bean, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, you can generate weird effects by controlling the amount of overlap between the images seen by each eye. much easier to do when crossing your eyes and inverting the stereogram than when looking into the depths beyond it and seeing it "properly".

― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

Don Lawrence's 'Storm' has an entire book with Magic Eye backgrounds. Hmm.

― I must be old, I recognise nobody in ITV2 idents (aldo), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 12 May 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Holy shit, I just made the shark work.

It's like a colored sponge that's been dug out, a hole. No contour lines or anything.

It only took me 20 years, but I finally got one to work. I was even able to "hold" on to it too, unlike those zig-zag trippy LSD things that make everything wavy for 10 seconds.

First time I remember seeing one was on the insert for the cassette of Poster Children's "Tool of the Man," which came out in 1993.

Had the inverted flag cover on our living room wall for awhile </so_90s>

― pplains, Saturday, 12 May 2012 05:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 13 May 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

Almost 50/50, interestng!

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Monday, 14 May 2012 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I voted no... and then shortly afterwards finally managed to make it work after 20 years of trying

― Chris S, Monday, 14 May 2012 00:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

Can't see anything but a bunch of dots, despite trying the various suggestions upthread

― Lee626, Monday, 14 May 2012 00:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

Holy shit, I just made the shark work.

It's like a colored sponge that's been dug out, a hole. No contour lines or anything.

― pplains, Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:36 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was me for the next two hours after I made that post.

― pplains, Monday, 14 May 2012 04:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

sissymanwhore has posted some really difficult magic eye pics (the trickiest one is the baby)

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 14 May 2012 07:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's always the baby

― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Monday, 14 May 2012 07:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://maxgif.com/hz

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

is this really a magic eye or am I just going to die

― pplains, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

die magically

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

while focusing on the middle distance

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

seize today

― goole, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

That can't be a proper magic eye because I could read it.

― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^

― banal like anal (snoball), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Seize(ure) Today

― banal like anal (snoball), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh and I just remembered a funny magic eye story. Early 90's, one of those 'we're selling posters and stuff in this temporarily empty retail unit for a couple of weeks' places. They had a magic eye poster on the inside of the window, stuck so that it was facing outside. There was a dude standing in front of it, lecturing a gathering crowd about how to see these kind of pictures. "It's easy..." he said, "All you do is focus on the window, and then take a few steps backwards." He did so, tripping over the kerb and falling into the street.
To me it was as funny as 'Del Boy falling through the bar' is to others.

― banal like anal (snoball), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

Did everybody else take a few steps backward and trip over the curb too?

― pplains, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

No, this was in England. So everyone stood around chortling and saying things like "oh you silly arse", etc.. Then a small boy ran down the street with a hoop and stick, and a gentleman rode past on a penny farthing.

― banal like anal (snoball), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink