Magic Eye pictures - can you see them or not?

― 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