Magic Eye pictures - can you see them or not?

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

animated version, très chouette:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Stereogram_Tut_Animated_Shark_Small.gif

Omg I feel you have changed my life in some small and no longer very significant fashion! Still having trouble doing it the right way though, I can snap into the eyes crossed view in a moment but after ten minutes trying the other way I'm only just starting to see it.

GAH I HATE THAT GIF SO MUCH

http://www.wingnuttoons.com/jabbranim.gif

better?

DON'T YOU PATRONIZE ME

:)

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

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

i too like staring at things

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.

can't do these

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61cG6ONsBlL.jpg

sponge wax belly

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

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.

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 ;_;

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..

i saw one of these in 2007 and was really disappointed

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:

http://joyerickson.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/magic-eye-key-0014.jpg

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

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".

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

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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>

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Almost 50/50, interestng!

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

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

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.

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

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s_30zQFJp4g/SAJmwFnvqUI/AAAAAAAADs4/H-9xUDsztpU/s320/2001Keir%2B01.jpg

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

it's always the baby

http://maxgif.com/hz

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

die magically

while focusing on the middle distance

seize today

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

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