I tried so long I tried every method, never worked for me. Then eventually I found an image that made it work for me
(Sorry for the Reddit link). How I do it: put your phone screen right before your nose and unfocus your eyes. Then, don’t move your eyes, don’t move your focus, but slowly move the phone away from your face. At about 10-20cm distance, you should be able to see a squirrel with a nut in its hands.
After that it became very easy to do other pictures simply by knowing what to expect (an actual 3d image).
That being said the one above is really hard.
AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 3 days ago
I can only do parallel-view, not crosseyed, those look so surreal that way (inverted height/depth basically)
Jikiya@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is that why I’m seeing things that way? Don’t understand the difference really, but is really odd to see Mt St Helens as a sinkhole instead.
AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 3 days ago
Yupp, I never got the hang of cross-eyed viewing, even with the tips that are around, whereas the “looking through the image” technique is super easy for me, basically just relaxing my eyes. I assume there’s people where it is the other way around, and the cross-eyed method works better for them.
Basically it’s about which image is transferred as information from which of your eyes, and the two different techniques swap the eyes, which also swaps the 3D depth information.
I love the Wellington here viewed the “wrong” way - like the ocean is a massive plateau surrounding the coast, with that strip of developed area rising like another giant wall.
CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Works opposite for me. Cross-eyed versions look correct, and the parallel/wall versions have inverted depth. Same thing with magic eye images, they’re always inverted, like I’m looking into a mold of what the object is supposed to be.