Submitted 3 days ago by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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
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.
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.
Yes, you have to imagine you are looking into a mirror at yourself and focus your eyes on that place; look past the image.
Yup.
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.
Are those still being made? I haven’t seen one in ages. But yeah I could see em.
Never heard of this. What am I supposed to see here?
Holy shit! I don’t recall them being on this impressive! This thing’s got like half a dozen levels of dept to it!
Never, ever been able to see them but then I’m neurodiverse
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
I used to, but its been years since I’ve tried, and I’ve had to get stronger glasses a couple of time since then.
Stand two arm lengths from the picture, holding you arm out in front of you with one finger up, so that your finger is halfway between you and the picture and lined up with near the bottom of it (or you could use any distance and put your finger halfway there).
Both the picture and your finger should now be in your field of view. Focus on the tip of your finger. Maintain your eyes in that focus state and shift your attention from your finger to the picture, remembering not to let your eyes change their focus.
Once you have your eyes stuck into that focus length you should be able to move them around and view all parts of the picture seeing the 3D effect. But if you still have problems you can move your finger to keep it in front of your eyes and in focus while you move your eyes, but you’ll quickly learn how to keep them in the correct state with a little practice.
This also works if you focus on twice the distance of the picture, but most people find the half-distance focus easier.
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?
Not usually, no.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Stereograms? Yeah I can. I’ve even made them myself.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How did ya make one?