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[Jme]

So, I was watching Mallrats tonight when I decided it's time to pause it and see the sailboat that Willam struggles with throughout the film. It took me about 30 seconds but the image finally came into focus, but it didn't appear to be a sailboat, nor a schooner. It was actually a pattern of simple geometric shapes.
Then I googled it, and found this video from 2012 where some guy duplicates the layer in photoshop and uses difference blend mode to reveal the pattern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwLfhh4Sd_Q

Why Kevin Smith? Why?

 

[Trouble]

My whole life has been a lie.

 

[demon]

More proof that kevin smith is a monster.

 

[RowdyReverb]

That is the lamest magic eye ever. A schooner would have been better.

 

[adj_noun]

No no, you just have to squint really hard.

Then you'll see the sailboat.

 

[The Silver]

fuck magic eye, I can't see anything, you're all a bunch of liars

 

[jmdajr]

Shit

 

[adj_noun]

fuck magic eye, I can't see anything, you're all a bunch of liars

Gotta let your vision go loose, man.

 

[Dishwalla]

YOU KNOW WHAT?! THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY! OVER THERE, IT'S JUST A GUY IN A SUIT!

 

[soundscream]

Oh wow.

LOL

 

[Fat4all]

NO

 

[The Beard]

I was never able to see those damn things, and now I'm convinced that everyone who claimed to see the hidden images is completely full of shit.

 

[itwasTuesday]

every year

 

[Man God]

Of course not, it's a scooner.

 

[Mr. X]

I was never able to see those damn things, and now I'm convinced that everyone who claimed to see the hidden images is completely full of shit.

This is how I feel

 

[Dosia]

I used to see them all the time as a kid. Havent tried in 15+ years though to see if I could still do it.

 

[GuyKazama]

Cool how he reveals the image. Smith should have just got a legit sailboat one.

 

[Toxi]

So I googled magiceye.com

 

[sulik]

If magiceye was a competition, I would absolutely destroy.

 

[Manu]

I was never able to see those damn things, and now I'm convinced that everyone who claimed to see the hidden images is completely full of shit.

This is how I feel

TRY ME

 

[RowdyReverb]

So I googled magiceye.com

Really disappointed by the lack of animated gifs. Not even the mailbox for the mailing list link!

 

[supernormal]

I remember the first time I saw one of these things at a friend of my mom's house. It took me almost an hour to see it and it was a amazing. It was the greenish statue of liberty one. Once you see one you sort of get the trick and can see all of them without too much effort.

Edit: That top one is just a big ol' heart.

 

[Toxi]

Really disappointed by the lack of animated gifs. Not even the mailbox for the mailing list link!

Oh don't worry, they're animated! I just took screenshots. Couldn't have 3D FUN without animated gifs!

 

[Link]

This is upsetting me more than it should.

 

[chris121580]

But even more importantly...that kid is BACK on the escalator again!

 

[Ferrio]

Cool how he reveals the image. Smith should have just got a legit sailboat one.

Damn that one was rough to read.

Spoiler

NEOGAF

 

[lastflowers]

I was really hoping he was trolling and it was going to be a dickbutt. I've come to expect less from the Internet. Good job OP.

 

[Brashnir]

But even more importantly...that kid is BACK on the escalator again!

Not a year goes by, man - NOT A YEAR.

 

[Jme]

But even more importantly...that kid is BACK on the escalator again!

I hope his pants get caught and a bloodbath ensues!

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

Boy I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder!

 

[jooey]

I was never able to see those damn things, and now I'm convinced that everyone who claimed to see the hidden images is completely full of shit.

Look at one through a 3DS camera. Instant cheat.

 

[SwiftDeath]

The sailboat is a metaphor

 

[MrCunningham]

One of my friends parents had a magic eye painting framed in their living room (why? Because it was the '90s, that's why.) and no matter how much I looked at it, I could never see the hidden image. I still can't see the hidden images in these things. I Think I am blind to magic eye images. I could never see them.

Spoiler

Not even after smoking a fatty-boombatty blunt could I see a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-tittied mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit!

 

[Red Blaster]

hahahahahahah

you dumb bastard

 

[GuyKazama]

This is a pretty easy one for people that can't see them

 

[Hazmat]

This is shit that should not be.

 

[hateradio]

Related video at the end is a 30 minute video full of "animated" magic eye images.

Kinda weird.

https://youtu.be/_SrUTUuAJRc

Cool how he reveals the image. Smith should have just got a legit sailboat one.

That's a sailboat?

This is a pretty easy one for people that can't see them

That's terrifying.

 

[GuyKazama]

That's a sailboat?

No. I can't draw.

 

[Regiruler]

This is a pretty easy one for people that can't see them

I mean it's visible even without the technique. I would hope it's easy.

 

[SynthFetish]

 

[Crayon]

Of course not, it's a scooner.

came for this.

 

[Vestal]

This is shit that should not be.

Should send it to Ralph lol. IT WOULD BE HILARIOUS IF THEY COVERED IT

 

[Javaman]

I was never able to see those damn things, and now I'm convinced that everyone who claimed to see the hidden images is completely full of shit.

All you gotta do is relax your eyes and look through it, like you are looking at mountains off in the distance.

Look at one through a 3DS camera. Instant cheat.

Holy shit, it actually works. MIND BLOWN.

 

[CharminUltra]

All I see is an old orange dude with a big mouth and tiny hands. I think he's holding something, too. It looks like... a cat?

 

[Media]

These have always been fairly easy for me, though I have to take my glasses off.

 

[EloquentM]

I haven't done these in forever. They use to have them in a lot of dentist offices when I was a kid. Just had to re-teach myself how to do them?

 

[Wingfan19]

Make sure to tell him to fix in Mallrats 2 - Posted today btw

 

[Stallion Dan]

The trick is to stare at the image and cross/uncross your eyes, don't look away or even partly focus on something not the image. Works every time.

 

[TAJ]

For about 30 minutes one night in the '90s I was able to see these and I still don't really believe they work.

I hope his pants get caught and a bloodbath ensues!

I was on an escalator the day after that woman got ground up by one in China and the same plate that she fell through was loose. Chills, man.

 

[Fallen92]

OK so are these images supposed to pop out at you or give a sense of depth like as if the image is sinking in? The 3DS trick makes them pop out but when I look at them with my naked eye they seem to sink in.