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[Icyflamez96]

I'm sorry OP but i'm a little frustrated that you didn't post the video demonstration of that illusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Sen1HTu5o

 

[BolognaSoup]

T-Rex illusion is pretty freaky.

Aaaaah! Oh my God this awesome.

 

[Summer Haze]

Fuck those magic eye things! ARRRRGH!

My Grandma used to try and help me to see them when I was a kid, and I just couldn't do it. All of my family were there, all saying they could see a tiger, or a flower, or some shit...and I'd be setting there thinking " these murrfuckas are trolling me".

And to this day I can't see a thing apart from patterns. I stare at them until things start to move around slightly...but then nothing. No matter how long I stare.

Now my eyes feel all messed up. Lmao.

 

[Renta]

A car? I'm on my tablet, so I can see the 3D effect but it's a little hard to see the 'cut out' shape.

I guess it's a car. I was thinking the pizza hut logo until I saw the wheels

 

[Dryk]

As always, mind blowing.

I can never get this one to reverse, it either does it while I'm not looking or I see if flash out of the corner of my eye

EDIT: In fact I just had the one in this tab and the one in my Wikipedia tab going opposite directions

 

[adj_noun]

And to this day I can't see a thing apart from patterns. I stare at them until things start to move around slightly...but then nothing. No matter how long I stare.

Just staring isn't going to do it. Gotta get your vision all...floaty...maaaaaan....

 

[N0VAM0D]

I'M SO ANGRY i still can't do the magic eye puzzles

but I can make the spinning lady change direction easily

 

[Fried Food]

lmao the human brain is so messed up lol

 

[DECK'ARD]

Here's a good training one:

Top left and bottom right are holes, the bottom right one is a bullseye style hole.

Bottom left and top right are hills.

If the holes are hills and the hills are holes you are crosseyed and focussing in front of the image rather than behind.

When you get a bullseye hole in the bottom right you've got it

 

[Summer Haze]

Just staring isn't going to do it. Gotta get your vision all...floaty...maaaaaan....

OMFGGGGG, I DID IT!

Omg....after all these years. That was insane! I got up and went right up to my screen and then it just changed into a 3D image, with depth to it, and I saw the shark. Holy shit.

Oh man, I am so happy right now. Lmao. Now I can finally go to sleep.

 

[Log4Girlz]

lmao the human brain is so messed up lol

The brain is meat. Our entire reality is a construct of our brain. All construct of the brain are well, just rearrangement of said brain. So all of reality is meat. The earth is meat. Our sight is meat. Emotions are just meat.

 

[mantidor]

I'M SO ANGRY i still can't do the magic eye puzzles

but I can make the spinning lady change direction easily

Trick!

If you have a glossy screen, this is going to be easier, stare at your reflection in the monitor instead of the picture, until it gets blurred, and then voila, it comes to life!

It can take a long time, the very first stereogram I ever saw was behind a glass window and the reflection stare thing was amazingly helpful. I can now see them almost instantly.

 

[Razorback]

I'm sorry OP but i'm a little frustrated that you didn't post the video demonstration of that illusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Sen1HTu5o

Wait a minute. The illusion from the image version of this happens because of the shadow that covers the tiles.

But in this video if she removed one of the dark tiles into the light, it should change color, because it's now exposed to light.

There are shenanigans afoot in this video.

 

[Renta]

Thank you for this, gaf. I think I can die with no regrets now

 

[Tesseract]

The brain is meat. Our entire reality is a construct of our brain. All construct of the brain are well, just rearrangement of said brain. So all of reality is meat. The earth is meat. Our sight is meat. Emotions are just meat.

intredasting

 

[Summer Haze]

This one's good.

I can't see shit in this one, though. The weird depth/3D thing happens, and it looks like there's some sort of outline...but I can't make out what it is. It just looks like the same image as when I look at it normally, but with layers.

 

[Ajemsuhgao]

Nope. There's two ways of viewing stereograms; convergent and divergent. Convergent is crossing your eyes such that they focus on a point in front of the image. Divergent is focusing through the image at a point behind, so you're actually uncrossing them. Magic Eye branded stereograms are all divergent; this one is also divergent, although I don't know if it's a Magic Eye one.

If you view a stereogram the 'wrong' way, it'll be inverted; content that is meant to be close will look distant, and vice-versa.

Holy shit. I never knew this. I always assumed I was doing these right and that you were supposed to see a sunken in outline of the objects.

Mind fucking blown.

 

[terrene]

T-Rex illusion is pretty freaky.

 

[AbsolutBro]

Here's a good training one:

>snip<

Top left and bottom right are holes, the bottom right one is a bullseye style hole.

Bottom left and top right are hills.

If the holes are hills and the hills are holes you are crosseyed and focussing in front of the image rather than behind.

When you get a bullseye hole in the bottom right you've got it

Bottom right looks like a goddamn eye looking back at me, not a bullseye. Looks more oblong/elliptical than circular.

Anyway, another animooted:

 

[triplestation]

Loved Magic Eye as a kid!

oh my fucking god

you just opened up a drawer in my mind that has been close since i was like 3 or 4, holy shit

i had these books with these things in them and since that time i had completely forgotten about them until now

christ almighty thats spooky

 

[Scrooged]

I prefer this example of the same illusion. The A and B squares are the same color.

Was going to post this.

 

[ipukespiders]

Great thread and now I'm blind.

 

[Fun Factor]

Bottom right looks like a goddamn eye looking back at me, not a bullseye. Looks more oblong/elliptical than circular.

Anyway, another animooted:

What the hell am I looking at?

 

[maquiladora]

What the hell am I looking at?

Swimming shark.

 

[Scalemail Ted]

Apparently there's a stereogram music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKtp3XHn38

 

[Kaldea]

I LOVE Magic Eye pictures. I was the only one I knew who could see them almost effortlessly and it made me feel weirdly special.

 

[harmonize]

Apparently there's a stereogram music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKtp3XHn38

anybody having trouble seeing these, watch this video. the instructions at the beginning makes it very easy to learn how.

 

[DECK'ARD]

I can't see shit in this one, though. The weird depth/3D thing happens, and it looks like there's some sort of outline...but I can't make out what it is. It just looks like the same image as when I look at it normally, but with layers.

It's a complicated one that one, might be easier if you know what you are looking for ...

Spoiler

It's a person running in front of Tower Bridge holding the Olympic torch

 

[maquiladora]

Spoiler

believe!

 

[Log4Girlz]

So sad, I really cannot do divergent at all.

 

[DECK'ARD]

Spoiler

believe!

Awwww

 

[Nudull]

My brain taught itself to never trust magic eye pictures again after I went to a Tales from the Crypt website, one time.

 

[Yrael]

I love Magic Eye pictures. When I was a child I always saw them as 2D cut-outs into the picture...but now as an adult I find it easier to view them as 3D objects popping towards the viewer. I prefer the latter.

 

[Skux]

Movement without movement

 

[N0VAM0D]

Trick!

If you have a glossy screen, this is going to be easier, stare at your reflection in the monitor instead of the picture, until it gets blurred, and then voila, it comes to life!

It can take a long time, the very first stereogram I ever saw was behind a glass window and the reflection stare thing was amazingly helpful. I can now see them almost instantly.

Hmm, interesting. I'll keep practicing! Thank you!

 

[WooHooAlex]

Tis the season?

I see a row of banana men hunched over in a chair with their legs crossed.
Did I get It?

 

[Epix]

 

[tomjr]

Movement without movement

Some of these images might be from this page:

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

He's got some great images.

 

[Korten]

T-Rex illusion is pretty freaky.

That's... Wow...

 

[kris.]

Loved Magic Eye as a kid!

I've literally never been able to do this until today. I always thought everyone else was crazy. Holy shit. My mind hurts.

 

[Skux]

Some of these images might be from this page:

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

He's got some great images.

oh wow

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Love the magic eye ones. They just take a few minutes of training and anyone can get it.

 

[Icyflamez96]

how the heck does this work

 

[rjinaz]

how the heck does this work

The image changes after the white flash. The bar gets bigger.

Er or maybe not. It's how they do this one though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqHJTY8Fhk the pieces grow.

 

[Skux]

how the heck does this work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb2hCmc2xso

The illusion takes advantage of the gap between the chocolate squares.

 

[Ferrio]

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That is a perl script. It is a stereogram. It is also valid code. To generate a stereogram. In the form of a perl script. Which can generate stereograms. And so ad infinitum.

Appropriate picture.

Oddly enough I can't see these when they're on my TV.

 

[mantidor]

how the heck does this work

The same as this one.

Spoiler

These aren't actual triangles. The split-and-put-together-again bar is not an actual rectangle.

 

[Iolo]

And there's also this little utter beauty that still blows my mind:

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That is a perl script. It is a stereogram. It is also valid code. To generate a stereogram. In the form of a perl script. Which can generate stereograms. And so ad infinitum.

Damn, that is awesome.

 

[Gattsu25]

I prefer this example of the same illusion. The A and B squares are the same color.

I call bullshit on this one.

 

[Renta]

For those still having trouble, this should help. Try to cross your eyes so a third square appears in the middle of the two at the top. Then keep your eyes relaxed in that position. If done correctly, you should see the 3D outline of something in the stars.