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[Ventara]

Save it to your desktop and open it up in paint.

Yeah, I think I'll give that a try once I get home. I just find this hard to believe and they look completely different to me.

 

[Jade Knight 08]

They just float.

It's fucking weird because when I see the full sized image I can see 5 floating coins, but when I look at the thumbnail, I see ten floating coins. My brain

Ok. thanks for the reply.

 

[EroticSushi]

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

Anyway, another animooted:

This animated one is the only one I can see. I just kinda get "lost" looking into it and it slowly came to me. Looks like I'm staring at the 3D screen on a 3DS. Pretty awesome. Can't seem to do it with the still images though.

Sorry, but it just looks like it's a gradual change from one colour to the next going up and down that. Can someone crop it and put them side by side?

They're indeed the same.

 

[Superflat]

Sorry, but it just looks like it's a gradual change from one colour to the next going up and down that. Can someone crop it and put them side by side?

Isolated the two and blew em up for a better look:

 

[Boom Boom Pow]

Isolated the two and blew em up for a better look:

gah dammit brain! how??!

 

[Doopliss]

They just float.

It's fucking weird because when I see the full sized image I can see 5 floating coins, but when I look at the thumbnail, I see ten floating coins. My brain

With the smaller image you're making each coin overlap with another two places to the side, instead of one directly adjacent to it. Because it's smaller you need your sight to converge at a point less far past the screen to make it look the same.

 

[openrob]

This one annoys me

Like you can see it spin both ways, yes? But in reality it obviously can't do that. So does it actually spin one way or another, or is it just complete mind fuckery

Well it can be either way because it is a sillouhette, were not sure
A lot like this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKa0eaKsdA0

 

[FLAguy954]

Loved Magic Eye as a kid!

Tis the season?

Holy fucking shit, I SEE! (viewing 3d movies cross-eyed gave me some much needed training)

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

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

No f'ing way

 

[Irishmantis]

They just float.

It's fucking weird because when I see the full sized image I can see 5 floating coins, but when I look at the thumbnail, I see ten floating coins. My brain

Think thats weird i dont know if you wear glasses, but if you do try this

Put your glasses close to the screen but keep your head back till you get the magnified look, and slowly bring them closer to your head it will instantly work without trying to concentrate so great for people who cant see them, this will definite work

and just to fuck with your head another little bit, after doing this where you see the 3D effect in your glasses, slowly move them off and on your head, to where through the glasses you see them pop out, but when you move them off your eyes the pic is back flat and then slowly slide them back down and it goes back to the pop out look, like your glasses somehow saved it, its crazy ha

 

[entremet]

A new challenger appears!

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

 

[Chanser]

That dress.

 

[RandomExpletive]

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

AW FUCK it just switched, thats cool... ow... my head

oh god its getting weirder the more times it happens

 

[Chopper]

A new challenger appears!

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

That is mental.

 

[The Silver]

again, fuck magic eye I could never see anything.


you have no idea how rectalfrustrated this makes me

 

[Dicer]

A new challenger appears!

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

TF TF TF TF WTF....

Madness!

 

[Haly]

A new challenger appears!
It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

This is a bit easier to control than the spinning silhouette one. I can switch directions just by closing my eyes and "priming" the image in my head, whereas the other one was much more difficult to manipulate.

Also why is it always women in these illusions?

 

[Dicer]

This is a bit easier to control than the spinning silhouette one. I can switch directions just by closing my eyes and "priming" the image in my head, whereas the other one was much more difficult to manipulate.

Also why is it always women in these illusions?

Curves help with the illusion, that would be my guess...

 

[Veritigo_X]

A new challenger appears!

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

I can't make it go a full rotation. It keeps alternating around halfway. I felt like I had better control over the other spinning woman similar to this.

 

[emb]

A new challenger appears!

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

These are the most frustrating ones! I can see both but I can't rationalize why or switch on command.

(Also, wow, nice time gap until that bump. It works though, optical illusions are forever.)

 

[The Silver]

This is a bit easier to control than the spinning silhouette one. I can switch directions just by closing my eyes and "priming" the image in my head, whereas the other one was much more difficult to manipulate.

Also why is it always women in these illusions?

everyone knows that boobs enhance illusions, dicks just crash everything back to reality

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

Years of magic eye of a kid have trained my eyes to perfectly cross and go out of focus properly enough to see 'em in a matter of seconds.

 

[Haly]

Oh god I can't make see spin anymore. She just goes from right to left with her head tilted down and then left to right with her head tilted up.

FUCK.

 

[TheSeks]

I can't make it go a full rotation. It keeps alternating around halfway. I felt like I had better control over the other spinning woman similar to this.

I could only see it going counter/anti-clockwise for like five minutes and then I saw it doing half-and-half like you.

So you're in a better position than some of us?

 

[SlickShoesRUCrazy]

I can't make it go a full rotation. It keeps alternating around halfway. I felt like I had better control over the other spinning woman similar to this.

Same

 

[Mr. Poolman]

I can't make it go a full rotation. It keeps alternating around halfway. I felt like I had better control over the other spinning woman similar to this.

Fix your eyes on the nose, is easier to keep track of the full revolution that way.

 

[Pejo]

Holy shit I love magic eye puzzles. This thread is the first time I've seen the animated ones. Really cool. Subscribing to this thread for sure.

 

[AlStrong]

I can't make it go a full rotation. It keeps alternating around halfway. I felt like I had better control over the other spinning woman similar to this.

According to Facebook, this means you have trouble finishing goals in life or you never see things through.

 

[CopperPuppy]

Now I'm stuck in "only halfway" purgatory, too!

WHAT HAVE YOU ALL DONE TO ME.

 

[Haly]

Now I'm stuck in "only halfway" purgatory, too!

WHAT HAVE YOU ALL DONE TO ME.

Fix your eyes on the nose, is easier to keep track of the full revolution that way.

This works.

Don't focus on the eyes or the chin, they make it easier for the illusion to "flip".

 

[reKon]

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

wtf... I just cut and paste in one note and moved shit around. Still can't wrap my ahead around this.

 

[Kiko]

My head. It hurts now. Too much spinning

 

[TheOMan]

A new challenger appears!

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

This one is messing me up - wow. I made one full rotation and then everything started going haywire.

 

[jombag]

I can see her doing a full rotation by just concentrating on one of her shoulder

 

[Cth]

If one of you Simpson fans can find it, there's a gif of Homer driving where you can trick your brain into seeing him speeding forward or speeding backwards (using the same trick as the woman's head above)

There's others like subway trains, etc.

 

[Septimus Prime]

Oh god I can't make see spin anymore. She just goes from right to left with her head tilted down and then left to right with her head tilted up.

FUCK.

Let me break it some more for you. Get to a state where you see her face flipping back and forth, and then watch her torso. Now, her face will swivel back and forth, while her torso does complete revolutions, breaking her neck each time.

 

[TAJ]

That dress.

I can see three different sets of colors in that picture if I think about the environment in different ways.

 

[Icefire1424]

Thanks everyone, I've spent the last half hour in this thread and now have a headache. And am very, very aware how inept my brain is.

 

[lastplayed]

If one of you Simpson fans can find it, there's a gif of Homer driving where you can trick your brain into seeing him speeding forward or speeding backwards (using the same trick as the woman's head above)

There's others like subway trains, etc.

 

[mentallyinept]

A new challenger appears!

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

This one is cool, but you can see the "wire frame" warping as it rotates, look at the arm stump, it expands and contracts as it rotates.

 

[Rocketz]

Ok I couldn't get the spining girl for the longest time but I finally got it today.

 

[Akuun]

Loved Magic Eye as a kid!

I loved these things when I was younger. I had always been able to do a thing with my eyes to see double vision at will, but never had any use for it until these things showed up. The guy showing me a Magic Eye book was seeing those images really fast instead of using the method prescribed in the book, so I took a guess and tried doing my eye thing on it and bam, it worked.

Much later, I figured out the thing I was doing was changing the focal point of my eyes to something past whatever I was looking at, which happened to be exactly the trick to these things.

 

[adj_noun]

Much later, I figured out the thing I was doing was changing the focal point of my eyes to something past whatever I was looking at, which happened to be exactly the trick to these things.

Yeah, you just loosen your focus a bit and bam. I've heard of people crossing their eyes but that never worked for me.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Saw it rotating both ways at the same time. Trippy shit.

 

[Skelter]

What am I looking at?

 

[Timeaisis]

Great, I stared at that wire frame one so much I can only see two half rotations.

 

[EBreda]

Subbed!

 

[Appleman]

Yeah, you just loosen your focus a bit and bam. I've heard of people crossing their eyes but that never worked for me.

You can cross your eyes and it's easier, but the image will be inset instead of popping out which can make it harder to determine what it is

 

[Cap'n Cook]

I can't make it go a full rotation. It keeps alternating around halfway. I felt like I had better control over the other spinning woman similar to this.

Avoid eye contact and just stare at her boobs.

 

[ss_lemonade]

A new challenger appears!

It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.

I first ran into this type of illusion as a kid, looking at the shadow of my own hand lol.