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the best optical illusion
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It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.
I find this one much easier to toggle between the two than the similar ballerina one.
Why would that affect marksmen? Long range looking with 1 eye through a scope at a single plane of focus vs 2 eyes close range focusing on certain planes to see the image
Heh, it's not warping. It is really rotating towards the right, and that is the correct perspective. If you view it as turning towards the left, then the arms look like they're warping, breaking the illusion.
I have never been able to do the Magic Eye stuff, but after a few beers, I finally can see it.i saw a couple of sharks, maybe a car, and a Christmas tree with dogs.
I do not get the wireframe girl. It just looks like she goes one direction and then turns back around and goes the other. Not nearly as mind bending as the balet dancer.
I do not get the wireframe girl. It just looks like she goes one direction and then turns back around and goes the other. Not nearly as mind bending as the balet dancer.
whitemex88
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I swear I will see one of these before I die. It's in the bucket listLoved Magic Eye as a kid!
Little Green Yoda
Member
:3I didn't see this classic. My favorite because it's a three dimensional object.
I want one of these.
DrForester
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PipefishUK
Banned
On that original one they look the same to me anyway?
I'm seeing all these magic eye ones kind of inside-out. Inverted. Dunno why, maybe it's because I'm viewing on a mobile? I used to be able to see them all instantly.
I'm seeing all these magic eye ones kind of inside-out. Inverted. Dunno why, maybe it's because I'm viewing on a mobile? I used to be able to see them all instantly.
Alcotholic
Banned
This one is super dope.
VanquishUK
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I didn't see this classic. My favorite because it's a three dimensional object.
This is the only one of those magic eye ones I've been able to see. Is it because I'm familiar with the images or is it just simpler?
This is the only one of those magic eye ones I've been able to see. Is it because I'm familiar with the images or is it just simpler?
I see no difference between this one and the vulture one just above. In fact I found the vulture one a little easier.
This is the only one of those magic eye ones I've been able to see. Is it because I'm familiar with the images or is it just simpler?
Possibly simpler. You just have to get your eyes used to it for a couple of seconds. Once they're in tune you will be able to see them almost instantly
This is always what I think about when I see one of these. Elaine taking the picture and breaking it in half.
DrForester
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This is the only one of those magic eye ones I've been able to see. Is it because I'm familiar with the images or is it just simpler?
Simpler maybe because it's just the Star Wars Logo, which is straight lines. How well are you able to see the X-Wing at the bottom?
amdb00mer
Member
Tis the season?
This one was cool. You can really see the individual ornaments as well as the doggies.
amdb00mer
Member
Jesus
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It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.
If I'm reading the post under the image she's making full rotations in my peripheral view but as soon as I glance up at her she immediately starts moving in the opposite direction, stops halfway and turn the other direction, over and over. I'll have to play around with it later but this one is dope!
Mr Waluigi
Banned
Nope, can't make this work, even with this
I can only understand it as the left one
Meh, I must be dumb
I've spent an hour going through these magic eye things and all I got was a headache.
Holy shit
EdwardTivrusky
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I'll second that! Especially the people who can see that "Magic Eye" bullshit. It's the devil's lies and the damning evidence is in the name, "Magic Eye". Yeah, we're onto you!
waveuponwave
Member
Nooo it worked once with the sharks, but I don't know how I did it and I can't see them anymore :/
this is worse than not seeing them at all...
this is worse than not seeing them at all...
ratcliffja
Member
I can't do Magic Eye, but I also can't cross my eyes even if I try to follow my finger all the way to my nose. My eyes just can't focus after a certain point. It's probably why I also get a headache from most 3D movies.
Halcyon
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That's the thing, it had nothing to do with crossing your eyes. You're just trying to create the effect of putting your hand sorta in front of you, then focus on something behind your hand that you can see through your fingers. You will notice that you have "two fingers/hands" because you're getting input from each eyes perspective.
You have to learn how to do that on command and be able to look at one of the duplicates without pulling it in focus.
Crossing your eyes puts nothing at all in focus which is not what you want.
The reflection on the floor is killing the effect.
phillipgessert
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Crossing your eyes is actually the inverse of what you want. It'll make the image go inward instead of outward.
For the Magic Eye stuff - focus on something farther away than the image. Then, slowly move the image into view without changing your focus. That worked for me when I was a kid and I get them with ease now. Another hint is that you want to look "through" the image, or try imagine you're focusing on something *behind* the image.
Morrigan Stark
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Shut up with your advice all of you. I tried them all. Crossing, un-crossing, focusing away, focusing on, starting close and moving slowly backwards, doing the opposite, blah blah blah. I tried them all.
Nothing works. Nothing.
It's all a lie. I'm on to you!
Still won't work on those pics. IT'S ALL A LIE
Nothing works. Nothing.
It's all a lie. I'm on to you!
I'm with you, bro/sis.
Yes, I can see the two fingers/hands.
Still won't work on those pics. IT'S ALL A LIE
Halcyon
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So what you're trying to accomplish is making the flat plane of the image your fingers in that situation. You're focusing on something behind the image, but putting your attention on the double.
In the image there are duplicates of the same "hidden" bits of information, which creates 4 when you diverge your eyes. The two in the middle overlap creating only 3 when the illusion occurs.
godamit it's so easy just do it WOMAN, AND PICK UP YOUR CLOTHES OFF THE FLOOR.
sorry i just had flashbacks to this conversation with my wife.
maquiladora
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Stop thinking about it too much. Just relax your eyes. Bring your eyes closer to the image, let your eyes "unfocus" naturally while not focusing on the image itself. Pretend you are looking in the distance beyond it, like through a window. Don't think about it too much. You'll get it!
Morrigan Stark
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You're literally ignoring the part where I said I tried them all, including all of that. >_<
Y'all lying.
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It's going clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time.
Now she's just going back and forth...
edit: This works because of of the relation between sine and revolutions.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
I have special eyes.
While crossing, try to make two of the identical patterns line up.
Example: Try the Star Wars one in post #463. While slowly crossing your eyes, control your double vision so that Leia's heads overlap between the two images you see. Then look for the full picture. It's
STAR on top and WARS on the bottom. The word STAR is directly below Leia's neck.
IndoAssassin
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Don't cross your eyes. Move your head as close to the screen as possible so the image creates a double image stacked on top each other. Keep your eyes focused straight ahead till the image becomes less blurry. Then pull your head slowly away from the screen. You should see some as you pull away till you can see the whole screen. The first several times you will lose the image, but eventually you will be able to see it. If you keep doing it.
Oh my god thank you
Kinda like the cupcake dog.
This is the best advice damn
With magic eye, you just need to learn to zone out. Let your eyes relax so that you aren't really focusing on the picture itself. (As others have pointed out, you are basically moving your focal point behind the object toward infinity.) To get a feeling of what it's like, find a dirty spot on the surface of a clear window to focus on. Then change your focus from the spot on the window to some object outside the window. When you focus on something outside the window, the dirt spot on the window surface will become 2 spots (one per eye) in your foreground vision. The further away the object that you are focusing on outside the window, the further the gap between the 2 spots will appear to be. If you focus on something just barely outside the window, the spots will be close. And if you focus on something far, like a mountain, the spots will spread to their max distance (max distance being about the spacing between your eyes.)
That's what you need to mimic for magic eye. If you focus beyond the magic eye image, the magic eye image will split into two images causing the pattern to overlap thus producing a 3D image. Once you learn the technique, you can see the effect almost instantly.
If you cross your eyes instead (moving the focal point in front of the image), the pattern will also overlap, but instead it will produce an inverted image. This is not what you want, but it will give you a sense of the illusion.
That's what you need to mimic for magic eye. If you focus beyond the magic eye image, the magic eye image will split into two images causing the pattern to overlap thus producing a 3D image. Once you learn the technique, you can see the effect almost instantly.
If you cross your eyes instead (moving the focal point in front of the image), the pattern will also overlap, but instead it will produce an inverted image. This is not what you want, but it will give you a sense of the illusion.
I used to view Magic Eye puzzles the same way, like cut-outs in a sheet of paper, rather than popping out towards me. It was because I was focusing on a point in front of the puzzle rather than behind it, crossing my eyes instead of relaxing them. I found it much easier to do that.
Nowadays, it's the opposite - I find it harder to cross my eyes and see cut-outs than to let them relax and see the image popping out towards me.
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