Magic Eye pictures - can you see them or not?

;_;

shit yeah, i am king of magic eyes. it's because i fell on my head a lot as a child.

I am magic eye disabled

As I mentioned on the other thread, I cannot see these at all, and actually went through a period during the early 90's
(when they had a peak of popularity) of thinking that they were nothing but a hoax and that everyone who said they could see them was just messing with me.

It would have been better if this poll could have been done in magic eye form

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgzakke96w1qza49co1_500.png

I can see them, though it usually takes me a little while.

yeah, I said similar in the other thread: i fail at colorblindness dot tests and magic eye pictures alike. colored dots and I just don't get along

I have to say, I love that this was an actual fad in the '90s.

I can see them but it takes some doing.

Of all the early 90's fads that are still around, it has to be the one that I can't enjoy. I mean, I'd buy the fuck out of a Global Hypercolor t-shirt, but no...

i remember being so happy the day i finally figured these out after trying for months and months

I refuse to believe these things work at all.

I'll take a bargain bin of hypercolor tshirts, snap bands, mood rings, and singing flowerpots over those stupid pictures

An interesting business opportunity might be selling glasses that have tiltable lenses so the wearer can see these images without having to cross their eyes.

or owning an incinerator :D

The shit people used to be into before widespread use of the internet...

I wonder if Z_S can make an animated magic eye GIF that just says 'FUCK YOU!', just to get at the people who can see these things easily.

PAGING Z S TO THREAD, PAGING Z S TO THREAD

And it seems that someone's already made a goatse stereogram...
(NSFW) http://slackdaddy.org/node/619 (NSFW)
...or possibly just taken a picture of a slice of corned beef, I can't tell.

so not clicking on that

I like Magic Eyes. I would sit around in church and try the same eye trick on the floral patterns of the dresses of women in the pew in front of me. It doesn't lead to 3D dolphins or anything, but sometimes it would result in this otherworldly diorama-type flatness, like their back was a flat void cavity covered in floral print. It was an effect that made three hour church more tolerable.

xp But neither of us can see it!

xp I imagine that a three hour church service would become a flat void floral print cavity without any need for magic eye tricks.

no reliably, no

I have to say, I love that this was an actual fad in the '90s.

― Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:48 PM (12 minutes ago)

OTM, makes this possibly the most '90s album cover:

http://991.com/newgallery/Dave-Matthews-Band-Remember-Two-Thin-370724.jpg

PEACE Y'ALL

fwiw, one of the things i loved best when i was a kid was staring distractedly (they thought i was autistic for a while, gave me special activities - i dunno, maybe i am). anyway, i loved starting at fire, clouds, spinning records & fans, tv static, trees in wind, etc.

one of my very favorite things to stare, though, at was perforated grating. like, any kind of regular patter of holes: chain link fence, radiator screen, whatever. i noticed very young that if you stared "just right" you could separate the perception of each eye and sort of control the overlay. if you synched them up properly, it gave a weird illusion of depth, made it look like the grating was floating out of spacial synch with whatever lay beyond it. entrancing.

decades later, magic eyes came along, and i am SO ready for that shit.

^ could use some editorial help here

lol, had forgotten abt that DMB album cover. so dorky. but cool!

goatse-gram is incredibly weak and doesn't really look anything like the goat man

i love magic eyes, i can see them, i am ready for them to make a comeback right now, tyvm

In addition to the Magic Eye, the DMB has the '90s mark in the form of a hideous gradient.

Remember two things: bad, hated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArWY-Ck-CPc

magic eye movie about a snoman and his hat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNm2vlw74iY

one about a blobby lil guy trying to negotiate a side-scrolling video game labyrinth

someone must have made a stereogram movie that doesn't suck

one of my very favorite things to stare, though, at was perforated grating. like, any kind of regular patter of holes: chain link fence, radiator screen, whatever. i noticed very young that if you stared "just right" you could separate the perception of each eye and sort of control the overlay. if you synched them up properly, it gave a weird illusion of depth, made it look like the grating was floating out of spacial synch with whatever lay beyond it. entrancing.

Yeah! The pattern of black dots on white fabric on the headliner of my parent's hold VW Squareback was perfect for this. My mom said she used to do that with the ceiling tiles in church when she was a kid. (And I used to stare in a certain way until I could see bright auras around people in church. Nothing like boring ass church for encouraging kids to perform ocular neurobiology experiments.)

snoball you realize this thread is going to be my worst nightmare

Those stereogram movies are a fun novelty!

It's like watching a TV where you can hear the sound but the picture is just static.

http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/diet/breadstuffs/images/152369_crispbread.jpg

OTM, makes this possibly the most '90s album cover:

Man, I was really hoping that there would be two secret objects hidden in the image, but no, it's just a hand with two raised fingers.

one of my very favorite things to stare, though, at was perforated grating. like, any kind of regular patter of holes:

hi buffandmaxsmom

I can do them sometimes, others I can't. I had problems as a child focusing my eyes, and was given these focusing exercises to do, so it's hard sometimes to unlearn what I learned. /Yoda

First time I remember seeing one was on the insert for the cassette of Poster Children's "Tool of the Man," which came out in 1993.

talking dog in the ry-krisp is cool, but i don't get how they make it tell me to kill that lady

but no, it's just a hand with two raised fingers.

Hoping that the hand is oriented English 'V' insult style...

mr. pitt's insight is right: the trick is DEEEEP focus

i have this stereogram book that claims that picasso was really into these and that's what drove him mad during his twilight years.

I could never explain how, must be muscle memory, but I basically adjust my eyes to instantly see them in as quick as a blink. I have a few useless talents like this...

one of my very favorite things to stare, though, at was perforated grating. like, any kind of regular patter of holes: chain link fence, radiator screen, whatever. i noticed very young that if you stared "just right" you could separate the perception of each eye and sort of control the overlay. if you synched them up properly, it gave a weird illusion of depth, made it look like the grating was floating out of spacial synch with whatever lay beyond it. entrancing.

Yeah! The pattern of black dots on white fabric on the headliner of my parent's hold VW Squareback was perfect for this. My mom said she used to do that with the ceiling tiles in church when she was a kid. (And I used to stare in a certain way until I could see bright auras around people in church. Nothing like boring ass church for encouraging kids to perform ocular neurobiology experiments.)

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:21 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow OK so I'm not the only one who does this.

in thee 90s I spent ages being unable to see these, thinking it was a hoax etc, and finally (after a lot of pressing my nose right into them and moving backwards very slowly - repeat until something happens) managed to start seeing them, though it was quite hard work and some of them just wouldn't work for me

now it is not the 90s I am out of practice, or maybe it's that I've since developed a weird eyesight prescription; just looked at a couple and could see one (eventually) but the other would start to pop out into weird unconnected fragments and then collapse again

Top tip: try the same eye crossing or deep focus or whatever technique with spot the difference pictures.

Ha I have actually done that, briefly, before I felt like I was in a special migraine built from children's puzzle books

PS as a kid I had a lot of eye focusing issues, so yes, I have spent hours progressively defocusing my eyes to observe the weird 3Dish effects, but it was more of a "what is this thing I do involuntarily that gets me in trouble if I let on to my parents?" rather than "whoa, psychedelic"

(for my psychedelic optical thrills I just poked my fingers into my closed eyes until my mother caught me and told me I'd ruin my eyes foreverrrr. either this trick no longer produces the effects which so entranced me as a kid, or I no longer dare press hard enough)

^ still works for me. push hard enough to cause slowly building flashing and eventual pain, let off when it starts to get intense. best visuals are obtained not while pressing, but afterwards, when the effects fade away.

i'm opposed to the eye crossing technique the same way mel gibson hates vatican II

In case anyone thinks it was harsh of my parents to get cross with me for involuntarily crossing/defocusing my eyes, I remember being in a shop as a v small child loudly asking why most people had 2 eyes but some had 4:
"nobody has 4 eyes"
"but look at that person over there, THEY have 4 eyes"
"..."
"no mummy, look, look at that strange person with 4 eyes"

(while getting ever louder and pointing at a perfectly 2-eyed person, all because I was looking at them cross-eyed myself)

strangely it was not until my mid-20s that I started having to give opticians large sums of money

Weirdly It took me a while to figure out that the eye crossing/separation thing I'd always been able to do was how to see magic eye pictures. And now, thanks to the magic of iPad (ok I could have just used any old camera), I can see what I look like when doing it - an idiot. My left eye crosses all the way to the middle and my right stays put.

>_<

I'll be able to see the aliens among us, and their hidden messages of OBEY and CONSUME, before I ever manage to see one of those Magic Eye pictures.

You just have to cross your eyes!

poll needs a cross-reference with people who give a shit about Britpop

I was also the type to stare at things and overlap them, but quickly with a bit of eye crossing. I wear glasses now :O

Alright NV, two votes yes then. 0_o

don't cross your eyes! relax and stare at an imaginary point somewhere beyond the picture plane.

I can't break my eyes out of the habit!

yeah, crossing your eyes gives you an inverse of the magic eye image (talked about this on the other thread). like in the image below, if you cross your eyes, focusing on the space between yourself and the picture plane, you'll only see a shark-shaped cavity in the surface of the image. but if stare off at a point beyond the picture plane, you'll see a a three-dimensional shark hovering above the picture plane. cheggiddoot:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Stereogram_Tut_Random_Dot_Shark.png

animated version, très chouette:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Stereogram_Tut_Animated_Shark_Small.gif

Omg I feel you have changed my life in some small and no longer very significant fashion! Still having trouble doing it the right way though, I can snap into the eyes crossed view in a moment but after ten minutes trying the other way I'm only just starting to see it.

GAH I HATE THAT GIF SO MUCH

http://www.wingnuttoons.com/jabbranim.gif

better?

DON'T YOU PATRONIZE ME

:)

are magic eyes triangle wave? lamp, gr80, whiney, help me out here

fuck no, never worked for me and it drives me nutz

i too like staring at things

are magic eyes triangle wave? lamp, gr80, whiney, help me out here

(i am none of those but) shit yeah. speaking of, when does altered zones nostalgia kick in? i've got a few weeks free in september.

can't do these

I can never see them. In HS I worked a summer at a shop that had one of those books and I spent three months staring at it and still couldn't see it while other people would pick it up and see them all straight away. I was like Ethan Suplee with the sailboat magic eye in Mallrats.

<3

Well if any of you need a magic eye cracked let me know I offer faster service than any competitor or your money back.

That moving gif was the easiest one to see, for me.

I could never ever get these to work and then one day, I got so *tired* staring at one that my eyes all unfocussed and relaxed... and BAM, it swam into view suddenly.

Its impossible to explain how to see it but eventually you kinda work out how, you have to really learn to fight the urge to focus on the dots.

What I find trippy is once it goes all completel 3-d, you dont have to concentrate to make it stay that way - it just does, and if you move yr head around, the 3d image moves too!

Like even blinking doesnt "undo" it, but if you look away and back, that does.

Cant for the life of me make the animated one work, that said, the moving dots are way too distracting

these have never ever worked for me, i suspect because my left eye is so much weaker than the right

Never seen any of them, but I'm short-sighted in one eye and long-sighted in the other

One time I stared at a Magic Eye book for over an hour until I finally saw it... I had an awful headache for the rest of the day.

Soooo I'm not sure how to answer the question.

Oh wait.. I just saw the shark. Maybe I forgot that I knew how to see it. lol

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61cG6ONsBlL.jpg

sponge wax belly

in thee 90s I spent ages being unable to see these, thinking it was a hoax etc, and finally (after a lot of pressing my nose right into them and moving backwards very slowly - repeat until something happens) managed to start seeing them, though it was quite hard work and some of them just wouldn't work for me

now it is not the 90s I am out of practice, or maybe it's that I've since developed a weird eyesight prescription; just looked at a couple and could see one (eventually) but the other would start to pop out into weird unconnected fragments and then collapse again

― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:53 PM

Christ, I tried to keep myself from crossing my eyes and just let myself relaxing into seeing the topthread link, and it went all acid flashback on me and started grooving. Watery eyes.

There, I got it. But I just crossed my eyes the other way to make it pop out rather than in. I am a failure ;_;

Well I don't even know if you can cross your eyes two different ways? But usally my right eye dominantly crosses, so I let my left one 'lead.' Naturally I tried to look in a mirror to see if it actually looks different, but um, I was cross-eyed..

i saw one of these in 2007 and was really disappointed

The first few are entertaining if it's easy, but I can't imagine going through collective hours of struggle and headaches, and then, years later, THE BIG REVEAL:

http://joyerickson.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/magic-eye-key-0014.jpg

yeah, crossing your eyes gives you an inverse of the magic eye image (talked about this on the other thread). like in the image below, if you cross your eyes, focusing on the space between yourself and the picture plane, you'll only see a shark-shaped cavity in the surface of the image. but if stare off at a point beyond the picture plane, you'll see a a three-dimensional shark hovering above the picture plane. cheggiddoot:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Stereogram_Tut_Random_Dot_Shark.png

If I cross them, and then do it "again" my eyes separate the image into the separate planes of distance on which they are constructed. During my psychadelic college years, I called this 'going deeper' and tried to do it w/ non-magic eye stuff

yeah, you can generate weird effects by controlling the amount of overlap between the images seen by each eye. much easier to do when crossing your eyes and inverting the stereogram than when looking into the depths beyond it and seeing it "properly".

Don Lawrence's 'Storm' has an entire book with Magic Eye backgrounds. Hmm.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Holy shit, I just made the shark work.

It's like a colored sponge that's been dug out, a hole. No contour lines or anything.

It only took me 20 years, but I finally got one to work. I was even able to "hold" on to it too, unlike those zig-zag trippy LSD things that make everything wavy for 10 seconds.

First time I remember seeing one was on the insert for the cassette of Poster Children's "Tool of the Man," which came out in 1993.

Had the inverted flag cover on our living room wall for awhile </so_90s>

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Almost 50/50, interestng!

I voted no... and then shortly afterwards finally managed to make it work after 20 years of trying

Can't see anything but a bunch of dots, despite trying the various suggestions upthread

Holy shit, I just made the shark work.

It's like a colored sponge that's been dug out, a hole. No contour lines or anything.

― pplains, Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:36 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was me for the next two hours after I made that post.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s_30zQFJp4g/SAJmwFnvqUI/AAAAAAAADs4/H-9xUDsztpU/s320/2001Keir%2B01.jpg

sissymanwhore has posted some really difficult magic eye pics (the trickiest one is the baby)

it's always the baby

http://maxgif.com/hz

is this really a magic eye or am I just going to die

die magically

while focusing on the middle distance

seize today

That can't be a proper magic eye because I could read it.

^^^

Seize(ure) Today

Oh and I just remembered a funny magic eye story. Early 90's, one of those 'we're selling posters and stuff in this temporarily empty retail unit for a couple of weeks' places. They had a magic eye poster on the inside of the window, stuck so that it was facing outside. There was a dude standing in front of it, lecturing a gathering crowd about how to see these kind of pictures. "It's easy..." he said, "All you do is focus on the window, and then take a few steps backwards." He did so, tripping over the kerb and falling into the street.
To me it was as funny as 'Del Boy falling through the bar' is to others.

Did everybody else take a few steps backward and trip over the curb too?

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_5XvBYfxU_dM/StFoUWukP2I/AAAAAAAADdA/XPizinifsbY/The%20SNL%20Wolverine%20skit-8x6%5B1%5D.jpg

No, this was in England. So everyone stood around chortling and saying things like "oh you silly arse", etc.. Then a small boy ran down the street with a hoop and stick, and a gentleman rode past on a penny farthing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26035877

How long until someone releases an album with one of these as cover art?

Post-Mallrats OST, i mean

thanks guys, now i'm gonna spend the evening looking at these things

How long until someone releases an album with one of these as cover art?

very surprised it hasn't happened already.

This is neat, but you definitely have to watch it in HD for it to work best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKtp3XHn38