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As a not quite middle aged dude, I only just now figured out how to see magic eye stuff. I tried a couple times in elementary school but didn't get it so I stopped. Had a few drinks earlier, stumbled on some magic eye pic that I could see clear as day and it blew my mind a little

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[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Yes. They require stereoscopic vision. When I was doing research on 3D displays about 10% of subjects had to be rejected because they were stereo blind. They had no idea they were that way.

One woman said that explains why she had the nickname clunk in high school. She had a habit of rearending cars.

[-] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Lmao clunk is brutal

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[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Someone made a modified version of Quake back in the day, that rendered to stereoscopic 3D in a white noise pattern.

It was such a mindfuck to play!

You get 3D depth but no colors or shades or contrast. It's just shapes moving. So doors that were flush with the wall were impossible to see, but enemies in dark rooms were fully visible because there is no light or dark.

I like to imagine I got to experience what a bat sees with echolocation.

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[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Now that you've figured it out, behold: Stereograms!

The above satellite images from NASA allow you to SEE the topography in 3D.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

These are awesome thanks for sharing. Also, if you can do magic eye and stereograms, try crossing your eyes when playing those "find the differences between these two pictures" games. They are incredibly easy if you cross your eyes.

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[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

I can view the convergent (cross-eyed) ones no problem. I managed once to focus on the divergent ones with like 30 minutes of practice, but I had trouble focusing normally afterwards for like an hour so I haven't tried since.

[-] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

It's a skill. You get better with practice.

[-] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ya I was wondering the whole time if this was going to cause some long term damage

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

My parents were of the opinion they were an elaborate hoax until they had me draw what I saw in one of them.

This was in a newspaper 30 or so years ago maybe. The image was accompanied by a depth-map image of what should be visible, but they covered that up. Then they asked if I'd looked at the newspaper before them because, even with my terrible art skills, it was clearly what was in the depth-map version.

I think they believed me in the end though.

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[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep.

If you can do it, you can sometimes use that skill to quickly compare whether two adjacent vertical images are identical. If they are, you will just see a single version of the image as normal. If they are different, you will easily see a ‘fuzzy’ part of the image that won’t resolve and stay still (hard to describe, it’s like when I try to read text in a dream).

A practical application I use now and then is when I want to compare two columns of data on a screen. Use the magic eye technique to overlap the columns and any differences will be immediately obvious, even with a lot of data.

[-] Acamon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love them! Generally find that once you get one it's a lot easier. I find that if I've not looked at one for a while, and 8k kit getting it, and I go back to the first one I got (some boxing kangaroos) and normally it just clicks again.

My partner can't see them, and is convinced it's just a dumb hoax that people on the Internet play pretending they can see them.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Nope! But I've made them. I needed to go find someone with more normal eyes to test my creations for me, though.

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[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

I can see them.

Or at least I could. When LGR recently made a video about them, I was having a very bad time viewing them. I was either too drunk or not used to seeing them with this TV setup or I just need new glasses. Probably the last one.

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[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

This is a great random question. Me likey

[-] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm full of random questions

If you could only eat 1 dish forever without worrying about vitamin intake or macros, what would it be?

What would your plan be if you woke up tomorrow and everyone else on earth disappeared without a trace?

What's a skill you want to learn and what's stopping you from learning it?

What's the largest animal you think you could beat in a fight with just your hands?

You stumble upon all the dragonballs, what is your wish?

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Oh this is easy!

Lasagne - its so versatile. I'd usually keep it realy light on mince and boost the vegetables, though. So many textures and ways to play with flavours, it'd be ages before it got old.

Alone? I dunno. Sleep or gooning, probably

Largest animal: a med-small dog? Like a whippet or something.

I don't understand the dragonballs stuff. Probably just too them down a hill (we've got some really steep streets for this in NZ)

[-] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Good choice garfield

No survival plans?

Reasonable choice

The dragonballs from the manga/anime dragonball summon shenron the dragon when you collect them all and you're allowed to make 1 wish, even including bringing people back from the dead

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[-] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Wow, I must be the only person on Lemmy that cannot

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[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I finally realized how to reliably do it in my early 20s (a while ago now) but still can to this day. Just have to start with it at my face haha.

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yes. I can change my vision's focal point and focus distance at will, so it's usually easy even though my eyesight is getting fucky with age.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I see them inverted. I'm left handed, I figure that has something to do with it

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

It sounds like you might be looking at the left image with your right eye and the right image with your left eye. That's what happens when you cross your eyes instead of looking past the image.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but I have to stick my face right up close and slowly move it away to do so.

Phone/tablet screens work best for it.

[-] kaotic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I can see the 3D, but struggle to put together what they are sometimes because I don't have colors to put the image together.

[-] eronth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Nope. Never figured it out

[-] Lionheadbud@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I didn't think I could but interestingly enough discovered a technique that works earlier today. Basically get really close whilst staring at a point then gradually move away. It actually is an amazing effect

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[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah I just relax my eyes and then focus the book without moving my line of sight

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

Never, ever been able to see them but then I'm neurodiverse

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[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

I couldn't because really bad astigmatism, but after ICL surgery I could. Magic Eye is really cool, binged the greatest hits after I found out I could see them.

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Being legally blind in one eye precludes me from using those

[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I used to, but its been years since I've tried, and I've had to get stronger glasses a couple of time since then.

[-] faltryka@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I have tried to see them so many times but have never even gotten an inkling.

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[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Are those still being made? I haven't seen one in ages. But yeah I could see em.

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[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Holy shit! I don't recall them being this impressive! This thing's got over ~~half~~ a dozen levels of depth to it!

The more I look at it and my eyes adjust, the more I realize now complex it is. The freakin trees have multiple layers of leaves! This is insane!

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

It's harder than it was before I needed bifocals, but yeah.

Once you learn the trick of it, it gets easier to do.

I wanna say I was late teens/early twenties when they first started showing up in my area, and I stood in the store I first saw one for like a half hour trying to see the image. My vision was kinda bad across the board, even then. But I got the first one, which was a boat, and then flipped through the rest of the selection they had, maybe five or six different ones?

But any time I got new glasses, it would take a few minutes to adjust when I'd run across one again. Same if I needed new ones.

They really are fun

[-] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Im in my 30s and learned a few years ago, my brother in law showed me how. Was super cool, I had always thought it was people trolling

[-] Oyml77@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

I can, but it is sometimes tricky. Usually I can make the image go into 3D mode without too much trouble, but I sometimes can't figure out what I'm supposed to be seeing. Like, I can tell that things are at different depths but I have a hard time resolving it into a complete cohesive image. I think it is mostly due to the weird random pattern that makes up the image and the difficulty in finding how the edges work together. It could just be shitty stereograms, though, since most of them work fine.

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, you have to imagine you are looking into a mirror at yourself and focus your eyes on that place; look past the image.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yep. There was one on the Sunday comics page every week when I was a kid, and I learned how to do it then. I never understood the people who can't do it, or thought it was fake.

[-] escapedgoat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure the scene from Mallrats was based on me. I stood and stared at those at the mall for days and could never see them. Finally one day - 20ish years later it finally clicked and now I can see them.

[-] Waldelfe@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, but only if I take off my glasses.

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[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I couldn’t for most of my life, but then I just tried about two years ago and it clicked. I’ve been able to ever since. It’s a cognitive skill. Once you learn it, it’s like riding a bike. I hate to make it sound as exclusive as it is, because that’s what turned me off of it to begin with, but it really is true. Just figure it out and it’s like a code that you can decode at will.

[-] Catfish@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Inconsistently. Haven't tried for yonks. Back when they were brand new I got maybe 50%.

[-] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

How many yonks has in been?

[-] Catfish@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Late 80s early 90s?? Whenever Good Weekend did a weekly.

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