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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.
Lmao clunk is brutal
I'm one of the stereo blind. I was kind of glad when I found out from the eye doctor. It explained why I could rarely catch a baseball without getting hit.
Now that you've figured it out, behold: Stereograms!
The above satellite images from NASA allow you to SEE the topography in 3D.
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.
Omg I've never been able to do a magic eye before, but I think there stereograms just unlocked it for me! I Feel like I get it now, thanks!
Off to find my house!
Yes.
The instructions say don't cross your eyes but that's horseshit and probably why so many people fail to see them.
My method is to cross my eyes, then uncross them slowly until the 3d effect appears, then hold on that position.
But then you see them inverted.
3d cross eyed pictures and magic eye work in similar but different ways
Yup you want to focus farther than the picture. Crossing your eyes makes you focus closer.
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.
Being legally blind in one eye precludes me from using those
Same here, before I found out it is literally impossible for me to see them I had one of the books and I would stare at it for hours trying to make it work. Of all the annoyances of being half blind, not being able to see magic eyes is the one that bothers me most.
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.
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
Off to r/MagicEye now
Nope. Never figured it out
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.
This is a great random question. Me likey
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?
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)
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
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.
I can somewhat move my eyes independently. I credit this skill to us having had magic eyes books as a kid and I just learned to control eye muscles willingly.
As someone with a lazy eye I can control, stereograms are ludicrously easy for me to see.
I see them inverted. I'm left handed, I figure that has something to do with it
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.
Yes, but only if I take off my glasses.
Thought this might do it for me, but still no.
Inconsistently. Haven't tried for yonks. Back when they were brand new I got maybe 50%.
How many yonks has in been?
Late 80s early 90s?? Whenever Good Weekend did a weekly.
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.
one of us
Took a few minutes when it was introduced to me, but I can see them
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.
Yes, you have to imagine you are looking into a mirror at yourself and focus your eyes on that place; look past the image.