Magic Eye and other optical illusions

[Awaken]

Here is one of my favorite.



I wonder why some can see them and some cannot? Can you all see the image? Post your favorite magic eye picture and/or optic illusion.

Edit: Please spoiler your answers if you get it as it may take away the fun from other people.

 

[Solitaire U.]

It's a kinda small image. Looking at it through eyes that have been awake more than 48 hours isn't helping much. I seem to recall these images were much larger in the books though...

*Edit* Is it genital-related?

An old favorite...

 

[Awaken]

Save image to desktop, then use your comps software to zoom in.

No, it is Watson related.

edit: I dont get the whole camel thing.

 

[Solitaire U.]

I also recall being able to tilt the book and look at it from a sideways angle, which made for a much more fulfilling experience...

Damn, I don't see it.

 

[Awaken]

Lol. It is so clear that I feel like I can touch it. I have no idea how to coach people into seeing them. I tried with my girlfriend and it only left me frustrated......so, you are on your own buddy. The image is actually "sideways" compared to how you are used to seeing it , and I dont know why they chose to use "beads" for the backbone....but whatever. That is the last hint I will give.

 

[Abraxas]

I think you're supposed to be so close that your nose actually touches the screen and slowly move away from the picture, without focusing your eyes in the process. Or you can just slightly cross your eyes to get the inverted picture appear.

I never knew the picture of the Camel behaved this way too. I've only found smaller pictures inside the camel, i.e. a woman starting from it's left foreleg.

 

[Jah]

Fecken hate these things...

I always end up trying to decipher them by looking for the glitches and the overlaps in the recurring pattern, and never seeing the "hidden image"

 

[Jah]

Managed to see this one after a few minutes of reading up on wiki:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Stereogram_Tut_Animated_Shark.gif

 

[Awaken]

Those moving ones are always harder. Im surprised you could see that one first.

173 views and nobody has come up with an answer? The image is not on the surface of the color, it is behind it. Simply staring at the color pattern will not yield results.

 

[Abraxas]

Spoiler

Looks like DNA.

 

[Awaken]

Correct. You get a cookie from your local grocery store. I will try to find another good one in the meantime.

 

[Awaken]

This one is pretty funny. I have no idea how they did it:


Hint: it is only 7 words

 

[Abraxas]

Thanks for the cookie! It was well worth the nightstick treatment they gave me at the mall.

The one with the words was actually harder. I read the words on the right and tried to move to the ones on the left, but kept loosing focus...

I think I've heard those words before...alot!

 

[Awaken]

Okay, so I guess the majority of people cant see them. As to not exclude people, I will include an illusion that everyone can see. This one is pretty cool. Rewind the video if you dont believe them.........yes, your brain can/will lie to you...deal with it.

YouTube - Rainbow w/ Waterfall - Optical Illusion from StareClips.com

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Damn it... I can't see the 'DNA' thing, I'm too lazy to read the word-illusion, and I already knew the last one ):

 

[Awaken]

Damn it... I can't see the 'DNA' thing, I'm too lazy to read the word-illusion, and I already knew the last one ):

There is little to read. Oddly enough, it is actually a magic eye 3d image of only 7 words. I posted this in another thread, but I think this image is interesting as well. I can follow most of the rotations as a single object that is not "morphing" from 3:00-4:00, 4:32-4:56 but I cant tell what happens during the other times. Is it still just rotating or does my perspective just get confused? I wonder at what times do others see it as a cube inside of a cube that is simply rotating. If they are at the same time as me, I imagine it is just warping/folding on itself during the other times.

YouTube - Tesseract - 6 Rotations

Somebody has to have some of their own. My brain is bored.

 

[boondockbabe]

I can't ever see these things. But I have a lazy eye. I don't even see things in 3-D. I only can see 2 dimensionally most of the time. My depth perception is way off. If your eyes don't work together and/or your brain can't combine the images you probably wont see it. I have special contacts I wear and while I can see 3-D somewhat it's never to the dergree the rest of you get to see. Sometimes if I really concentrate I can almost see it. But mostly it just gives me a headache.

 

[boondockbabe]

Okay, so I guess the majority of people cant see them. As to not exclude people, I will include an illusion that everyone can see. This one is pretty cool. Rewind the video if you dont believe them.........yes, your brain can/will lie to you...deal with it.

YouTube - Rainbow w/ Waterfall - Optical Illusion from StareClips.com

cool thks I got to see one

 

[Awaken]

This one is just odd:

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/sze_silhouette/index.html

Look at it the first time and note the direction she is spinning, then close your eyes and imagine her spinning the other direction, then look at the image again with your eyes open.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

There is little to read. Oddly enough, it is actually a magic eye 3d image of only 7 words.

Hmmm? I clearly read a lot of different words, how do you mean just 7 words?

 

[boondockbabe]

This one is just odd:

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/sze_silhouette/index.html

Look at it the first time and note the direction she is spinning, then close your eyes and imagine her spinning the other direction, then look at the image again with your eyes open.

Kinda trippy, I like that. If you blink really fast its easier to see.

 

[Awaken]

Hmmm? I clearly read a lot of different words, how do you mean just 7 words?

Using the same technique as you would for the image in the first post in the thread, you will see a 3-d image of a sentence(7 words long).

More complicated explanation: All of the jibberish words will be in a vertical plane farther away from you, while the relevant sentence will be in a closer vertical plane. However, it does not read like a normal left to right sentence. It reads like:

00000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000
0000XXXX000000000000000000 Word 1
000000XXXXXXX0000000000000 Word2
000000000XXXX0000000000000 Word3
00000000000XXXX00000000000 Word4
00000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000XXX00000 Word5
00000000000000000000X00000 Word6
00000000000000000000XXXX00 Word7
00000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000

0=far vertical plane/jibberish words
X=close vertical plane/relevant sentence.

Word1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = a 3d sentence

 

[Dimensional Transition]

'Stop wasting your time and get a life?'

It doesn't read 3D at all...
Maybe I don't see depth like boondockbabe but I never knew it?

 

[Awaken]

Perhaps, but how can you read it if it is not the same 3D image that I see? ^^^^spoiler that^^^

 

[Solitaire U.]

It's showing up as fixed-width plain text on my end. Still seems to work though...looking at it cross-eyed helps.

 

[boondockbabe]

'Stop wasting your time and get a life?'

It doesn't read 3D at all...
Maybe I don't see depth like boondockbabe but I never knew it?

you must be like me because I found the
"stop wasting your time and get a life"

I found it by the pattern in the spaces between the letters. thats slick.

 

[Hadoblado]

My sister (who has some form of dyslexia) cannot not see these. I was always jealous because I only learned to see them relatively recently.

The trick that I learned to become a magic eye seer is to find two matching points on the picture which are on a horizontal plane to one another and then cross your eyes so that these two points overlap exactly. It doesn't work straight away, but if you keep slowly looking around the picture in this state it will pop out after a minute or two.

 

[A22]

I think I'm being trolled

 

[Awaken]

I think I'm being trolled

Huh?

 

[A22]

I can't see a thing in any of those images. I've tried all methods.

 

[Jah]

Find the elements that are supposed to overlap and try to alter your focus point until they do. (And then try to refocus your eyes which is a little more challenging at first.)

Fecking bleary eyed and all bloodshot from this stuff.

 

[Awaken]

If you are staring at the surface pattern of the image, you will never see it. Your eyes need to be focusing on an image that is "through" the page/screen. I just look at the picture and do a sort of meditation where I am not focusing on the surface, but through it. The image then turns blurry and my brain automatically reconstructs the blurryness into a 3d image. I think that if you try too hard, your brain does not do the auto reconstruction needed. If you try to force yourself to see it by concentrating I doubt you will ever see it.

 

[A22]

I've saved the image and used full screen view. Turned all the lights off. Concentraded (but not at the pattern). I've stared at it changing the focus for about 5min. Not a thing. Got closer and away from the monitor. Nothing. I guess some people just cant see it.

 

[Awaken]

Try looking at the middle of the image, cross your eyes completely, then slowly allow them to come back to normal vision.

 

[Linsejko]

haha.

I can't see the text one, but I saw the first without much trouble. The last one was fairly easy for me too. I'm more interested to know how these images are generated... amazing. Would be super cool to be able to paint something like this.

Guide for doing it--get the image onto a laptop. Look away from the laptop into the distance, maybe about 7-12 feet away. While maintaining that focal point, move the laptop screen in front of your eyes WITHOUT REFOCUSING. Then play with the out-of-focus-ness.

I think the difficulty for most people is taking control of their eye muscles in charge of focus, which has always been involuntary for them.

What's great is that my eyes get educated quickly, so that I can after a few minutes call up the 3d image hidden, and then sub-focus and stare directly at the 3d object. Amazing. I have no idea how it works. The brain is so ridiculous...

 

[boondockbabe]

I had a party the other night. My husband's friends came over. Everybody spent hours on this thread. they loved it.

 

[ApostateAbe]

I saw these when I was a kid, and it took me hours before I finally got it.

I think anyone who has two eyes is capable of doing it, but it is just a matter of understanding and following the proper instruction. If you are having trouble, then follow my instruction. Don't follow anyone else's instruction. They will only confuse you. You need only to listen to me.

When you hold up your finger in front of your face and cross your eyes, then you can split the image of the one finger into two fingers. In the case of these stereograms, it is not a matter of splitting the images by crossing your eyes--it is a matter of merging the images by crossing your eyes.

Spoiler

This image is probably the easiest to start on. There are a series of dark vertical seams that you can easily see normally. Pick a vertical seam in the middle, and cross your eyes so that one vertical seam is merged into an adjacent vertical seam. Once you achieve that overlap, then the 3-dimensional image becomes visible.

 

[Linsejko]

I have actually never been able to cross my eyes, and trying hurts... I much prefer my method. Mine requires some intuition, however, so YMMV.

 

[ApostateAbe]

I have actually never been able to cross my eyes, and trying hurts... I much prefer my method. Mine requires some intuition, however, so YMMV.

If you can see two fingers in front of your face when you are holding up just one, then you are "crossing your eyes." Maybe it really is difficult for some people, but I thought of that as the easy part.

 

[The Gopher]

Well, I was wrong about the first one I "eventually" saw a dragon Then I find out it was something different.

 

[darude11]

How interesting... I really don't know how to cross eyes...
On the first one I have for a while saw a pigeon or some bird... well, it was cartoonish style more, so I could say by myself that it is not what I am supposed to see... how to cross eyes... I am able, to see top of my nose with both eyes at a time, is this eye crossing (english is my secondary language and in my primary language it means something like this one below, so I am not sure if I know what is this eye-crossing)

< O>/<O > (not sure if you will understand)

 

[darude11]

There is little to read. Oddly enough, it is actually a magic eye 3d image of only 7 words. I posted this in another thread, but I think this image is interesting as well. I can follow most of the rotations as a single object that is not "morphing" from 3:00-4:00, 4:32-4:56 but I cant tell what happens during the other times. Is it still just rotating or does my perspective just get confused? I wonder at what times do others see it as a cube inside of a cube that is simply rotating. If they are at the same time as me, I imagine it is just warping/folding on itself during the other times.

YouTube - Tesseract - 6 Rotations

Somebody has to have some of their own. My brain is bored.

And to this video: It seem to me like tube, that is rectangular and loops...

 

[Awaken]

Yes, that is how you cross your eyes. The images are very clear. If you can fully see the 3-D image, there is little you have to interpret about the picture.....meaning if you are on the fence about what it may be, you are probably not seeing it as clearly as you should be.

This is what the tesseract looks like:

During the times I listed, I see it as the above object, only it is rotating. All of the other times I see it as you described it....sort of like a cube-tube.


Dont get discouraged if you cant see them. I recall encountering them for the first time as a child. It took me days to finally see them. Now, it takes all of 2 seconds for me to see any of them. Once your eyes are used to the phenomenon, it will become easier and easier.

 

[warryer]

The second one is a cross legged guy probably the Buddah.

The trick is to split the image that your eyes automatically merge into one. To get an idea of what I mean- cover one eye with your hand and look at something. Then quickly switch your hand to the other eye while still looking at the same object. You will see that the object appears to shift. So now you get the idea of seeing double of the same object.

The trick to doing magic eyes is to split the image like this without covering one eye at a time.

 

[Jah]

I thought tesseracts were like 4D cubes. Hyper Cubes.

Bah; Go Carl Sagan:


YouTube - ‪Cosmos - Carl Sagan - 4th Dimension‬&rlm;

 

[Awaken]

They are. I just still dont really have a clue wtf they are supposed to represent.

 

[IzlaRoza]

well this 1 isnt exactly an optical illusion but there is something n this 1 and i find it kool.

 

[drsteevo]

I liked the 3D word image, I had never seen anything like that before.

 

[darude11]

well this 1 isnt exactly an optical illusion but there is something n this 1 and i find it kool.

You mean the subliminal word "SEX" made of leaves of these strange plants? Then you will find cool almost every movie of these times. Start with Walt Disney movies like Little Mermaid, Rapunzel. Or just watch movies like HP series, Dark Knight or Matrix (but Matrix has got only hidden HP logo, not word "SEX", so I wouldn't count this one). Yes, and watch the "Alejandro" videoclip from Lady Gaga.

If you will do everything from above mentioned, you will have the most spoiled life, which you could possibly have. Just like other half of planet.

 

[Cerul]

I've never been able to do magic eye =/