Magic Eye 3D Stereograms, surely a new way of looking at the world. What are them? Well, they are visual illusions, secret images inside an additional one image.
If you can't see them, its difficult to understand how can be this possible, but its not that difficult. There are other images that when you look at them from close distance they show something and when looked from far away they appear to be something different. Basically a stereogram is a 3D image secret in a 2D image. Regularly the 2D image is nothing more than random dots or some sort of pattern, but when looked in a extra way, you will see a 3D shape.
How to make a stereogram of your own? Well, you will need a computer program to help you in this task. What you need is a pattern and a mask. The mask is the most difficult to make for your own. This is surely a depth mask, and is in black and white, where the whiter a point is the closest it is to you. You can try with the paint program, but its difficult to have good results. Regularly a mask is made with a 3D rendering program (like 3D Studio), that can originate depth masks agreeing to the way you view the 3D object (you can rotate it, move it closer or further away, etc).
Another kind of stereogram is made by simply taking 2 photos of the same object from 2 slightly distinct positions. You can think of the human eyes like 2 photo cameras, the eyes are slightly apart, this gives us the depth feeling. And this depth feeling is what we are trying to achieve.
How to view a magic eye 3d stereogram:
Bring the stereogram image surely close to your eyes (until you touch it with your nose). At this distance your eyes cannot focus on the image and they look somewhere behind the image. Now, gently push the image away from you, while trying to keep the eyes off focus. At some point you will see the secret image.
Another formula is to take an object and put it behind the image (about half of meter behind it). Now, focus on the object behind the image while keeping the eyes looking at the image.
Do you remember how is the feeling when you are drunk? Your eyes don't look at the object colse to you, but rather straight through them. Well, this is surely what we are trying to achieve (look straight through the object, not get drunk, loll). If you can conduct to get your eyes off focus, at some point you will be able to see the secret image.
If you're not train to look at stereograms, this might take you some time. First time I've looked at a stereogram it took me like an hour to finally be able to focus the eyes correctly to see the 3D image.
Catalin Catana
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