Proteus Jones posted:

I only *just* got them to work for me in the last couple of years. I'm over 50.

The trick that ended up working for me, is to pretend to focus on a point 20 feet or so behind the image. My monitor is set up so I'm facing a window, I started to look at the image but focused my eyes as if I was looking at the fence post out the window. It's weird, it's like it slowly slid into place and then just snapped into sharpness. At that point it was no longer an effort like my brain was going "Oh, that's what you were wanting to see? OK". However, if I stopped looking at the image I had to start all over again.

I'm not saying 100% of the time it works, but a good 9 out 10 for sure.

Desert Bus posted:

The last time I explained on here that Magic Eye pics are bullshit and that everyone claiming to be able to see anything in them was just cargo culting on what others claimed they could see in them, because they didn't want to feel left out? It caused a page long derail of people claiming they could see them so they'd not look dumb in front of others who also did the same thing.

It's just random dots, there ain't poo poo there, anyone claiming there is? They're just trying to look good for other suckers who also claim there is something there.

Martman posted:

Magic eyes work, but your eyes have to actually be magic like mine.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I imagine constellations were much more compelling when you could see all the stars in the sky. I once found myself driving through the middle of nowhere in Montana and South Dakota overnight and I was gobsmacked at all the stars I could see. Light pollution is a motherfucker.

OwlFancier posted:

Do not look at stars or you WILL die.

Deptfordx posted:

So. Big magic eye got to you too.

Martman posted:

Magic eyes work, but your eyes have to actually be magic like mine.

Platystemon posted:

Sculptor is the most bullshit constellation of them all.



There’s nothing there.

Like, it’s not a void, there are stars, but no particularly brights ones that form any sort of a shape that suggests anything, certainly not a sculptor’s studio.

BigHead posted:

Just the other night I spent an hour showing constellations to my eighty year old father in law, who spent his entire life in dense cities and just never saw stars.

Orion is the best, but the two dippers are also the best. The rest are kinda bullshit.

freeedr posted:

If you Google up cross view stereograms there are a poo poo ton of the easier cross-eyes versions of both magic eyes and photographic stereograms

Wasabi the J posted:

The joke is that they are unfinished constellations my dude.

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L'attelier du Sculpteur : il est composé d'un scabellon qui porte un modèle, & d'un bloc de marbre sur lequel on a posé un maillet & un ciseau.

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The Sculptor's workshop: it is composed of a stool that supports a model, and a block of marble on which a mallet and a chisel have been set.

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The Microscope: according to its usual representation, it is a tube placed on top of a square box.

verbal enema posted:

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I still quote that commercial to this day.

A rare instance of a really good ad

Milo and POTUS posted:

Which way did the sun set? Ok, to the right of that

GWBBQ posted:

In the northern hemisphere, you can sight along the two stars of the big dipper opposite the handle and find Polaris, so you can figure out which way is north if you're lost in the wilderness or at sea.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Truly all those people over the centuries who used stars to navigate were just morons.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

3D images actually have a dedicated left and right side. So if you can "get it in an instant" with a crosseye trick, but the image goes inward, you can take the image into an image editor, swap the pics from left to right and vice versa, and then they'll appear with the proper depth.

It's all down to how the images were captured. Some are designed so the left image is seen by the left eye, the right by the right eye, and you bring them together to combine them and show depth. Other are designed for the left eye to see the right image, and the right eye to see the left image, and then combining them produces depth. But the view methods are not interchangeable between both styles. The former style are generally easy to do without any "tricks", the latter you usually have to use a dedicated viewing apparatus, or use the hand covering trick I mentioned earlier in the thread.

AzureSkys posted:

That's interesting. I never could see them when on posters at the mall but once they started showing up in the Sunday newspaper comics section I finally figured it out. I still have a collection of them that I cut out and saved as well as a book.

But, if it was compared to making a mold of something, I usually see the mold or negative instead of the object it formed where it's coming out of the page rather than looking into it with depth as you mention. Sometimes certain webpages will have that effect on me, too, where the background is a certain color and the font another. The letters then stick out a bit from the screen. So, I have no idea why that happens other than something similar where each eye or brain half focuses on separate things?

I've tried a few on their webpage and still have the negative/mold effect rather than seeing into the image for the 3d shape using the cross eye or close up methods.
https://www.magiceye.com/

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I can see this with depth:
https://i.imgur.com/W9jkGoq.mp4

but this is reverse:
https://i.imgur.com/ghPk6n1.mp4

verbal enema posted:

never seen the first full version

its not as good as the short 12 second one imo

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

Chard posted:

anyone know what the whistle song in the last ~five seconds of this ad is? i cant quite place it and its like an itch i cant scratch

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOmTLgr4hnw

Recently featured in Kill Bill but it's popped up in lots of places

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