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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago
[–] daannii@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

These are called magic eye by many but are technically stereograms.

Firstly it requires two working eyes. That can align together.

So people with cross eye or a lazy eye can't do these. Though these can be used to help such people train their eyes to work together better.

They are easier to learn to do as a kid. Adults who never have successfully done the trick really struggle with it. But it's not impossible to learn.

Also. For some people they make people feel nauseous.

Also. The more you practice the easier it gets.

You build up an ability rather quickly because it's muscles you already use. You are just learning to "decouple accommodation and vergence "

By this I mean. When you look at something with both eyes, they converge together at that point in space. The angles of each eye meets.

Accommodation in vision refers to how the lens in your eye (the one behind the iris, not the cornea) changes in shape to focus light. Like how a focusing ring on a camera works.

Vergence and accommodations are synergistically linked. Meaning the often influence one another and function together. Each providing feedback to other to tune that ability to look at something with both eyes and it be brought to focus.

Here is how it relates to stereograms.

The trick to see them is to disconnect your accommodation from vergence.

Your eyes must converge to a point farther away than the actual location of the image. But accommodation must match the actual image location.

You are looking farther away yet your eye is focusing on the image. So it's clear and not blurry.

You can also do this where the vergence is in front of the image but that's way harder and took me a while to get the hang of it. It also causes more eye strain. These magic eye images are not intended to be viewed that way.

Now that you know the mechanism , this might help you figure out tactics to see the image.

Essentially it looks like 3d objects covered in wall paper pattern. There aren't any surface details. Just 3d shapes.

Hope that helps!

[–] Thelie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 50 minutes ago

Somehow I can only do them cross-eyed. I know with most of them are supposed to focus the eyes behind the image, but that never worked for me properly. I think I see the shapes "cut out" of the image rather than "poking out"…

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

Looks like 2 enemy ships at different angles and then a weird blob for some reason in the top right

[–] elevenbones@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Its been 30 years, I still dont see anything

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You know, that was me, too. I never could see anything in those posters people had.

But lately I've been seeing posts from someone on Facebook that makes them, and I've been able to see the image when I view it on my tablet or laptop.

This one didn't work, but I'm on my phone and don't have my glasses on. I'll try it on a larger screen later.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago

It was only a couple of years ago I finally managed tomdo these. It frustrated me sommuch as a kid.

People say relax your eyes which never worked. It's keeping your eyes crossed which works for me, don't track the image. Takes me a few goes now and in this one it's a Romulan War ship (whatever they're called)

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

These are easier when they take up most of your visual field. So try moving your face closer to your screen.

[–] SirHery@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Can you voluntarily unfocus your eyes?

[–] UsernamesAreForSuckers@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nearhat@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

“A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head”

YOUKNOWWHAT THEREISNOEASTERBUNNY OVERTHERETHATSJUSTAGUYINASUIT!

[–] Spiral75@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ha ha ha, You fucking idiot! It's a sailboat!

[–] nearhat@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

“A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head”

Movie quote

[–] Snowcano@startrek.website 4 points 10 hours ago

“A Bird of Prey IS a starship, ptaQ!”

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 62 points 15 hours ago (17 children)

A non-trek related one from the Bsky page that I thought was amazing:

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

Holy crap! At first I thought it was just the fish. Then I looked at the water surface, then at the background. That's dope as hell!

[–] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 19 points 14 hours ago (4 children)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 hours ago

Holy shit. I never knew there were animated one. Best troll ever.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Going blind has never felt so good

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Seriously! My eyes are burning, but it's a good burn.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Challenging!

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[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

That’s very nice.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

I can't see any of these ever. I've literally never been able to since I was a child.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I'm an 80s kid, I never was able to see these right

What am I supposed to see here?

[–] Kage520@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

It's hard to focus on this one for some reason, but it's some kind of enemy ship that I don't fully recognize

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

spoiler2 Romulan Warbirds

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 38 points 15 hours ago (4 children)
[–] Ninja876@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

I have never seen the hidden pictures ever. I totally can relate with William...

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

I don’t, either. I think the prescriptions for my two eyes are so far out of sync that my brain isn’t good at putting together information from both eyes at once. I’ve got a distance eye and a close-in eye.

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[–] notsure@fedia.io 1 points 7 hours ago

I upvote you, I downvote the other...it's a simple life...

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

these always seem backwards. I resolve them inside out.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They can't fire while cloaked!

Chang and Shinzon would disagree

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Ah, I was expecting Klingons.

Good luck if you're looking at this on a phone, is all I can say. You probably want to have Mr. Data put it on the main viewer screen first.

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[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

It took me a minute on my phone screen, but I can still see it!

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Always weird to me that the most direct, aggressive and honor-driven race is also the one that developed cloaking technology. Seems antithetical to all of that to be sneaky.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

I imagine Klingons probably acquired it through conquest. The honor thing seems pretty surface level to me.

[–] SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I usually can do these stereoscopic pics pretty easy, but I found this one to be harder! Maybe the resolution is too small? I eventuality got it to work on my phone (granted, it isn't a normal phone and has a huge screen) and it seems like it's a crossview and not a parallel view.

Check out c/ParallelView and c/CrossView to see the differences and see what works best for you! For me, parallel view is the best and easiest to do. Cross view on the other hand, is always an inverted perspective for me and I have never gotten that to work properly. What I do is relax my eyes so I see double and apply that when looking at these pics. Usually my brain auto adjusts it and it just works. Look up tutorials on it, it even works with videos!

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Never understood why anyone thought to make these things in parallel when crossing your eyes is infinitely easier.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's usually harder when there is distracting elements in the view. Like the Enterprise, sitting on top of this stereogram. Brain has a harder time to figure what to focus on.

[–] lawks@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Yep. Had to view in landscape orientation and zoom in to crop out those elements. Bonus was that moved the patterns further apart, making it easier to lock on (and fire photon torpedoes).

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I think you mean TWO threats.

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
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