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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!
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"…
Looks like 2 enemy ships at different angles and then a weird blob for some reason in the top right
Its been 30 years, I still dont see anything
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.
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)
These are easier when they take up most of your visual field. So try moving your face closer to your screen.
Can you voluntarily unfocus your eyes?

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Is it a schooner?
“A Bird of Prey IS a starship, ptaQ!”
A non-trek related one from the Bsky page that I thought was amazing:

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!
The animated ones are also really cool:
https://lemmy.world/post/25021843
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcKF-n7oCw8
Holy shit. I never knew there were animated one. Best troll ever.
Going blind has never felt so good
Seriously! My eyes are burning, but it's a good burn.
Challenging!
That’s very nice.
I can't see any of these ever. I've literally never been able to since I was a child.
I'm an 80s kid, I never was able to see these right
What am I supposed to see here?
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
spoiler
2 Romulan Warbirds

I have never seen the hidden pictures ever. I totally can relate with William...
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.
I upvote you, I downvote the other...it's a simple life...
They can't fire while cloaked!
Chang and Shinzon would disagree
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.
It took me a minute on my phone screen, but I can still see it!
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.
I imagine Klingons probably acquired it through conquest. The honor thing seems pretty surface level to me.
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!
Never understood why anyone thought to make these things in parallel when crossing your eyes is infinitely easier.
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.
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).
I think you mean TWO threats.