• This is interesting. Perhaps that's why some are harder to resolve than others.

    What the heck am I looking at? I love the variable depths, but I can’t make out what it is supposed to BE (if anything).

    It’s crossview, not standard magic eye- bowser from Mario

    It's one of the most detailed ones I've ever seen. The longer I looked at it, the more and more images emerged.

    I can hardly ever make them work on my phone screen.

    Your pfp is the perfect image for this kind of inquisitive revelation.

  • I can clearly see the picture, but what the hell is it?

    Looked like a frog by a cloud to me. But people are saying microscope and stuff.

    Ok, down further someone posted the image. That helps. It’s the invisible man in a laboratory.

    The Invisible Man doing chemistry

    It was Maybe a little too ambitious for a Magic Eye 👁️🤭

    It's the Driving Crooner, baby!

  • Invisible man at the bar?! lol

    I think he’s in a laboratory. There’s a microscope in front of him.

    I can get the hat and glasses clearly but the desk and microscope isn't working... will hat to try my phone in stead of leaning awkwardly into my 28" screen.

  • … Isn’t that why you hold the imagine closer/further from your face until it ‘clicks’?

    No, that is just an easy mechanism for somebody that is newer at them to learn how to see it.

    Once you learn how to see them you don't need to do that anymore

    You do if your pupils aren’t at the right distance lol

    Nope! Think about real life  do you have to move your head back and forth to focus on a stop sign? What about the TV? A picture on your wall? 

    My IPD is way above average. My partners is way below average. We can both see magic eyes just fine.

    Magic eyes create an illusion when you focus on a different point than the expected one.

    There are limits like the OP posted but those are exceptional.

    About time someone posted some accurate information about these, lol.

    I will accept exceptional limits.

    I don't know why you're being disagreed with but, yeah... the distance absolutely changes how much you have to or don't have to adjust your gaze which is the entire point of the post.

    Too close and the image would force you to move beyond a parallel gaze.... in this instance moving the image further would help.

    Yes but if the pattern is further apart then your eyes moving back doesn't help you.

    Then you move it closer 😂😂

    Your graphics are amazing

    Our eyes don’t just see straight ahead though.

    Most people can’t spread them apart though.

    This is almost always irrelevant though, I’ve never seen a magic eye where the pattern repeats further apart than like an inch.

    But if this was true, then only a subset of the population would be able to see an individual magic eye, and a different magic eye would only be able to be seen by a different subset. People have different pupillary distances, so if what OP claims is true, then there are magic eyes that other average humans can see that you will never be able to see OR what OP claims doesn’t consider that eyes don’t see in 2D, and isn’t accurate in the real world.

    You can see any magic eye with pattern spacing less-than-or-equal-to your eye spacing.

    https://i.redd.it/l58ipv2w3v2g1.gif

    If there was a magic eye with spacing too wide you could always scale it down to make it viewable (unless it was a print in which case you fucked up and printed it too large)

    Ideal spacing is a little less than eye width for best depth effect though.

    At this point, it isn’t so much that I don’t believe you but that I don’t know enough about eyes to understand what you are saying lol. Thanks for trying!

    Scaling it down is nearly the same as moving the image further away.

    I know it seems like it’s the same thing since if you just move it further away it will look smaller so it seems like that should work.

    But if your lines-of-sight are only able to divert to at most being parallel to one another then moving the image further away doesn’t give you an advantage since the distance between parallel lines is constant.

    https://i.redd.it/18phaaa3073g1.gif

    Even two hundred yards away your lines of sight haven’t separated at all if they're parallel.

    If you were able to diverge slightly beyond parallel then moving it further away would help

    Kind of, but at a point the "angle of error" becomes insignificant.

  • Interesting :)

    If the picture is so absurdly huge that the pattern is larger than your pupillary distance you just have to reduce it's size.

    Or if it's a physical print, you can take a picture of it from far away to get a tinier version.

    Last option is to look at it cross eyed, the depth will appear inverted but still is a way to see the hidden picture.

  • I was really confused about these flying glasses.

    I saw flying eyes wearing a hat and the body looked like a weird side ways seahorse/sea serpent type thing. The lamp looked like a flying saucer and the other elements were just random shapes 😂

    I saw the beaker he's holding as a some kind of duck head.. there's totally an eye in the design. Like the duck was craning its around to look behind itself

    Is it possible to invert it so we can see the picture using crossview?

    That's awesome. When I blow it up on the big screen I can make out the torso, hat, glasses, microscope, and even the two things they're holding.

    I can see a bunch of other random shapes around them, and I can make out their position in space, but it's not clear what they are.

    I have to be careful to only shift the image by one strip. It's very easy to put too much force on my eye muscles, and shift everything too far, and it just looks like a mess of random shapes with a row of hats, and a row of microscopes, and all sorts of weirdness, lol.

    Is it possible to reverse engineer a magic eye image? There's a bot that automatically takes r/ParallelView images, and converts them to r/CrossView. Is that kind of things possible for magic eye?

    I have accurate control over the muscles that make me cross eyed, and it works at any size, so I prefer CrossView. I can see ParallelView, but I had to mute that subreddit, because those muscles are difficult to control, and I often have to trick my eyes by looking at something else, and it straight up doesn't work when it's on the big screen.

    I don’t know of any software for converting a magic eye from parallel view to crossview.

    Converting r/parallelview to r/crossview is achieved my just swapping the images.

    To convert a magic eye from parallel view to crossview you would need to iterate across each pixel row of the image and identify the matching points and reverse their horizontal offsets.

    I think this would be difficult or in some cases impossible without knowing the algorithm that was used to generate it since there are lots of different algorithms.

    Some of the algorithms use random noise to fill in gaps as they draw each horizontal line of pixels, so that would make detecting pixel offsets pretty tricky.

    The easiest approach might be to convert the magic eye to a depthmap and then use the depthmap to make a crossview version. I was able to find the depthmap online in this case.

    Magic eye -> depthmap software isn’t good enough to get good results that way yet imo

    wait why is this like inscribed for me? is it supposed to pop out?

    Ahhh my program needs a bit more improvements. Good to know...

    How the hell am i supposed to see that😭😭

    Ive been trying for months... countless techniques, plus this one now, HOW

    How on earth does this come out of the colours?

    This was too esoteric for me, I didn't like it lol

  • In the third one, I can either see 1 dot centered back "behind" 4 dots OR I can also cross over a little more and see 2 dots in the middle "behind" 2 dots on the outside (1 on each side). I cannot seem to get myself to see 1 dot in front of the others. They always look like they are behind. Makes me wonder if I see some of these almost "reversed". For the longest time, I could not see anything so at least I can see something now I guess.

    Yes, if the dot (or dots depending on how far you overlap the pattern) is behind then you’re doing r/magiceye_crossview

    I have seen the parallel view come up a few times in my feed and I don't think I can "see" those. Any tricks to viewing them? I finally got these after trying to cross my eyes and still focus and once I saw one, I learned to keep crossing at different degrees until it would pop out. Is it somewhat the same for parallel view?

    OK. I was able to see 3 images when I crossed enough. The middle worked kind of like the crossview. I had to cross pretty hard to get there but then it worked and once I focused, it pretty much stayed and I could examine the picture pretty well. So then I went back to the 5 dots (3rd image). When I crossed enough, I felt like I could see 3 images again and the middle one was focused. I could see 3 dots but it sort of looked like they were all even though. Maybe the middle dot was a little closer but it was hard to tell. Then, as I relaxed my eyes, I could see the 2 dots behind the others and then relaxed a little more and I got back to the single dot that was behind the other 4. So it seems like maybe it is just varying degrees of crossing over (for me at least).

    Thanks for the help. I am going to check out some of the parallel views. :)

    If you are crossing your eyes as opposed to looking through the image at a point behind the screen, you’ll be seeing depth inverted from what it should be and some elements might clash with the overall scene. If that’s the case, r/CrossView would be a better fit for you. I find parallel to be more natural feeling, but do what you like best; most posts are converted and crossposted anyways.

    You can try lowering the brightness of your monitor and focusing on a reflection (or your fingers reflection as you move it back and forth until the pattern aligns).

    Since you want the point where your lines of sight intersect to be beyond the monitor.

    Since you seem to be an expert on this, I can cross my eyes to see four dots on the three dot image, but they don't seem to be behind/in front. They're just in a row.

    I've never been able to remotely see magic eye puzzles though, I feel like I have to balance the ratio I see out of both eyes because I naturally tend to want to see out of just one (or the other) so as to resolve the image that actually exists.

    Yes, the three dot image doesn’t have any depth effect since those dots are evenly spaced.

    In the six dot image the middle dots are slightly closer together than the others which gives it the depth effect.

    The good news is if you can adjust your eyes to see four dots in that three dot image then your eyes are doing the same thing that they do when you see a magic eye.

    Give this object array stereogram a try and see if you can relax your eyes until you notice the objects overlap. Then try to change the focus of your eyes without changing the point of intersection of your eyes (which should be behind the screen). You'll notice the donuts appear to be floating at different depths in 3D space.

    Then try some of the hidden 3d ones. They typically have alignment dots to help you get it lined up or you can use the repeating website logos. https://www.hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=gallery&oid=&pk=466

    r/magiceye_crossview is actually easier to use a trick to be able to see them

  • Honestly, I've been doing magiceye puzzles for 25 years, and I was today old when I learned about Parallel view. I always just thought some people were terrible at making magiceye puzzles, and would invert them on accident LOL. Thanks!

  • Am I the only one who saw the first picture and thought this was boob math before seeing the sub? 😂

    And the second picture too.

    Who doesn't love crossview boobs?

  • Essentially, you focus behind the image. The interesting thing is if you start to focus in front of the image. I started it by following a pencil, from the image towards my face. Then what is depicted comes out, and once your eyes get used to it, you can pass your hand through it!

  • I recently learned I can view them in two different depths! For photo 3, I can see two dots in 3D and then adjust and see one in 3D.

  • I’ve had a much easier time looking at magic eye on my phone or a smaller screen. I’ve been working up to larger monitors.

  • I browse reddit on my phone and my PC monitor (which is admittedly fairly large) and there are times I absolutely cannot see a magic eye on my monitor but if I load the same post on my phone, I can see it immediately. This explains why! Thank you for sharing!

  • Also the face doesnt show up, the hat and sunglasses do, buuuut, I'll raise a ale to your weird photo

    His had doesn’t show up either. Hey, I think there might be something fishy about this guy.

    To me the sunglasses and hat shows up with his top and whatever bottle hes pouring into the glass, his head doesn't show up and is the only thing not to show up

    Sorry, I meant his *hand doesn’t show up. Typo. It’s The Invisible Man.

  • I’ve actually honed the skill so much that in the 3rd picture, I can choose to see either one floating in the middle, 2 floating on the sides, or all 3 floating with nothing in between lol.

  • I opened this because I thought those were nipples and boobies 

  • If your pupillary distance is less than the pattern spacing* Magic Eye doesn't work.

    Link to the poster in the last image. I'm not affiliated, just crediting the source.

  • So, if you can align the 2nd sets of dots without doing cross view, does the mean your eyes are close together or far apart? I could make out the last image, but there was a lot going on, so it was hard to tell what it was without the solution. I'm viewing on my phone. If I were viewing on my computer, would it be easier?

    In your case it’s because you’re on a phone. The second set of green dots is to lo far apart on a computer screen.

    For the poster magic eye you can zoom in on your phone and pan around to look at it, or view it on a computer monitor yeah

    That makes sense for the dots. I will try them on my computer, but for the image, I didn't zoom. I left it at normal size for the experiment, so to speak. I have never really understood the difference between cross -eyed and regular magic eye, so I found this post interesting

  • Mine dont do that... My eyes shake to see it.

  • I can make there be only one dot with it only a few inches from my face

  • Wait that explains why cross eyes are so hard for me with my eyes not living in the same city

  • To fix this, you can either zoom the image or get skull surgery, your call.

  • Could you explain the last image? I never have a hard time seeing any magic eyes but this one I am having trouble seeing anything but the middle and I can’t tell what it is. What do you mean by a lot of strips?

    The number of repeating vertical strips, it has ~20, most of the ones posted to this sub have like 9 or less.

    Gotcha. So the they can show more in a wider image but still keep it in the size of the normal persons IPD?

    Yeah this is designed to be a poster.

    The rule is basically (print width / eye spacing) = minimum number of strips

  • I can see the harder one, but it's much harder to focus on because it gets rid of the middle dot

  • Neat! click

  • I can't bring the image together. What I can tell is supposed to be a cloud, is more like part of a cloud with two parts of a cloud on either side. It's not one solid shape.

  • Why did you full-screen in chrome then take a screenshot? Just rightclick and save as image next time

  • I can get like 1/6 to work. :c

  • The pattern is so close together on this one that I can't resolve it. There's a sweet spot for me

    It’s designed to be a giant poster so best viewed on a monitor. On a phone it is extremely difficult but you can zoom in and look at it in sections.

  • I have never been able to get one of these images to "work" for me, I genuinely have no idea what yall are doing to make this mess of color become a coherent image.

    Just so you know the coherent image is just a 3D model or scene with the texture pattern kinda sprayed onto it.

    This is what a Magic eye looks like

    https://i.redd.it/l451y0vl373g1.gif

    The colors don’t align to create a fully colored crystal clear image (tho that is a common misconception), just a depth effect for a very convincing 3D effect since your eyes are receiving stereo info it tricks your brain into thinking it’s seeing a 3D object, basically like spacial audio for your eyes.

    interesting that i can't see anything meaningful when i pause this

    Is there one of these I can show someone of parallel view that has the same as ideas as the image above so they can compare the differences and stuff. Obviously doesn't need to be the exact same image.

    r/wigglegrams is basically where I got the idea for this. You can convert wigglegrams to r/parallelview by taking the left and right perspective and putting the side by side.

    Here’s the magic eye of Charizard if that’s what you mean

    r/wigglegrams is basically where I got the idea for this. You can convert wigglegrams to r/parallelview by taking the left and right perspective and putting the side by side.

    Here’s the magic eye of Charizard if that’s what you mean

    https://preview.redd.it/316xumzhmv3g1.jpeg?width=1670&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9143b7bf2fb863c0e5909ef3575fc428902b7af9

    If you mean an inverted one (so it looks dented in like a mold - when you crossview on a magic eye or parallel view on a r/magiceye_crossview) I haven’t made one like that

  • I can see it but I can’t tell what’s going on. Is it a circus scene that I’m seeing. There’s was a lot going on

  • Whats paralel view than?

    Left eye looking at left image, right eye looking at right image

    r/parallelview

    Ohh, so how vr works? Yeah i could do those already! Thanks!

  • I have never been able to do these, and that makes me sad. Is it a schooner?!

  • I’ve never gotten any of these; what even are they meant to do?

    It’s always been a bunch of random colours to me

    Oh! That’s so handy thank you

  • I’ve never been able to see them

  • I've had some of the worst nearsightedness I've ever heard of and I think that is why it makes these extremely easy for me to see. My eyes are negative 7 and without help I cant see anything past about a foot 

  • Other people can't make their eyes go walleye? I guess I didn't expect everyone ty be able to but I thought it would comparable the amount of people who can Cross their eyes, maybe a little less. It's like crossing your eyes but the opposite. I'm blown away to find out this isn't common, I'm 40freakin6!
    I can also cross my eyes without needing a physical focal point, I was told that most folk need to stare at a finger or something like that.
    Fwiw my vision is interesting. Very different astigmatisms in each eye, one is very near-sighted, the other very far sighted so I'm used to everything being blurry and weird