My mom has a picture in her room with a crazy optical illusion design. Everybody says they see a picture of Jesus on the cross but I’ve never seen it in 25 years. I’ve never been able to see any objects in those hidden object pictures. I think everyone who says they can see those are full of it.
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Please let me know what the answer is because same. I’ve never been able to unfocus my eyes enough or whatever to see the pics.
Did some reading and will attempt to explain like you are five.
Magic Eye images are comprised of two flat images laid side by side with another layer of random black and white dots. Your brain sees these two images and instead of seeing two separate images fuses them into one resulting in a 3D effect.
We may have some sort of processing or visual error that makes us unable to view them.
same never been able to see illusion. I have astigmatism so it may effect it?
Think about how our eyes gauge distance. We take 2 images (one from each eye) and our brain compares them. It is able to take the different perspectives from our 2 eyes and use it to measure distance.
Next, make your own eyes cross. Notice how you can see 2 of everything and depending on how much you cross your eyes you can change the relative position of the duplicates you see.
Next step, lets do a test. Take 2 identical small objects and place them on a table in front of you a few inches apart. I used pop bottle caps but you can use anything that has a little bit of detail to it.
Stare at one of the objects and cross your eyes (aka make them unfocused). Now play with the focus a bit so that the duplicate of 1 object overlaps with the duplicate of the other object. It’s really funny because immediately the overlapped object will snap into focus and will appear somewhat strange. Like an old fashioned cartoon where there’s an object that’s about to be interacted with.
Now, that overlapping focus trick, that’s what you want to do with the picture. You take the repeating pattern and make it overlap with itself by unrousing your eyes.
These images, appear to be repeating patterns, but there’s actually flaws in the pattern, places where it’s not actually exactly the same as the pattern right next to it. When you slightly unforces your eyes and overlap the pattern our brains see the flaws, the brain then assumes that the flaws are a matter of perspective difference between our 2 eyes. This is what makes the 3d object appear. It’s because our brain is interpreting flaws in the patterns causing different inputs to each eye to be caused by variations in distance. To us, it then appears as if there’s a 3d object inside the picture.
You have to be somewhat careful when unrousing your eyes not to over do it as the pattern’s won’t overlap correctly. If you tilt your head to the side, the patterns won’t overlap correctly. Hell, sometimes even blinking can be enough to snap the focus back to proper and you won’t see the image anymore. It’s somewhat of a balance.
Are we talking about autostereograms, MagicEye puzzles? There is a trick to viewing them; you have to uncouple your eyes, basically the opposite of crossing them. Try staring at a point several yards beyond the picture or place your face right against the image and slowly back away to let your eyes resolve the illusion
It’s not mass hysteria or whatever you think it is. It’s accomplishable. Try something like this music video.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKtp3XHn38&ab_channel=YoungRival](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKtp3XHn38&ab_channel=YoungRival)
Edit: You basically cross your eyes until the dots match to form one and then you let it…”click” into place and stay like that. That’s really the only way I know how to explain it from my personal experience.
Nah, it’s a real thing.
Basically you’re unfocusing or crossing your eyes so that the repeating parts of the pattern on the image overlap one another.
Hit the sweet-spot, and there are subtle differences in the pattern which produce an image when brought together.
If you want to train yourself, get two similarly sized/shaped objects on a plain background and try and cross your eyes so there appear to be three of them.
If you can do that, you’ll be able to see jesus.
If I’m not mistaken, they are stereoscopic ‘drawings’ that use the giant field of ‘noise’ to disguise the ‘lines’ at a casual glance.
I know that’s a lot of ‘in quotation’, but it may help to try looking at undisguised 3d images to get practice with the technique.
[r/parallelview](https://www.reddit.com/r/ParallelView/) is a great resource for this!
Vox has a good video explaining autostereograms:
[https://www.vox.com/videos/2016/10/21/13352804/magic-eye-explained](https://www.vox.com/videos/2016/10/21/13352804/magic-eye-explained)
The whole “uncouple your eyes”, “cross your eyes”, “see past the picture” ideas never worked for me. What DID work for me to see the image inside the pattern is via the following:
First, don’t even look at the pattern. Put your two forefingers together (or any two fingers), tip to tip, to create a horizontal bridge. Then cause your eyes to go double-vision so that the left finger overlaps the right finger and create a little faux “sausage” between the two fingers. This is the concept you’re looking for. Overlap the left with the right.
Next, look at the pattern and you’ll notice it repeats from left to right. Do the same thing and make the repeating pattern overlap. If you can get one set to overlap the next set, the hidden image will appear. This is because the pattern is intentionally not perfect. The differences from one pattern to the next is what creates the hidden image.
* Obviously, if you’re not capable of binocular vision, this will not work, I’m afraid.
I’ve got a few of these posters from back in the 80’s (?) sometime. I’ll have to go get them out now. Thanks for the memories.
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