Stereo Art

mallochai · October 5, 2006

Remember magic eye?

This is slightly remeniscent.

I like the first grouping the best, all dangly and whatnot.

After a while, it gave me a headache, but still, fucking fantastic.

Grogon Stereo Art

mallochai · October 5, 2006

OOooohh... and the tinker toy screens. Sweet.

LuluVox · October 5, 2006

I can't cross my eyes. :(

Onyx · October 5, 2006

Took me awhile to get my eyes unfocused, but it was really cool!

kellygrrrrrl · October 5, 2006

I have NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER been able to see those damn things.

*pouts*

When they came out way back in the day, I was always so jealous cause I could never see them....everyone around me was like "oooh ahhhh...oooooh....awsome, cool!".....

Not me! =(

Soulrev · October 5, 2006

I like those, they're always fun..

Some people just can't see it though.

LuluVox · October 5, 2006

I have NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER been able to see those damn things.
*pouts*

When they came out way back in the day, I was always so jealous cause I could never see them....everyone around me was like "oooh ahhhh...oooooh....awsome, cool!".....

Not me! =(

ME TOO! I feel your pain. :cry

Paper Hearts · October 5, 2006

I don't understand it, but it seems spectacular.

mallochai · October 6, 2006

I can't cross my eyes. :(

HAHA!

:wink

mallochai · October 6, 2006

Heh, my punishment for making fun of people who can't see it - I have a fucking headache today from starting crosseyed at the computer screen.

Troy Spiral (13) · October 6, 2006

I've tried so hard to be able to "see" these things. (the "magic eye style" especially) I even bought a book about it so i could stare at them at home and try and get it to work. I just cant and its really demoralizing. It totally seems like the kind of thing i would be into and be able to do.

I've litterally spent hours at it in the past.

There is an art gallery that had nothing but this stuff in it (more the magic eye stuff but some like these as well) and i stood in that place all evening one night trying to get these things to "work". I had the director and a bunch of the patrons standing next to me saying "ok well.. you see how theres this shape over here... and this other shape over here... well sort of stare in the middle and.."

mallochai · October 6, 2006

When I was a kid, I used to sit in the dark and stare at the ceiling, letting my eyes go unfocused. When I did that, I'd start to see strange shapes and patterns, like swirling checkerboards in front of my eyes. I could only do it until I had to blink, but I use the same technique when looking at magic eye type things.

For me, it's a matter of staring at something with both eyes, then letting my vision go out of focus so that I feel like I was only looking at the thing with one eye. Everything but a specific spot goes out of focus. Then it's just a matter of altering the muscles controlling the eyes until they kind of snap into place. It feels like trying to see clearly under murky water.

It's gotten much easier to do it over the years too. It used to take me five minutes or more to get the trick, but not it's just a matter of seconds.

LuluVox · October 6, 2006

Boohiss. I had surgery on my eye when I was two, and I haven't been able to cross me eyes since. However, I no longer have a lazy eye when I get tired, so it's a fair trade, I'd say. :D

BrassFusion · October 6, 2006

If some of you guys physically CAN cross your eyes but are just having trouble with it, go to the balloon picture. Just look at it and cross your eyes. Then SLOWLY bring your eyes back into center focus. Before they get there, some of the balloons of the same color will line up. Try to hold your eyes in that position and it should come into focus.

Edit: Actually, the baloons are always along the same color lines. So when you cross your eyes, you should see twice as many balloons on the screen. As you bring your eyes together, the pictures will overlap and you'll see fewer. The proper, uh, "eye-setting" is when you see one more balloon per line than is actually on the screen.

n0Mad · October 6, 2006

"Ha! You're wrong. It's a sailboat."

"A schooner is a sailboat. *kicks*"

I've been into these things since they first started gaining press in 1991. I even bought a computer program to make my own though it was pretty basic. Now that I understand the concept behind them, I've been meaning to try some with ascii characters and even hand draw some on graph paper. Yes, it is possible.

I find it's easier to see them if you diverge your eyes (stare through the screen) rather than converge your eyes (crossing them). The balloon one is a good one to practice on because of the black background. Don't look at the balloons at all but rather your reflection in the monitor. If your focus is perfect for you reflection, that should be the necessary interocular distance for your eyes and subtly the balloons may go 3D.

Speaking of interocular distance, most of the pics seem to have the same required interocular distance so if you can hold your focus, you can arrow through the pics and they will all be 3D without requiring you to refocus on each one.

Anyway, thanks for the link.

mallochai · October 8, 2006

snarf

Troy Spiral (13) · October 9, 2006

When I was a kid, I used to sit in the dark and stare at the ceiling, letting my eyes go unfocused. When I did that, I'd start to see strange shapes and patterns, like swirling checkerboards in front of my eyes. I could only do it until I had to blink, but I use the same technique when looking at magic eye type things.

For me, it's a matter of staring at something with both eyes, then letting my vision go out of focus so that I feel like I was only looking at the thing with one eye. Everything but a specific spot goes out of focus. Then it's just a matter of altering the muscles controlling the eyes until they kind of snap into place. It feels like trying to see clearly under murky water.

It's gotten much easier to do it over the years too. It used to take me five minutes or more to get the trick, but not it's just a matter of seconds.

Yeah thats partly what kills me. I can stare at the same space so long the room goes dark. (your brain gets bored if you can keep your eyes still long enough and just blacks out. Yep really. But its a bitch, or so im told, to keep your eyes still enough to do it. No blinking either. ) I can cross my eyes on command ect.

I think maybe i have an undiagnosed stigmatism or something which prevents me from getting the "stereo" effect from both eyes. :unsure:

mallochai · October 9, 2006

Yeah thats partly what kills me. I can stare at the same space so long the room goes dark. (your brain gets bored if you can keep your eyes still long enough and just blacks out. Yep really. But its a bitch, or so im told, to keep your eyes still enough to do it. No blinking either. ) I can cross my eyes on command ect.

I think maybe i have an undiagnosed stigmatism or something which prevents me from getting the "stereo" effect from both eyes.

Nah. I have astigmatism. It's at 4.75 in one eye, and 3.25 in the other. You're just paranoid. It's truly debilitating. :tongue:

n0Mad · October 9, 2006

It took me forever to learn how to see these, but once it clicked I could do it more easily with each successive time. Now I can stare at it and almost instantly get the image.

n0Mad · October 9, 2006

For those of you who can see stereographic images, here are some links to some animated ones. For those of you who can't, with the motion of these animations it makes viewing tricky for even experienced pros so I would advise against you even trying. You'll probably end up with a headache, both figuratively and literally.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...mated_Shark.gif

http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~petz/images/anim-2.gif

http://www.3dwonderstuff.com/gallery_pages...animations.html

BrassFusion · October 9, 2006

For those of you who can see stereographic images, here are some links to some animated ones. For those of you who can't, with the motion of these animations it makes viewing tricky for even experienced pros so I would advise against you even trying. You'll probably end up with a headache, both figuratively and literally.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...mated_Shark.gif

http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~petz/images/anim-2.gif

http://www.3dwonderstuff.com/gallery_pages...animations.html

*Wow.*

I like the black and white dancing spaghetti-o's.

kellygrrrrrl · October 9, 2006

ARG! Still can't see!

I've tried the finger thing, looking through glass,...croissing my eyes naturally,....

moving in a out slowly....

I give up!

:cry

n0Mad · October 11, 2006

ARG! Still can't see!

I've tried the finger thing, looking through glass,...croissing my eyes naturally,....

moving in a out slowly....

I give up!

I'll help you sometime in person. Especially with that moving in and out slowly thing. :laugh:

Seriously, with stereo art I have some techniques that just might get you to break through.

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