#autostereogram

[tumbler-polls]

An autostereogram is a two-dimensional (2D) image that can create the optical illusion of a three-dimensional (3D) scene. 

[savashroom]

poll time

Cross your eyes or go wall-eyed to see the image.

Relax your eyes until the 2 squares converge into 3, and you should be able to see the 3D image pop out!

also hey rb this bc all my friends keep telling me im crazy and they dont believe theres actually a 3D image so i wanna see if other people can see it.

[tilbageidanmark]

"If you can be anything, be kind"

(Squint your eyes...)

[lazybug16]

[visualtargets]

What do you see….? 😳

[shibs]

Autostereograms, from "Magic Eye, a new way of looking at the world vol. 1" (1993) An autostereogram is a two-dimensional image that can create the optical illusion of a three-dimensional scene.

(Here's a reddit post with tips on how to see the 3D images!)

Can you see the hidden images? Answers after the read more!

While there's no exact way of showing you what the images are supposed to look like, I've edited their answers in photoshop to try and show you the depths you're supposed to be seeing.

I've tried to do the duplicate and difference layer method I've heard about but couldn't quite get it right (maybe because these are autostereograms rather than stereogram?), the stereogram solver tools online also didn't quite work right. So hasty photoshop edit it is!

First pic is a raindrop! This one is the coolest of the bunch and feels really tridimensional.

Second one is a heart! According to the reddit post, the heart is supposed to be popping out of the pic, but I guess I'm using the wrong method cause I see the heart sinking into the image instead haha.

Last pic is the planet earth! You can even see a clear cut for the americas which I could not quite show with the photoshop edit.

[musaboth]

[ykrecordsblog]

Eve Maret "Miracle"

[elodee3]

Day 4: Alt Hermit + stereograms

For alt hermit day I created a very simple stereogram using Poe Skizz's face!

Stereograms are optical illusion that let you see a 2D pattern in 3D. When looking at the image, cross your eyes slightly. If you do it right, half the Poe Skizzes with pop out in 3D.

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Stereograms work by repeating an image and making small changes so that your brain is tricked into filling in one part of the pattern, as seen by one eye, into another similar looking part of the pattern, as seen by your other eye. This results in an illusion where part of the image will float above the rest when viewed with slightly crossed eyes.

Simple two image stereograms have been around for many years, but complex stereograms, called random-dot autostereograms, were popularized by a book called Magic Eye in the 1990s.

[rawrawrawrrr]

j hate autostereograms

i can never figure out how to see the images in them and I feel so stupif

what do you mean this a shark I want to see :(

stop it :(

[freebooter4ever]

ngl this is absolutely terrifying

[gaasuba]

I don't know who needs to hear this but

You aren't supposed to cross your eyes to see magic eye pictures

[reality-detective]

These Are The Real Video Images Of 911, And Not Those Autostereogram Image Projections We Have Seen. 🤔

[blak68-rit]

bellissima fic, fa parte di una serie

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oh autostereogram by marycontraire we're really in it now

[ckret2]

One of my wishes in this fic is that Bill is forced to watch a movie with his family using 3D glasses, and that the movie includes a scene where Venetian blinds are shown, and when a character in the movie rotates them, the signal goes away and shows static. I want Bill to suffer the biggest scare of his existence.

u didn't expect a serious In Depth Writer Reply but ur getting a serious In Depth Writer Reply, sorry anon.

It's been a while since I wrote about this so there's no way I'm gonna be able to dig up the posts again—but I've got beef with the phobias listed on TINAWDC. Mainly because I can't figure a way for them to all make sense.

The TV static makes plenty of sense—we know from the deluxe version of TBOB that Bill hears voices in the static, it wouldn't be a stretch to guess that the messages hidden in the noise and in the visual static and in spectrograms on TINAWDC and the Lofi album might be the kinds of things he sees/hears in TV static. Hearing the Euclidean Massacre and seeing messages and songs from his parents and people is a damn good reason to have a phobia.

(So I plan to do a lot with the static in the fic. Multiple times. I have an entire plot arc around the static. Rainbow Brite is there. It's gonna be great.)

On the other hand, 3D glasses make less sense. The most obvious connections are "oh, 3D vision, 3D stuff is a big deal to Bill" and "the lenses are red and blue—like his parents!!" Except that's not sufficient for them to make sense as a phobia.

On the 3D front, 3D vision doesn't work like that, "3D glasses" don't give you "3D vision"—what 3D glasses do is make specially-colored 2D images have the illusion of depth due to how your binocular vision works. They're called anaglyphs, you can learn the science here.

A) Bill doesn't have binocular vision, so 3D glasses wouldn't have any affect on him anyway, because he'd only be able to see through one lens at a time, B) what we typically mean when we say "3D vision" is actually "depth perception" and Bill can already see depth just fine—he can see things that are close to him and he can see things that are far from him, that's what depth perception is, he can perceive depth, he wouldn't need the glasses for that even if they did work, and so C) the only way "he's scared of them because 3D vision" could make sense would be if... he was scared of them because they don't successfully let him see anaglyphs as an illusion of 3D? Which is goofy. He'd be frustrated, not scared.

We already see how Bill reacts when he's told there's an image that lets you see an illusion of depth if you have binocular vision. He talks about magic eye/autostereogram images in TBOB. He's not afraid of them; he says that people who claim they can see things in them are liars. He publishes an autostereogram in TBOB himself!

So much for the 3D vision theory.

And if he were scared of them JUST because their colors make him think of his parents... then why would he be drawing a bunch of red and blue triangles in art? Logically, he ought to be scared of a bunch of red/blue things, oughtn't he. But he isn't.

As it happens today I did think of a way for the Theraprism staff to have gotten the impression Bill has a phobia of 3D glasses that makes sense with canon and that I'm satisfied with... but, operating under the headcanon I've got now, "wearing 3D glasses" in general wouldn't trigger the phobia, and Bill can't be triggered by it as long as he's stuck in his current situation. For Reasons That I'm Not Going To Tell You. The right conditions don't exist to trigger it. (Might draw a comic about it.)

And the Venetian blinds thing I can't make sense of at all. I've yet to see a single theory for the Venetian blinds phobia that isn't either proposing it triggers him for a reason that would cause a lot of other things to trigger him too (ex: "maybe seeing narrow slits of light in the dark makes him think of how vision in Euclydia works"—if that's the case, then why isn't he also triggered by the slit of light under the door when you're in a dark room and the room outside the door is lit?), or just wholesale completely making up an explanation (ex: "maybe the jail he was locked up in after his post-breakup bender had a window with Venetian blinds"—okay, you can headcanon that, but you did just make it up).

I don't believe that "Venetian blinds" would've been listed as a trigger unless it was for a reason that we're supposed to be able to logically deduce (like the TV static). So I don't wanna just make up something unfounded.

So how can I write him being triggered by Venetian blinds if I don't know how they trigger him, why they trigger him, or how he reacts to them? Like, if (made-up example) he's scared of Venetian blinds because seeing the white slats with strips of black night sky between them makes him think of black and white striped prison uniforms, then if I wrote him getting scared of closed brown wooden slats on a sunny day... that wouldn't make any sense.

Without knowing how & why the blinds trigger him, writing him getting triggered would just be going "AAAUGH OH NO IT'S VENETIAN BLINDS AAAAH!!" with no depth.

So until we get the truth and/or somebody comes up with a theory I like, I'm just not including Venetian blinds in the fic at all. Everybody has beautiful curtains or quaint old-fashioned shutters now.

[nokingsonlyfooles]

I'll be damned. It IS a diagnostic.

Ya know, @kithpendragon, I recall you mentioning you never thought of Magic Eye posters as a diagnostic, when I mentioned never being able to do them (and now I can!) but I did wonder if I'd just learned how instead of correcting something that kept me from seeing them. I got curious and the internet delivered!

There are several blog articles about it, but that there is a goddamn scientific paper.

If I'd known this in 6th grade when the damn things got popular, I could've fixed my eye when I was still a kid!

If you can't find the shark, you may have a problem!

For the rest of you, my eyes didn't used to line up. It wasn't enough to look obvious, just enough to give me trouble focusing. It also made me clumsier (impaired 3D vision means not knowing quite where things and people are) increased my anxiety in crowds (again, I wouldn't have known for sure where everyone really was) and made me read words all weird (I read them by their general shape, so I spell very badly). I didn't know any of that. That was just me. Until recently.

I've spent most of this year teaching my eyes to work together. My reward: LASIK (hopefully) and I can finally see Magic Eye posters. The LASIK is because I'm old enough to need dual correction and bifocals and progressives are not an option. My eye still tries to pull out of whack, and if I put on glasses that work like an obstacle course, it will.

I'm slow to focus and I still read words all weird. That might get better, or it might not. I'm grateful to have improved as much as I have. I can read and draw again! It still hurts a little because I need that dual correction, but I'm hopeful.

And I could've started this process 30 years ago! If only someone had realized those funny posters tell you how good your stereo vision is!