Autism and the "magic eye"

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Hello fellow inhabitants of the wrong planet!

I was asking myself whether aspies and other autists can cope with the "Magic Eye". I hope that I do not evoke any sensory overloads here now... An aspergian friend of mine has reported aching eyes, so be careful.

For those who don't know about the magic eye: It is about pictures which seemingly are just chaosy patterns but contain a three-dimensional image inside them which is possible to see without any apparatus or glasses - they work simply by tricking the viewers brain into thinking there is depth on a flat ground.

This is an example for such a picture:

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It should be a pretty easy one, although the magic eye requires some practice.

How to get to the 3D image:

Go very close to the image and touch it with your nose while trying to "look through" the screen.
Then slowly go backwards, and at some point a three dimensional image should form.
If you start to see something three-dimensional appear, stop moving backwards and let your eyes adapt to it, then slowly continue.
Don't try to force it into appearing, or else it will vanish.

If this does not work, try to squint while looking at the picture and don't move.
Slowly go back to normal view.
Before reaching normal view, you should see how a 3D image forms itself.
Try to focus on that image gently to see it clearly.
Note: This will form the negative of the actual image.


NOTE: Sometimes printing out the image helps, the 3D effect is still present and unchanged.

If you like this, you can find a lot more on the web by googling "magic eye".

Yours,
Baryonyx

(I wasn't sure about the right forum, I hope this fits here)

...... Easy? ... I can see the shape... but it looks like a weird amorphous shape with an artifact line extending down from the bottom....
Like... maybe a country of some sort, except with some random line extending from the underside because someone screwed up?

Oh my, you've taken me back to my student days.

I like this one:

Thanks for reminding me of these. I used to love them when I was a kid.

I saw the 1st one immediately, looks like a tree. I was unable to see the text one. I've always loved the magic eye pictures.

I still remember when my little brother brought home one of those Magic Eye books a few years ago...I was entranced by it for hours! Such a cool concept.

I can't make them out.

I first saw these in stores when I was about 7 (21 years ago). The store had the magic eye posters on lower shelves and I'd walk to them, sit down on the floor and stare at them until my parents dragged me away

I got a magic eye book for christmas that year and I carried it everywhere for like 2 weeks!

I see a sign.

Tree and Stop wasting your time. I love magic eye images. Can see them straight away.

I never see anything in those.

These have always been a massive frustration for me. The seem like such a fun and fascinating concept! I've never been able to see one, but I was obsessed with them at about 11 - 12yrs old. I must have devoted hundreds of hours to these things and have never seen through one in my life. *angryface*

It's only recently that I've been able to use the eye-divergence method of seeing those. Before that I used convergence, and I'd see most of them with the depth information reversed. Late last year I finally got sick of it and sat down with some until I could view them properly.
They only give me aching eyes after quite a while of viewing them, but I would think that that's just tired muscles and as such, pretty normal.

The first one looks like Australia on a stick.

I've never been able to see one of these... if I stare too long my eyes start twitching.