Magic Eye!!

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Is it just me? Or do aspies seem to do better at magic eye then NTs? I don't even need to focus on a magic eye image in order to see the effects.

Give it a try! If anyone has any more images... post them!

I've never been able to see a picture in the kind like the first example. There's one in an office I clean that I've been trying to get for years. Finally I asked someone to tell me what and where the objects were and I still couldn't. I know why now though. My eyes don't work in exactly the right way to see these because I had amblyopia as a child. My right eye would trail off and I had to do exercises to strengthen the muscle. I always thought it was entirely a muscular thing but now they say it's neurological and the eye gets weak because it doesn't get enough input so it sort of gives up. I've always been frustrated that I can't enjoy Magic Eye.

1. Shark.

2. 3D Chessboard.

3. Several layers of tigers in the foreground.

It took me ages the first time years ago. I find them fairly easy nowadays. This is the first one time I've seen them on a computer screen, didn't know they worked on anything other than glossy paper.

Just type in "Magic eye pictures" in Google. It finds lots. Here is one I just found.
The question is how many groups of candy are there? Well?

Can't see the shark- the other ones I don't get where the illusion is supposed to be. I clearly see a 3d chessboard and the other one looks like what it looks like. Is it a different kind of Magic Eye?

I see 11 3-D candies

The second and third ones are like the first one in the sense that if you see them correctly they are not like flat photographs of three dimensional things. They are more like pop up books. The images literally do have depth - like you are looking at a hologram.

For example the tigers literally appear to pop out of the screen as four rows - just like they were in a pop up book.

Me too you win the prize - candy!

More, more, more... I love looking at these things. It took me a few minutes to get my eye back in to see your first image, but then after remembering how to look at these things I can normally see them within ten seconds or so. They are quite amazing the way they suddenly pop out of the page.

This is a pretty one, reminds me a bit of the nuclear symbol with the loops. The 3D effect on this one is very good. You can almost reach into the picture and lift out the loops. Even the background is 3D - it looks like a bumpy knitted texture.

Ooooh. That one is nice. Easy too.

Ooooo... look at all of those balls!




Here is some more!



This one is really easy:

I cannot see any magic eye pictures. My vision is too screwed up.

When they were first created years ago, it took me a number of hours of looking at them over the course of several months before I could see them too. I think a lot of people don't see them because they haven't stumbled on the technique. Now I can see them in seconds. It is all a question of focus. I let my focus shift as though I'm looking a few inches behind the picture - this makes the picture go out of focus and look blurry, but persist and keep your focus beyond the picture. If you can't consciously control your eyes like this just let your focus go soft and blurry. After a while the brain detects the stereoscopic effect and suddenly the image leaps out as 3D. The background of the image literally looks like it is several inches behind the monitor - like the computer screen has a big hole in it! The first time you see one you go WOW! The effect is so unexpected, just like a big hologram.

They can even work with text! Can you see the big letter?

^sweeet. I'm going to need to try one of those...

Those things hurt my eyes - literally