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Re: Show HN: MagicEye.js – Generate Magic Eye in Your Browser

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Post by zachrose »

happyshadows wrote: post #2

When Lord? When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?

Relax your eyes!

I've never been able to see one of these things on a screen until now. Now that I have, I really want too see an animated one.

The coolest thing so far is that you can click "redraw" and you'll cut to the next one and your eyes will already be focused for it.

Re: Show HN: MagicEye.js – Generate Magic Eye in Your Browser

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Post by peeinears »

zachrose wrote: post #3
happyshadows wrote: post #2

When Lord? When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?

Relax your eyes! I've never been able to see one of these things on a screen until now. Now that I have, I really want too see an animated one. The coolest thing so far is that you can click "redraw" and you'll cut to the next one and your eyes will already be focused for it.

Look, it's a schooner! ;)

There's pretty recent music video that's all autostereogram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKtp3XHn38 The dots at the beginning are helpful.

I don't think MagicEye.js is fast enough to do a bunch of frames on the fly for some real-time animation, unfort. But if you already have the frames rendered you could stitch them together into a gif.

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zachrose wrote: post #3
happyshadows wrote: post #2

When Lord? When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?

Relax your eyes! I've never been able to see one of these things on a screen until now. Now that I have, I really want too see an animated one. The coolest thing so far is that you can click "redraw" and you'll cut to the next one and your eyes will already be focused for it.

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Re: Show HN: MagicEye.js – Generate Magic Eye in Your Browser

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Post by ollysb »

happyshadows wrote: post #2

When Lord? When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?

Here's how I do it: you'll notice that there's a repeating pattern, cross your eyes until you get two of the repititions to be on top of each other. Once you've done this you should find that the shapes pop out.

Re: Show HN: MagicEye.js – Generate Magic Eye in Your Browser

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Post by robert_tweed »

If you don't quite have the knack for relaxing your eyes to see these, here's "one weird trick".

Position yourself with something behind you (such as a window) that you can see reflected on the screen. Focus on the reflection so you are looking "through" the screen. Now re-focus on the screen, but not immediately! Hold your focus and let it "slip" as slowly as possible. At some point your eyes will converge at the right depth and you'll catch a glimpse of the shapes behind the screen. When you see the pattern starting to come into focus, lock your eyes onto it. The first few times you'll probably catch a glimpse but fail to lock on. Repeat until you get the hang of it.

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