ITT: everyone telling us their stories about how great they are at stereograms. We get it, you're all super special.
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I can't overlap the images to save my life - they get like halfway there and that's it...
It's like https://triaxes.com/docs/3DTheory-en/522ParallelCrosseyedvie... which some people struggle with, somebody posted a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram to HN yesterday which some people get and others don't. (That's different from the "cross-eyed stereogram" because one of them involves having two images and the other one has one image with two images hidden in it)
I have a big problem crossing my eyes too while having no problem with the parallel view way seeing stereograms. I am actually going to stop trying as my eyes started to hurt.
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#173I remember doing this as a child on our TV that had a picture-in-picture setting. I would set the same channel twice and cross my eyes pretending that it was 3d TV.
How does that work when the two images are different sizes and overlapping? Did your PiP mode have a split screen option? The ones I've seen only allowed moving where the insert was placed (which corner), but it was always a PiP and never a split screen.
Yes, it had a split screen option where the two images were the same size and side by side. Can't recall what kind of TV it was... perhaps a Sony?
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#174I discovered this trick independently about a decade ago, to use cross-eyed viewing to easily spot differences between two similar images. Like you said, the parts that mismatch appear to shimmer and be unstable, making them obvious. However, I feel eye strain from doing it, so I prefer other methods. 99% of the time, I do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_comparator instead, just switching between two images with…
To reduce eye strain, don’t cross your eyes, but relax them (so, the other way). Instantly clear and snaps together as if magnetic.
The problem I have with this is that instead of the images completely overlapping they overlap a section in the middle. I can't get both images to completely overlap and am getting some eye strain from trying to force them.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't overlap the images to save my life - they get like halfway there and that's it...
Try on mobile, it's easier if the images are smaller.
Wow, yeah it happened immediately for me on mobile while I couldn't get past half way on my monitor. Thanks!
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#176This is a game mechanic in one of the trials in Ace Attorney Chronicles.
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#177I knew some people who used it to compare aerial photos (though generally a special device with mirrors was used).
> though generally a special device with mirrors was used
Maybe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_comparator
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#178Do people not know about this?
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#179This is the coolest thing I have seen on here!!
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
I spent far too much time as a twenty-something generating autostereograms, which seems to have trained my eyes. I was able to "cross" the images on this page very quickly.
NB autostereograms require you to move your eyes away from each other, the opposite of crossing them. To put it another way, crossing your eyes is what your eyes do when you're looking at something close to you, while the opposite is when you're looking far away. Which is why for ASGs people advise you to look past the picture. Or why you bring the pic close to your eyes (so close that you basically have no choice bu…
You can easily generate inverted ones that require crossing your eyes to appear properly, but they don't look as nice since they pop out instead of going into the screen/book.