An alternative technique called “divergence” [1] (pulling your eyes apart) is significantly less straining on your eyes than crossing them (“convergence” [2]) while being equally as effective spotting differences, even on video. It’s also what your eyes naturally do when you watch stereoscopic 3D with tinted glasses—the stereoscopic images are pulled out (divergence) not pushed in (convergence/cross-eyed). I’ve been doing this since I childhood. If you get good at it, you can watch side-by-side 3D videos in 3D with just your naked eye (e.g. VR)! I believe there’s a reddit covering the more prurient variety of that.
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#212Claims have been made (outside the medical mainstream) that regularly practicing crossing your eyes helps stave off presbyopia. One does get better at seeing stereograms with practice, so it seems like it at least improves some type of muscle control.
uh dunno.
25y ago, i was working behind a 30" tube monitor (a ~35kg hog), with 1 inch thick frontglass.. and one day, one of my eyes started to focus on the (closer)outside of the glass, the other on the (farther)inside of the glass. Could not shake that with closing/blinking. Worse, later, when i got into the car, the closer eye focused on the windshield - instead on the landscape ahead.
Took 1 week of everyday 1-2 hours staring far away at the ocean, to revive. AND removal of the monitor :/
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#213“Impossible mode” was the easiest for me - took a few seconds. Probably due to the aspect ratio and the size of the images on my phone screen.
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#214This did not work for me. I was able to invoke a middle image, but there was no shimmering. After I found the difference the old-fashioned way, I realized that the middle image showed the distinguishing feature as it is on my non-dominant side.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't overlap the images to save my life - they get like halfway there and that's it...
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.
Is that the crossy-eye porn?
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#216At a local bar they had a game machine, and if you got a high score on any of the games, your tab for the evening was free. One of the games was a "spot the differences" between two pictures with an ever decreasing timer for each round. Using this trick I was able to easily surpass the high score, and garner a crowd watching me perform this mind numbing feat. Probably my peak fame right there.
This is my peak fame as well. I had the high score on every one of these I've played using this method. My friends were always try to figure out how we could make money doing it...
The game is usually called 'Photo Hunt'
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#217It's a sailboat!
Hah, Kevin Smith caught some flak for that one:
" Someone called out Kevin Smith for this on one of his podcasts. According to Smith, on the day of filming, he asked if the picture really was a sailboat, and the prop master said no. When Smith started questioning this, the prop master said that a) it flashes on the screen too quickly for anyone in the theatre to notice, and b) VHS was too low-resolution for people to freeze-frame it to try it at home. So Smith let it slide.
Smith summed up, "Now, thanks to Blu-Ray, I get people pointing this out to me all the time!" "
https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/9lf52b/in_the...
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#218At a local bar they had a game machine, and if you got a high score on any of the games, your tab for the evening was free. One of the games was a "spot the differences" between two pictures with an ever decreasing timer for each round. Using this trick I was able to easily surpass the high score, and garner a crowd watching me perform this mind numbing feat. Probably my peak fame right there.
This is my peak fame as well. I had the high score on every one of these I've played using this method. My friends were always try to figure out how we could make money doing it... The game is usually called 'Photo Hunt'
Those Megatouch systems run Linux! Lots of fun messages to read on the credits screen or when you reboot them.
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#219At a local bar they had a game machine, and if you got a high score on any of the games, your tab for the evening was free. One of the games was a "spot the differences" between two pictures with an ever decreasing timer for each round. Using this trick I was able to easily surpass the high score, and garner a crowd watching me perform this mind numbing feat. Probably my peak fame right there.
>Probably my peak fame right there. My son and I always make jokes about everyone's 5 minutes of fame. Some random person on the jumbotron at a sporting event "Yup, there's his moment, it's over now." At least yours got you something ;)
One of my dad's sayings when somebody in a film delivered a line and then disappeared was "6 months rehearsal for that."
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a kid, I got a Magic Eye book and learned to see it by crossing my eyes (ie, focusing in front of the screen). I thought it was pretty interesting when I realized that I was seeing all the images inverted ("peaks" were "valleys" and vice versa) due to the way I was focusing. Alas, I never was able to see the images "correctly".
It's funny because even if you do the Magic Eye pictures "correctly" (focusing past them) you can still get funky images by going too far and locking the surrounding pattern a second time. If I remember right the first time I did this was on a heart picture (similar to [0]), which ends up looking like a big puffy W stacked on top of a slightly larger puffy W :D [0] https://i0.wp.com/www.magiceye.com/wp-content/upload…
Thanks that's one of the beautifully crafted magic eye images, bring me back memories about 20 years ago when it was a craze.