I can produce the third image by crossing my eyes, but one eye dominates and all I see is a cat with three stripes on its head. :(
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#222I have been doing this forever, if you get the high score over a certain threshold you can get a free game (400,000?)
I would usually get accused of memorizing all the pictures.
You will get bored or a headache before you stop getting free games using this technique.
You can get stifled by the older machines with faded CRT screens. The newer LCD (that's how old these games are...) are usually better to play on.
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#223An 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…
This is what I do, the only issue is that I don't have nearly as much "range" with divergence as I do with convergence, so I have to make the pictures as small as possible when using it to line up two images (as opposed to autostereograms, which usually have a much smaller divergence offset).
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#224Claims 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.
Okay, but my eyes hurt now.
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#225The superpower being writing clickbait titles for trivial posts
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the key is not "going cross-eyed" as much as it is relaxing your focus until the images merge. If you intentionally cross your eyes, it hurts. If you de-focus/relax your eyes until the images merge, it doesn't hurt.
Relaxing focus for me doesn't cause merging or cross-eyed effects, it causes my vision to go too blurry to do anything lol
i had the same thing where best i could get when i relaxed was a narrow merge, and when i crossed my focus was too close to my face to be helpful, plus strain.
sudden clicked after fully crossing 5 or 6 times and then relaxing and was able to hold the "3rd image" very easily. felt like magic, even hardest difficulty was obvious
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#227Image worked but when I tried with text it did not work. Is there some trick to it?
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#228Woah that is amazing how quickly I was able to apply this.
So cool!
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#229Weird timing. I dunno why this works but I've been using it to see mice. You see, I noticed that I have a mouse problem in my garage. I figure if I've seen one mouse, there are probably more. So, I stood on some stairs in my garage and crossed my eyes to sort of blur the scene. It allowed me to catch movement more quickly and I was quickly watching multiple mice run around the edges of the area.
Hmm. I noticed in lectures, if I stilled my eyes, most of the field of view would grey out, except for areas of motion (eg a lecturer's head or writing arm) which appeared normal. After motion stopped in an area, it would slowly grey out. When a motion started, its area would snap to normal, making it easy to spot onsets of motion. Eventually my eyes would twitch, and the whole field would refresh.
I've done this in the past with bugs in the grass. If I stare at a fixed point, I start seeing each individual bug moving through the grass, whereas normally they would be really hard to spot among all the fine details of the ground and grass blades.
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#230I was hoping to get a new superpower today, but when I was young I was cross eyed. I got this corrected through surgery and can no longer cross my eyes.