Feel like people who are old enough to remember that 6 week period in the 90's where those Magic Eye 3d Stereogram pictures were everywhere have a big advantage here.
I've acquired a new superpower
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...except as you say, it didn't work. The "eye-cross" trick gave the answer on the impossible one in ~10 seconds.
The impossible one was quite tricky, but I did find I was able to relax into the image and take my time. Probably took about 10 seconds.
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I can't overlap the images to save my life - they get like halfway there and that's it...
There is a way to help yourself. Put the pair of images in front of your eyes. Bring your finger between your face and the image. Now look at your finger. Move your finger back and forth. While doing this, notice that at a particular distance, the images in background will perfectly overlap each other. That's your moment. Pull out your finger and look at that image. --- Should take lot less tries to learn doing it wi…
When I was six, some older kid showed me this trick, but I could never really cross my eyes. These days, I wear glasses, so I guess no new superpowers for me.
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#344I 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
No, a modification of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope
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#345At 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.
I can't overlap the images to save my life - they get like halfway there and that's it...
Here's another trick: open the image in a browser, then zoom out. The smaller the image (up to a point and you can find a sweet spot) the easier it is to get them to overlap. Once you've got it, slowly zoom in a bit at a time, re-acquiring the overlap at each stage.
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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.
I haven't seen one in several years, but they always used to run Red Hat, based on the boot screens.
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#347I cannot do this by crossing my eyes (focusing on a point between you and the image), I have a hard time getting the cross to stay consistent and it never really "locks in" for me. Instead of crossing my eyes, I unfocus them, effectively look through the image. Once I get the repeating part to overlap cleanly, after a second or two, my pupils adjust their focus and the image fades from blurry to clear in a really satisfying way and kind of "locks in" in a way that takes little to no effort to maintain. With a bit of practice, I can even move my eyes around and look at different parts of the two overlayed images without distrupting the effect at all.
I don't know if it's just my brain working differently or if a there is some confusion in the discussion between crossing your eyes and focusing through an item.
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#348At 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 ;)
Totally indulging in this side discussion: I remember thinking in high school and college that fame was the end-all of life, telling people that my goal was to have my own Wikipedia page. I saw it as something like the combination of being a "cool kid" (but for, you know, the whole of society instead of just one's school) and a sort of immortality.
Anyway, over the last couple of decades as an adult, besides realizing the obvious - how terribly shallow that is, and missing so much of what's really good in life - I've realized how fleeting fame seems to be even for the truly famous. Even looking over the list of US Presidents (never mind lesser political figures like VPs, cabinet members, congressmen, etc.) as someone who has always been interested in history, I look at some names and think, "who?" or "I've heard the name, but know nothing about him." I mean, of course you can still read about them, but that even a US President can be largely forgotten as a household name within 250 years is really a stunning thing to think about; they are ultimately no more immortal than someone who only has their name in a genealogy database or on a grave marker.
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#349Wife was not impressed. That hit home haha.
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#350I didn't spend the time reading the comments to see if this has been said already, but crossing your eyes works but learning to diverge your eyes is better in some situations. It's easier to learn to cross because you can just look at your nose, and you can bring together two images that are further away by crossing than by diverging. But diverging is the way we are normally (when looking across the room say instead of at a book in front of us) so it's more comfortable.