that's why they mirror one of the images in "find the differences" in puzzle competitions, e.g. USPC https://wpc.puzzles.com/uspc2024/
reminds me of convolution operation.
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#402Fascinating!
I was able to grab focus for the first image. Found it hard for the second and third image. I focused on the first one and then scrolled down to the second and third - that made it easier for me.
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#403I have strabismus and have always been good at these games. I wonder if it helps me for similar reasons? The examples on his page were pretty easy for me, though the universe one took maybe 45 seconds.
Funny. I also have strabismus and I've never, ever been able to see those hidden picture games or these things even once.
I never developed stereoscopic depth perception, which I assume is related.
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#404Great read. Not sure it was worth being stuck cross-eyed for the evening, though.
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#406Would AI not be able to crush this game?
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#407using the same trick, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBa-bCxsZDk
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#408Would AI not be able to crush this game?
`memcmp` would be able to crush this game, but the fun is in doing it as a human!
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#409Would AI not be able to crush this game?
15 lines of Python would be able to crush this game. But that's not the point.
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#410Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried, this, and I can get it to overlap in the background, but as soon as I take my finger away, I lose it.
You may have a very slightly 'lazy eye' (I do) - it can be a lot less extreme (not at all noticeable to others) than the pointing-completely-different-directions that people imagine, and iirc is highly correlated with astigmatism. Optician used to tell me to work the muscle by following my finger to my nose, trying to maintain a single image. At a certain point it will snap into two - the 'lazy' eye has given up and…
Same, and I had no idea it was correlated with astigmatism! That does explain my prescription