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I've acquired a new superpower

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Re: I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by adriand »

thayne wrote: post #259
smusamashah wrote: post #242

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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…

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.

I was having this problem as well, but I kept trying, and then I got it. I found the finger trick was useful to initially sort of calibrate the focal distance but overall didn't really help me that much.

Here is what worked for me. I used my laptop, zoomed in a bit on the images and brought the screen fairly close to my face. I ensured that the image was crisp using each eye (I also have astigmatism, and I probably also need reading glasses, but there is a sweet spot where both eyes have good focus, and I ensured I was there.) While crossing my eyes a bit, I start to see a third image in the center of the two images, but it's either out of focus (like two overlapping images), or it's very thin, like it's not the full image. I relax and keep my attention on this imperfect image and try to focus on it without trying too hard. Using this approach the image suddenly comes into focus and I no longer have to try to keep it there.

I feel like the key might be to notice the very beginning of the desired image in the center and then to try and focus on it, but in a bit of a relaxed way.

Incidentally when it works it is extremely weird! The other images essentially disappear and it's like you've travelled to another dimension.

Re: I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by 8bitbeep »

warner25 wrote: post #348
duxup wrote: post #125

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>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 realizin…

It’s a know phenomenon. A friend of mine had a reasonably important public office position. Always on the phone, constantly demanded, giving interviews, etc. The first few months after a change in administration were a great relief. A year after being let go and he was devastated. No one called, knew or cared who he was. There’s probably a name for this syndrome.

Re: I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by im3w1l »

jvm___ wrote: post #272
klondike_klive wrote: post #219

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One of my dad's sayings when somebody in a film delivered a line and then disappeared was "6 months rehearsal for that."

I envision happy families watching the end credits for Dad's name as Third Assistant Caterer on a big budget film.

Thank you for putting that image in my mind, it brought a smile to my face.

Re: I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by nomilk »

Amazing! Tiny bit of feedback, it might help to add to the article that there's 1 difference to spot in impossible mode (the other two difficulties say there's 3 and 8 diffs respectively, which is useful to know when attempting).

Re: I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by linsomniac »

jvm___ wrote: post #272
klondike_klive wrote: post #219

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One of my dad's sayings when somebody in a film delivered a line and then disappeared was "6 months rehearsal for that."

I envision happy families watching the end credits for Dad's name as Third Assistant Caterer on a big budget film.

I now always stay around in the movie theater to see who the sysadmins were that worked on the film, for solidarity reasons. :-) Pretty much all the movies these days have them, which I would have never imagined would be the case back in the '80s when I started this career path.

Re: I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by linsomniac »

AzzieElbab wrote: post #343
smusamashah wrote: post #242

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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.

Does it not work with glasses?

Re: I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by econ »

Open the image in the Gimp. Duplicate layer adjust opacity then drag it sideways until they line up. Toggle layer visibility.....

Wait, why isn't there a service for this? Or is there?

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