/r/MagicEye
A place for Magic Eye Illusions!
Handy image to tell if you are viewing Cross View or Parallel View.
Be advised, Parallel view Magic Eye images are the most popular here. For Crossview content, check out /r/CrossView. or /r/MagicEye_CrossView.
Versions of "Sistem", Offline Magic Eye Creators made by u/Pixelfest:
GUI for Windows
Commandline Only for Win, Mac, Linux, and whatever else can run the .net runtime libraries.
Text-only Autostereogram Creator:
Magic Eye images, more generically known as stereograms, became a wild hit in the 1990's. A stereogram might be described as an image within an image, where the second image requires the eyes to focus behind the image as opposed to on it.
While technique differs, many seem to agree that some combination of crossing your eyes (not entirely though, remember you're trying to look past the image, not at a point between the image and you), letting your eyes go unfocused, and getting your nose all up in the image's business assists in determining what the hidden image is. Once you do find the hidden image, don't get too excited and try to focus on it, or you'll likely lose it and have to start over!
Submit some of your favorites or even make your own!
Also, check out our friends at /r/CrossView, /r/ParallelView, and /r/MagicEye_CrossView!
/r/MagicEye
Edit: I forgot that all the patterns repeat. So crossing your eyes and connecting the doubled pattern with each pattern will eventually lead to figuring out which one is correct
Anyone ever see any?
Has anyone tried using Midjourney or other image AI to make a working MagicEye? I'm not a subscriber.
When I was much younger, probably in the early to mid 90's, I was at the supermarket and there was someone selling Magic Eye pictures in front of the supermarket. In normal vision it had a mostly red jumble and a fireball falling downwards towards a corner. When I relaxed my vision a great big fearsome dragon appeared from the magic eye jumble and the fireball was being launched from its mouth. I barely got a good look at it before my family dragged me away for whatever reason and I never saw that art again. Has anyone seen it before? - I would love to see it again.
I’m new to this, and was just wondering how detailed the images are supposed to be?
I can’t tell whether I’m crossing my eyes or splitting em. Every time I do it, both cross eyed images and magic eyes snap pretty fast, but I sometimes feel like I’m doing the other. How can you tell which one it is?
I’m looking for a fast and easy way to generate depth maps so I can make some of these stereograms but all the ones I find are weird and have endless paragraphs of what to do. Looking for one that’s simple and easy
I was able to all these things fine yesterday, but now everything is blurred. Like, I can see the shape of whatever the image is, but I can’t focus on it without it disappearing. I don’t know what changed. How do I make it so that I can actually look at the image?