/r/MagicEye

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A place for Magic Eye Illusions!

  • Quick tutorial on how these work

  • Vox 10 minute exposé:

  • "The secrets of Magic Eye"

  • 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.

  • Online Magic Eye Solver/Viewer

  • Offline Magic Eye Creator for Windoze (old)

  • 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:

  • Newer!

  • Older..


  • 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

    381,485 Subscribers

    395

    Butterfly!

    13 Comments
    2024/09/08
    16:47 UTC

    822

    Tilted Vision Required: A 3D Puzzle That's Not Your Average Leaning Tower

    70 Comments
    2024/09/08
    07:35 UTC

    215

    Cover art for the single "Fat Man" by Australian indie duo "Frank and Louis"

    19 Comments
    2024/09/06
    02:15 UTC

    510

    Ice Cave in Iceland

    27 Comments
    2024/09/01
    23:05 UTC

    313

    I can't believe it, but MagicEye also works with just text.

     Blue Skies  Blue Skies Blue Skies  Blue Skies  Blue Skies  Blue Skies  
    uds  /\  clouds  /\  clouds  /\  clouds /S\  clouds /S\ clouds e/S\ clou
    d  /(o)\ bird  /(o)\birdu  /(o)\birdu /(o)\ birdu /(o)\ birdu /(o)\ bird
     /Pyramid\   /Pyramid\   /Pyramid\  /Pyramid\i  /Pyramid\i  /Pyramid\i  
    \ Pharaon  A\ Pharaon  A\ Pharaon A\ Pharaon A\  Pharaon A\  Pharaon A\ 
    es\Magic0^Eyes\Magic0^Eyes\Magic^Eyes\Magic^Eyes\PMag^o^Eyes\PMag^o^Eyes
    King\M@/The King\M@/The King\M/The King\M/The King\aThe^e King\aThe^e Ki
    gypt /Of 0^Egypt /Of^h^Egypt/Of^h^Egypt/Of^h^EgyptOf^h^Eg gyptOf^h^Eg gy
    Go ld-$Op/x\Go ld-$/x\^\Gold-$/x\^\Gold/x\^\^\God/x\^\^\Godyd/x\^\^\Gody
    yrmidFG/-_\Pyrmid/-_\Pyromid/-_\Pyromi-_\Pyro\mi-_\Pyro\mi-_\/\Pyro\mi-_
    ro^@6A/\Cairo^@A/\Cairo^@Ai/\Cairo^@/\Cairo^@/\iCai^y^@/\iCai^yP^@/\iCai
    za/#-%/\Giza/#-%/\Giza/#-%/\Giza/#-/\Giza/#-/\Giz/#-/\@\Giz/#-/\@\Giz/#-
    PYRAMID)(PYRAMID)(PYRAMID)(PYRAMID)(PYRAMID)(PYAMID)(PYAiMID)(PYAiMID)(P
    _/`~-*\._/`~-*\._/`~-*\._/`~-*\._/`~-*\._/`~-*\._/`~-*\._/`~-*\._/`~-*\.
    3Dimka 3Dimka 3Dimka 3Dimka 3Dimka 3Dimka 3Dimka 3Dimka 3Dimka 3Dimka 3D

    Here's an image of the text. https://imgur.com/UZxEhcT

    41 Comments
    2024/08/30
    07:18 UTC

    5

    Can I Somehow Turn These Magic Pictures into How I See Them on Computer?

    My friend had strabismus as a kış and apparently he can't see double, it is impossible for him. I was talking about magic eye and he said he simply cant do it since surgery. Can I somehow compile these images I find online into the way I see them? İt wont be hologramic/3d obviously but I was just wondering how my friend can join us with the joy.

    5 Comments
    2024/08/29
    18:45 UTC

    17

    How to stop Magic Eyes from breaking?

    Sometimes I'll look at magic eyes, but it like, doesn't layer properly? Especially ones which are supposed create pop-out text, it'll split parts of up and make them closer than the rest of the text which makes it illegible. The magic eye effect is working, but it's all split up weird?

    21 Comments
    2024/08/28
    00:42 UTC

    1,249

    Best place to keep them

    61 Comments
    2024/08/24
    23:29 UTC

    1,081

    Desert dweller with satellite dish ears: Nature's cutest eavesdropper

    45 Comments
    2024/08/24
    15:07 UTC

    1,096

    Found this hanging in my old office...

    119 Comments
    2024/08/20
    13:36 UTC

    488

    Text Magic

    53 Comments
    2024/08/14
    19:33 UTC

    45

    How to make stereogram images in photoshop making your own patterns.

    In case you guys find it useful ☺️

    5 Comments
    2024/08/13
    01:48 UTC

    1,697

    Find the hidden message

    162 Comments
    2024/08/11
    21:07 UTC

    116

    Entire music video done as a magic eye; pretty darn good

    https://youtu.be/2AKtp3XHn38

    Young Rival - Black is Good

    10 Comments
    2024/08/11
    08:30 UTC

    572

    McDonell Douglas poster for ISS

    52 Comments
    2024/08/10
    04:53 UTC

    0

    The one I keep going back to cause I can’t get it

    42 Comments
    2024/08/08
    18:08 UTC

    796

    What's hidden in 3D in the starry night sky in Paris? (Hint: Summer Olympics) - Hidden image/object array stereogram

    30 Comments
    2024/08/08
    13:31 UTC

    94

    I can get to the point of seeing 3D but can't decipher what's happening

    It bothers me VERY MUCH that I can't see these cursed little things. I can unfocus, cross, do whatever with my eyes at will easily, but can't see anything. I can even get to the point where I see layers of the image stuck in 3D, but it's still just random shapes and colors overlaying each other. It looks like how in old movies, they would set up several painted glass panes to create an environment. But still, nothing is happening, even with the easy ones. MANG.

    Edit: I DID IT AGAIN AND IT KEEPS HAPPENING. I SEE GLITCHED OUT PANES AGAINST PANES BUT NO PICTURE, SHRIEK

    EDIT AGAIN: STILL CAN'T DO PARALLEL VIEW BUT I AM NOW REALLY GOOD AT SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

    EDIT AGAIN AGAIN: I'M SO CLOSE I CAN ALMOST TASTE IT

    EDIT AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN: I HAVE LEARNED. I AM BAD AT IT BUT I CAN NOW SWITCH BETWEEN THE TWO. I SHALL HONE THIS SKILL AND RETURN WHEN THE PLANETS ALIGN

    35 Comments
    2024/08/07
    22:01 UTC

    60

    Hi. I've been consuming a lot of Magic Eye content since I started "seeing" maybe two weeks back.

    Do you all have to put your phones/tablets close to your face and then move them away slowly to "see"? What are your alternative methods?

    26 Comments
    2024/08/06
    21:49 UTC

    717

    Thinking about it

    38 Comments
    2024/08/06
    16:03 UTC

    1,820

    Another moving one..

    68 Comments
    2024/08/04
    19:46 UTC

    1,941

    A nice moving image

    97 Comments
    2024/08/04
    07:26 UTC

    902

    Super Crisp! Found on Magic Eye's Facebook

    40 Comments
    2024/08/03
    01:17 UTC

    723

    One of my favourite images

    27 Comments
    2024/08/02
    05:51 UTC

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