/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!

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    The precious

    18 Comments
    2023/05/31
    20:38 UTC

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    Flower

    16 Comments
    2023/05/26
    23:45 UTC

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    What is this?

    https://preview.redd.it/od3n4lzsc82b1.jpg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=55a4d0a581f4259b66f04f4cc427d07b474af271

    I see a badly imaged dog or perhaps a dinosaur?

    This article https://thebrag.com/why-cant-some-people-see-magic-eye-pictures-an-investigation/ states that it is a horse. which i cannot get at all due to the tail, legs, mouth.

    What do you think?

    9 Comments
    2023/05/26
    14:48 UTC

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    How to create a video format magic eye (?)

    Hi! Complete magic eye novice here, hoping the community can help me figure this out.

    I was recently at an escape room and there was static playing on a TV screen. To the naked eye it was just static. However once we put on a pair of special glasses we were able to see a message on the screen. I think it involves polarized lenses.

    Would anyone on here know how to recreate this?

    Thanks in advance!

    4 Comments
    2023/05/25
    23:10 UTC

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    First try at making an autostereogram

    31 Comments
    2023/05/25
    19:26 UTC

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    Guess what day it is!

    55 Comments
    2023/05/24
    12:14 UTC

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    Under the Sea 🐠🐙 - Object array stereogram in 3D ocean view

    17 Comments
    2023/05/24
    09:55 UTC

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    Carpet

    26 Comments
    2023/05/23
    19:09 UTC

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    A simple labyrinth

    6 Comments
    2023/05/22
    20:33 UTC

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    I built a Python ascii stereogram generator!

    3 Comments
    2023/05/22
    03:56 UTC

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    Ancient guardian

    17 Comments
    2023/05/16
    21:10 UTC

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    Lord of the board

    9 Comments
    2023/05/14
    20:46 UTC

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    Harry Potter Magic Eye

    So I found this sub a few days ago and it led me to searching and there are so many different Magic Eye books you can look at on on archive.org 🥹

    10 Comments
    2023/05/14
    02:20 UTC

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    Little outta season... Just came across it elsewhere...

    19 Comments
    2023/05/12
    00:27 UTC

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    Don't get to close

    41 Comments
    2023/05/08
    14:12 UTC

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    Contemplating a snack

    41 Comments
    2023/05/08
    00:30 UTC

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    My grandmother bought me this poster in 1994.

    47 Comments
    2023/05/05
    23:00 UTC

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    Is...is it a sailboat?

    11 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:33 UTC

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    Vase and flower

    1 Comment
    2023/05/05
    22:32 UTC

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    Relax by the stream

    3 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:30 UTC

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    Largest volcano in the Solar System

    3 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:28 UTC

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    Hose Nose

    14 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:20 UTC

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    Kinect capture: Self portrait

    4 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:19 UTC

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    Just doodling in POV-Ray

    3 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:18 UTC

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    Meet Suzanne

    5 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:14 UTC

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    Dropped the ball a zillion times

    6 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:12 UTC

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    Frog-man thingy

    1 Comment
    2023/05/05
    22:08 UTC

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    Kinect capture: Cat sleeping above computer desk

    4 Comments
    2023/05/05
    22:05 UTC

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    Captured my brother with a Kinect

    10 Comments
    2023/05/05
    18:57 UTC

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    He doesn't need eyes to see you.

    Made this guy while doodling around in Blender one day, decided to make it into a stereogram.

    https://preview.redd.it/n4oi686a02ya1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=ec3aff9415c3103b00669d5c0f4dcc4db4da4a6b

    18 Comments
    2023/05/05
    18:12 UTC

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