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The above stereographic image is for cross-eyed viewing (most stereograms are wall-eyed, so you may need to put your finger in front of your screen until this one comes into focus)
This is an image of Honolulu, Hawaii, published by NASA. Note Diamond Head (the volcanic crater) in the south.
Here are some other stereopairs published by JPL:
Wheeler Ridge, California
Mount Saint Helens
Salt Lake Valley, Utah
Wellington, New Zealand
Well, its the first time that i manage to see one of these magic eye images.... but I need to ask. Most of this seem to be inverted (i see mountains as sinks, lakes and rivers are higher than peaks). Is this intended? I'm interpretint it wrong?
These ones require crossing your eyes, whereas the other type you relax them (like looking further away).
I find the other type way easier and struggle with cross eye ones. For these images you could swap the left and right portions to get it working the other way.
Actually, I made a version for wall-eyed viewing in one of the other top-level comments.
Yes, I saw them afterwards. Nice work! I can do the cross eyed ones with some effort but the wall eyed ones (I didn't know the name before) I could see instantly and with far better focus.
About 21 years ago (😩) I made a stereoscopic photo for some online contest. I was pretty proud of it.
Edit: please ignore the fact that the light doesn’t match between the shots!
Ooh, nice depth!
Thanks! It was a pain to set up the little screen trick but for what it’s worth, I won the contest!
Why do all of these look inverted to me? Like, what should be a mountain is a deep hole in the ground.
These are cross-view, your probably using the focus at infinity trick instead.
Wow, I had the same problem as the one you replied to and I thought you were making a joke I didn't get but I stand corrected. You were absolutely 100% right.
Turns out I was focusing at infinity, didn't even realize it was a different thing than crossing my eyes until I tried to cross my eyes first before focusing on the pictures...
Very cool, thanks.
Since some people are apparently rather salty about these being cross-eyed, despite the fact that that's just how NASA made them, here, special for y'all, a selection:
Haha sick, so cool. This is so much cooler than the old school stereograms with like a silhouet hiding in an image. How did you make these?
Idk why I can't do the cross-eyed, still wanna see if I can get that working as well
These images were created by NASA, though you can make your own by taking two pictures about 4-5 inches apart. Try going to the Parallel View community to see more.
Also, if you know what JMOL is (a molecule viewer), you can make it show you things in stereo by right-clicking, then clicking, iirc, "scheme"-->"stereographic" or "3D"-->"wall-eyed"
Thank you so much! This is so much easier for me.
I wasn't going to complain or anything, but this post made me realize that I'm actually incapable of viewing cross-eyed. It actually hurt my eye sockets to try.
I also personally prefer wall-eyed viewing, but these just happened to be cross-eyed originally, so I was surprised by the complaints.
Boo, these are cross-view, not parallel-view.
I can still view these, but it’s much much harder for me.
I don’t know why parallel isn’t the default.
It varies per person. I for one can't view wall-eyed, only cross-eyed.
Lots of people can really easily go cross-eyed and look at these with no practice whatsoever. Fewer people can do the parallel kind with no practice or with the amount of practice they've already done.
I grew up with the Magic Eye books and have never been able to do cross-view as a result.
Not sure why but those NEVER work for me lol
Not this, not magic eye books, absolutely nothing works.
Tried for many hours back in the day
I can only do parallel-view, not crosseyed, those look so surreal that way (inverted height/depth basically)
Is that why I'm seeing things that way? Don't understand the difference really, but is really odd to see Mt St Helens as a sinkhole instead.
I tried so long I tried every method, never worked for me. Then eventually I found an image that made it work for me
https://i.redd.it/25c330mmohu51.jpg
(Sorry for the Reddit link). How I do it: put your phone screen right before your nose and unfocus your eyes. Then, don't move your eyes, don't move your focus, but slowly move the phone away from your face. At about 10-20cm distance, you should be able to see a squirrel with a nut in its hands.
After that it became very easy to do other pictures simply by knowing what to expect (an actual 3d image).
That being said the one above is really hard.
How to make people on the internet staring at their phones like this:
Worked well for me. Cool stuff!
In feudal Japon, 19th century, a photographer made a lot of photos from the people in 3D to use in a viewer, hand colored.
(Converted to gif, to see the 3D effect without eye acrobatics)
For some reason I'm getting the depth inverted. Mt. Saint Helens looks like a hole in the ground.
You're doing "wall eyed" viewing. These are for "cross-eyed" viewing. "Wall-eyed" means your eyes are focusing at a point behind the image. You need to cross your eyes for these. Try putting your finger in between your screen and your eyes, varying the distance until the dots merge. Then, remove your finger, focusing on the image itself. That should allow for cross-eyed viewing.
That's so weird, I always thought I was crossing my eyes when doing this...
These are all backwards. The eyes are reversed so everything that's supposed to be a hole looks like a bump and vice-versa.
EDIT : TIL about cross v wall eyed. I dont understand why they would do it this way though ? The image is much less stable, and moving it at all completely breaks the effect. Wall-eyed really allows you to move and observe details without breaking.
You're doing "wall eyed" viewing. These are for "cross-eyed" viewing. "Wall-eyed" means your eyes are focusing at a point behind the image. You need to cross your eyes for these. Try putting your finger in between your screen and your eyes, varying the distance until the dots merge. Then, remove your finger, focusing on the image itself. That should allow for cross-eyed viewing.
I love these so much thanks! On YouTube there's also a ton in video format, like this one by Brian May.
It's a schooner!
Really can’t seem to understand how this works.
Never did any “magic eyes” or whatever books as a kid, so maybe I just don’t have any practice in this, but whether I try to cross my eyes focusing beyond the screen, or “above” the screen, I can’t get the resulting middle image to look like anything other than a blur.
Perhaps my eyes are somehow odd on the other hand. I don’t need glasses though, so I’m a bit skeptical that’s it.
I tried all the guides I found in this thread, including the floating hot dogs, attempting varying distances both with the screen and the finger, then trying the wall-eyed variants too for all of them, none of them work for me.
So odd. It seems it should work. No idea what I am doing wrong here.
Or is this the joke? To get people to squint for minutes on end on their screen?
I promise this isn't a troll. In your case, it may be that your eyes are having difficulty focusing on nonexistent objects. If they're blurry, it's not that your eyes aren't crossing, but rather that they are out-of-focus. Eyes naturally focus the lenses to bring near or distant objects into clarity, but when I was first doing magic eye images a long time ago, it also took me a while to convince my eyes that they needed to focus on the images.
My guess is that, since the actual images are on the screen at distance A, but your eyes are crossing as if they're looking at distance B, your eyes are auto-focusing for objects at B, but the images are still actually at A, so they appear out-of-focus.
Isn't magic eye something different? I thout it was !autostereograms@lemmy.world instead of cross view images.
I miss r/crossview and the short love r/crossviewnsfw. Damn greed ruining everything good in the world.
