Were you able to see the image in any of the pictures below?
Is this just a weird ink-blot test or am I really going blind 🤔
'I don't see anything'-bump 😿
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If you are not use to doing them it may take a few minutes to see the image. After you do a couple, they come become easier. If you look at a lot of them you can get to the point where you can open a bunch in different tabs and then just flip through the tabs and instantly see each picture.
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Did you give up too soon? If you are not use to looking at them it may take a few minutes to get it into focus, but they get easier as you learn how to do them. The second picture (green) is the easiest. You can kind of see what the picture is without focusing, so you know what to look for.
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I never had any idea how to get those to work and I still don't, but thanks for reminding me of Gone Home :)
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I played Gone Home a few months ago and that is the reason why I started looking these up again. I remember looking at them as a kid in the 90s, but forgot all about them.
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Used to be very good at these, but my eyes don't focus as well as they used to anymore.
Still, even in the small size, was able to get all of these without too much trouble.
(Tip for people new to this: focus on something behind your monitor, don't cross your eyes like most people do -- focusing behind will give the proper 3D pop-out effect, crossing your eyes will make the image concave instead and often more difficult to see.)
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Whether you can see them on this page is going to depend on the size of your screen, a big 32" desktop will be easy, but a smartphone will probably be impossible.
Edit: Nevermind, if you are on a smartphone you can just zoom the page to make the image fullscreen. I just did them all on my little Iphone 4s. It is still a lot harder to get them into focus on a small smartphone screen though.
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I just added a music video to the original post :)
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Nope, i see nothing. But it's around midnight and i am also tired as hell. I will give it another try in the morning.
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I've never once in my life been able to see the hidden image on these things. I wear glasses, maybe that has something to do with it... Thankfully, I already own the game. :)
Thanks!
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If you need glasses to see up close, then you should wear them, it will work with glasses on.
Edit: I think it just has to do with focusing each eye on a different spot in the image instead of the same spot like your eyes would naturally try to do.
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Oh wow, I actually am able to see the music video! The dots training thing at the beginning helped. I paused it on there until I got to a comfortable spot. Going back to the pictures, though, I got nothin'. :P
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I like to move my head fairly close to the picture and then lose focus. Try and not focus on any individual part or feature of the image, but just let it blur a little. Then as I slowly move my head back away from the picture while not trying to focus, it will just come into focus at a certain point. Sometimes I will need to move my head closer and farther away a few time to get it to "pop" into view.
That is how I learned in the 90s when these were popular on postcards.
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i couldn't do these for 30 years but maybe two years ago i tried really hard and found it to be both really easy and really cool. once you get it working it's pretty awesome. it was a matter of minutes.
thinking about it i still got room on some walls. a big framed picture with something like this would be totally awesome. obviously you'd need a real copy shop fancy print and not something pissed out by your inkjet printer at home.
bloody brilliant. why you dead bro? :(
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Is that a 3D picture? I know there are some where they show 2 or 3 things similar images and you are supposed to be able to make them overlap and see it in 3D, but I have a hard time getting them to work.
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it is. or a stereogram. whatever you want to call it.
they all work the same way so i don't see why you should have trouble with different ones. ;)
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I have always had trouble with those. Maybe it has to do with being able to clearly see the image so my eyes want to focus on something and have a hard time focusing each eye on a separate part of the image. The ones that are just a mess of colors make it easy to unfocus my eyes.
I think I have also seen the same thing done with 2 images instead of 3, If you get good at combing 2 images into 3D, then you should be able to watch some VR gameplay footage in 3D without having a VR device. I tried getting this work a few months ago and it worked a little, but I couldn't keep it in focus or get it that clear.
I think this was one of the ones I tried.
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the music video is pretty nice, i didn't know you could actually do that.
but stuff like that is really hard on the eyes and the head. or so tells me my slight headache. xD
the VR video doesn't work at all for me because both parts are too far apart to overlap.
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Yeah, it can definitely make your eyes tired. I haven't tried doing the VR video in a long time and could never get it to work correctly, but I think the best way is to either use a smartphone because it is smaller (just like the cheap VR headsets) or move far back from your monitor.
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I just added a music video to the original post :)
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lol, i was never able to see anything in that kind of image.
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HOW TO!
since a lot of folks (including that redhead) are having a hard time with this great stuff i will sacrifice some time and try to explain.
whenever i had people rubbing these pictures in my face i had no clue what the heck they wanted me to do. since i am a simple man with simple needs and simple thoughts i will try to explain in simple words.
the third picture from above is fairly easy and i will use that as example. make a new tab, get the picture to original size and we are ready to go. you need one point to orientate yourself. an anchor in the picture if you want. that screaming big red thing (mouth) will do. keep your face maybe half an arm length away from the screen.
don't think of your screen as a flat plane in front of you. it's more like a window you want to look through. or stare, that's more like it.
look at the picture, stare through it and pretend to focus your eyes on something in the distance way behind the picture. if you stare hard enough you will notice that the picture separates into two different pictures as your eyes are focused so far away they send two different pictures to your brain. try to get the right amount of staring to make one of the red dots in the middle overlap with its closest neighbor. left or right doesn't matter but they must overlap perfectly. keep up the staring and keep the two red dots overlapped. it may take some time, especially when you try for the first time. but eventually your perception of the image will change and so does the picture. don't get all excited now and lose focus! first you have to realize what you are looking at. as soon as the picture is clear you can move around freely. it's pretty fancy to get that feeling of depth with a flat surface.
however it takes practice to make your eyes stare at nothing on command and make that image flip when focused doesn't always work first try. just relax and give it a go.
i think that picture is an easy start. don't give up after one try. it may take a while. hold still, stare, overlap, stay focused and...enjoy!
i hope that helped and if it didn't you didn't try hard enough! ;P
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Thanks for the explanation :)
I added some pictures so you may want to change your post to say the third picture instead of "middle".
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You do it in divergence.
But for some people (like me) it is simpler to do it in convergence. You must take a point closer than the image to look at it while observing the image in the background and then slowly move the point to fix back and forth until seeing the relief.
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i love these things I used to have so much fun with them as a kid. Thanks for the reminder that they still exist. I've still got it!
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It works for me on paper, but apparently not when it's on the monitor. I guess my eyes don't like when I force them to stare at something BRIGHT for too long without blinking >.<"
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Yeah, I'm sure it's not good to stare at a close monitor for a long period, I'm still using a CRT :)
You can blink, some people even say that blinking can help see the image. If you get stuck focusing on a certain thing in the picture you won't be able to see the 3D image, so blinking could help remove your focus from whatever you are staring at.
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My colleagues start to ask me why my face is twisted and my eyeball is out of control. I hate you.
I think I will pass this one.
Bump to create more office zombies.
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I forgot to add a legal disclaimer about eye damage from staring at your screen for long periods of time.
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I guess it´s hard to get it working with such low resolution images where the striking border is bound to throw off your periphery vision in some way, that describes what i felt :E
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I thought it would be fun to make a stereogram puzzle. Don't hate me if you can't do it. The giveaway is nothing special, just a copy of Chroma Squad. The giveaway ends about 3 days and 6 hours from the date this thread was created.
If you don't know what a stereogram is, it's basically a 3D picture that you can see by looking at it while unfocusing your eyes. Your eyes will go slightly out of alignment with eachother and instead align individually on different parts of the picture to see the image (at least that is how I think it works). You can adjust the size of the image by zooming with your browser, you can see it at almost any size, but it may be a little easier for your eyes at a certain size.
How I learned in the 90s and the way I like to do it is to: Bring your head fairly close to the picture and then lose focus. Try and not focus on any individual part or feature of the image, but just let it blur a little. Then slowly move your head back away from the picture while not trying to focus and it will just come into focus at a certain point. Sometimes I will need to move my head closer and farther away a few time to get it to "pop" into view.
You may want to open the pictures in a new window, they will probably be too small to see here. The first two pictures are different versions of the same SG code for the giveaway. The others are just pictures with no giveaways.
Hint: The 4th letter is q
Edit: Here's a cool stereogram music video :)
Added a second picture of the same giveaway code. The different colors and type of image may make one easier than the other for different people, especially if you are partially color blind like a lot of people are but don't know. Multiple people have reported that the second picture is easier.
Added some moving images.
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