Scorpion Magic Eye, can you do it?

[Feelers]

Well I was messing around with this, I'm not particularly happy with the repeating background (there is supposed to be a scorpion in the pattern), but I'll fix that and colour it up a bit more another time.

I saw the thread on scorpion art so it got me thinking. :}

Out of interest how many people can and can't do these things? :wall:

 

[rochi69]

i can see the scorpion but not too detailed

 

[Feelers]

Do you mean the 3d one or the pattern?

 

[Feelers]

 

[Aztek]

If you can do the crosss eye thing, these things are easy.

I used to have a book and I just crossed my eyes and the picture popped out.

I discovered it on the toilet looking at some tiles, then I crossed my eyes and the pattern poped out.

 

[Cyris69]

Yeah, these sort of things are way too easy as Aztek stated. However, cool none the less

 

[Galapoheros]

You can cross your eyes and see the image but I think it is expected that you do the opposite to see the hidden image. I just noticed that if you cross your eyes the larger scorp image is seen as a deep imprint. If you widen the angle of the line of sight of each eye by trying to stare at something distant (maybe a few inches past your monitor with this mosaic), it's much more relaxing to your eyes and the large scorp image is raised instead of sunken in. For someone not seeing it yet, here's what's going on. You're taking smaller images in the whole mosaic looking thing and converging them together. The reason we see stereo is because we triangulate when we see, just like surveyors do when they are figuring out distances with numbers and their equipment. You need at least 3 points to triangulate. The 3 points we use to see stereo are one eye, the other eye and the thing we are looking at, that's how we can mentally judge the distance of objects we look at. In a way, we use trig everyday. If the scorp sits high, you are not crossing your eyes, it feels like you are crossing them but you are actually letting your pupils drift apart instead of crossing them. If the scorp is sunken in, you are crossing your eyes. Kind of hard to explain but easy to do once you've done it. I just discovered that if you want to do it the cross-eyed way, which is a little harder for me, you can bring your eyes "about" 12" from the monitor and then look at a finger "about" 6" in front of the monitor. Keep looking at your finger but try to focus on looking at the mosaic too, once you see it, you can lock in on it. It gets easy fast once you've done it, it's just that we are not programmed to look through or in front of an object so it can be hard to do at first.

 

[arachyd]

I can see them fairly well. I love those things!

 

[Crazy0monkey]

I can always see the pattern pop out, i Just never know what the patern is

 

[Mr. Mordax]

I can see them both, but I can't tell what the second one is. For me, they always appear like a sunken-in image. Probably because I cross instead of diverge*.

These used to be almost impossible for me because I have astigmatism in one eye -- till I realized I'm supposed to leave my glasses ON for it to work. :wall:

*Edit: That reminds me, I saw a special pair of goggles somewhere that switched the view that each eye sees, so convex objects appear concave and vice-versa. Seemed weird and fun.

 

[Galapoheros]

Those electronic stereo goggles? I had to wear those things everyday at work for years. It was fun and weird ...for about a week, then it sucked after that:wall:, haha. If anybody wants to mess with it more, you can take a pic of something, move the camera two or three inches to the right or left and take a pic of the same thing. Make the pics thumbnail size and put them right next to each other on you monitor. You can converge them with your eyes and see the pic in stereo. Takes some practice.

 

[Feelers]

Oh the second one is the Brotherhood of Nod logo, with the scorpion tail coming out of the picture.

Iheartmantids, here it is again, but so you can see it "correctly" when crosseyed.

I cant get them crosseyed, I seem to loose detail.

 

[Mr. Mordax]

Ah ha! That explains why I thought I saw part of a scorpion, but not the whole tihng.

And now it's coming out at me instead of sinking in.

 

[LordofScorpions]

I can't see it its just a bunch of colours to me, thats it.

 

[arachyd]

Ahhhh, Tiberian Sun. One of my favorite oldies......

 

[Xaranx]

I never see these either, maybe because my right eye is a bit lazy. Doesn't wander or anything but my vision in that eye and depth perception overall is a bit skewed.

 

[Feelers]

From what I have read, nearly everyone should be able to do these. If you have depth perception, and the ability to focus you have all that you need. I couldn't understand these for ages either, I didn't understand what people were talking about, but one day it just clicked. These things are really impressive when you get them, it's strange seeing a 3d object floating in front of the page.

Most are not designed to be done crosseyed, but that is probably the best way to get started.
In the picture below, go crosseyed (close to the screen) so that the white dots at the top of the picture overlap to form one dot in the middle. Then slowing move back from the picture trying to keep it all in focus. The picture of the mountains will be in 3d, but it will be hard to focus at first.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ye_Landslide,_Kamchatka_Peninsula,_Russia.jpg

Wikipedia has info on viewing techniques towards the bottom... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram

 

[Feelers]

Oh if anyone has a 3d design program and has designed or can designed some sort of 3d scorpion it's quite easy to make one of these magic eyes out of it. :3:

 

[Galapoheros]

Wow that was a lot of reading, a lot of info. I was going to make a 3D image and post it but it's looking like I've lost my camera It's not looking good so far, it may be gone.

 

[Galapoheros]

Woooeeee, I found my camera. Here's one I threw together, didn't take long. According to the links, this one is intended to be viewed using the wall-eyed method. If you cross your eyes, the scorp will be seen sunken in the sand. If I reversed the images, it would have worked using the cross-eyed method. Seems to be easier to see a couple of feet away from your monitor, just two pics taken at diff angles. Anybody see the 3D scorp? You have to converge the white dots like the in the Wiki example.