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The Natural Way
09:12 / 16.07.02
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~uniaaa/MagicEye/MagicEyeAnim.html

I've never viddied an animated one before. The stone drop's very nice.

My workchum, who shall go nameless, is nearly crying 'cause she can't see them. To that I say: Yahboo sucks!

Seriously, though, is it impossible for some people (like the bendy tongue thing)?

And has anyone got the address of a real good site?
 
 
The Natural Way
09:28 / 16.07.02
Just gonna bump this up 'cause I'm bored and want nice link from kind 'lither now.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:56 / 16.07.02
And again.
 
 
Bear
10:05 / 16.07.02
Settle down

Yeah they're pretty cool, never seen animated either, the wave one works well.

Not sure of any other sites about them though, I think it is impossible for some people to see them, my mum couldn't - maybe she's a lizard?
 
 
The Natural Way
10:11 / 16.07.02
Can't settle down - desperate to find out whether or not my mate'll be able to see them, if she just perseveres. Otherwise she's going to top herself. Seriously.

"I think it's impossible for some people" just won't do, I'm afraid. Where are all the science 'lithers when you need them! Arrgh!
 
 
that
10:14 / 16.07.02
They're some sort of mass hallucination brought on by the belief that there is something there... it's the only reasonable explanation, seeing as *I* can't see anything.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:18 / 16.07.02
I can't see them, either. I console myself with the thought that I'm not missing anything of any great importance.
 
 
that
10:18 / 16.07.02
Having said that, the animated ones look vaguely like waves and ripples, which is what I presume they're supposed to... but the static ones in the books and such - naaaah, you lot are just too credulous for words. Dots and colours is all they are, I tells ya...
 
 
The Natural Way
10:32 / 16.07.02
I remember the first time I came across one; I must of been about 17 and it came free w/ the NME - some promotional bumpf for 'The Orb'. I stared at the thing for hours, I really thought it was a put on....and then.....the band's logo appeared. Twas vaguely crap, but exciting at the time.

I've just spent the morning trying to convince the aforementioned incredulous workchum that THEY DO WORK, and, while I know chol's just parodying the "I can't see it, it doesn't work!" attitude, it still frustrates, 'cause I'm sure you CAN see it. Go on, give yrself a headache.
 
 
Bear
10:37 / 16.07.02
Just go a tiny bit cross eyed and they will appear - honest.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
11:10 / 16.07.02
Tried it. Going cross-eyed, staring into the middle distance, staring at a point beyond the picture, looink at it through a pane of glass...

Can't do it.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
11:25 / 16.07.02
I don't think those animated fellas are yer true magic eye pictures, anyhoo.
 
 
The Natural Way
13:21 / 16.07.02
Aaah, but how would you know?

I can do magic eye pics veeeery fast and yr wrong and you don't possess runcevision. Naah, they do the magic thing.....what're you talking about?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
14:01 / 16.07.02
Just that the movement of the dots is organised in a way that yr brain interprets as waves or ripples. I thought magic eye things were completely different images hidden within visual white noise. I can't see that anything's actually hidden here. I mean, you could animate any two dimensional image to make it look like a wave.
 
 
The Natural Way
14:09 / 16.07.02
Yeah, they do look like a wave or ripple anyway, but, if you get yr specialvision on, they take on the depth and 3d goodness of a magic eye pic. It's the same effect, but in motion.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:19 / 16.07.02
They are invisible to some folks for various reasons, usually to do with problems focussing. For example, in the case of my Dad it's because he has nystagmus (sp?) which means his eyeballs wobble at high speed and he can't focus properly.

I can see them but they always appear inside-out to me. Haven't worked out quite why, tho'.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
18:08 / 16.07.02
Do the hidden images appear as black & white when the noise over the top is in colour? If so, maybe it's a colour blindness thing.

It sounds a bit like this optical illusion, Mordant.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
18:17 / 16.07.02
The image usually just looks like a cutout of the noise that's been projected out of the noise. And I suppose seeing these things could very well be stymied by colorblindness.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:55 / 17.07.02
Tho' a colleague of mine, who's colour blind, has no trouble getting them.
 
  
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