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It’s two Romulan warbirds. I’m sure someone else can back me up for the non-believers.

  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    I can’t find the common frame of reference to let my eyes rest/lock on this one. Too much repetition. Being on mobile probably isn’t helping.

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      7 months ago

      I zoomed in just a tad on mobile.

      Took a while to find “the lock”, more than usually with these. (I spend hours looking at them as a kid.) Once I got it though, it stuck really well.

      !The ship in the top right corner looks like an apple though, dk if its supposed to be a Borg sphere or what!<

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        7 months ago

        I will take your word for it lol. I just tried again a few times and now my eyes hurt.

        And side note, spoiler tag syntax is different on Lemmy. Instead of

        >!text!<
        

        It’s

        ::: spoiler Button text   
        hidden text  
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        Like this

        I can’t really think of anything witty right now… best I can come up with is “beef stew.” I think my imagination is broken.

        I’m not sure which apps or front ends support what. I use Voyager and that only got spoiler support recently.

        (Unless the Lemmy markdown guidelines changed again, in which case ignore me, I’m behind)

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    7 months ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever done a magic eye on a smartphone before.

    Being able to zoom in and out adds a whole to dimension to it…

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      7 months ago

      Same here. Had to zoom in to get a fix on it, and then zoom back out to see what I was looking at. I’m surprised at how well it worked!

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      7 months ago

      Scaled down to fit a computer screen they get way worse.

      But they are just a couple of Romulan ships.

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      7 months ago

      I remember people trying to do it as a kid by putting their noses in the books, and it confused the hell out of me. But then when I’d explain how to do it, they acted like I was muttering moon speak.

      But what I do is just make repeating shapes overlap. Like, have you ever made your fingers overlap (by crossing your eyes)? Or played with the double images of things near your face while looking at something in the background?

      You just do that so that neighbouring copies of image elements overlap.

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      7 months ago

      Do you have extremely unbalanced vision in your eyes? Even with corrective lenses that can keep you from being able to stitch the images together properly for your brain to interpret the 3D image.

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        7 months ago

        Yes I looked this up after commenting and that’s why, I have astigmatism, and one eye is better than the other. So that’s why they don’t work on me

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    7 months ago

    Ok, managed to see it properly for once. What’s the 3rd object in the top right? Just a planet?

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      7 months ago

      I think so. Honestly, I didn’t even notice it until you pointed it out, I thought it was just part of the border.

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      7 months ago

      Maybe a moon, there’s actually also a larger planet just below the warbird on the right.

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    7 months ago

    Goddammit, I knew I shouldn’t have looked on eBay, just to see how much that poster is.

    I am NOT spending 130 goddamn dollars on that fucking poster.

    But I need you all to understand that I desperately WANT to do exactly that.

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    7 months ago

    Is this a parallel eyes one? I can only do crosseyed and couldn’t see it.

    I.e. I was looking in front of the screen but you need to look behind it for this one I think.

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      7 months ago

      If you look at it cross-eyed it should be the same image, just inverted (things that should be closer to you are further away instead).

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      The size of this image is making it a little weird. This one was clearly designed to be a full-sized poster, and unless you’re viewing the image on a very large display, it kinda pushes the amount of convergence that your eyes have to do into the slightly-too-small range.

      That means you’re likely adjusting your eyes to a point that doubles the correct convergence distance, and you’re getting a garbled image.

      Even when you do get it to appear correctly, the too-small size will make the illusion of depth somewhat less effective than it would be if you were looking at it, in the intended scale.

      EDIT: The source for this knowledge = every book about stereograms that I could ever find. Which was weirdly only a couple that actually discussed how they work, rather than just having a bunch of them printed. But I was legit OBSESSED with stereograms, back in the 90s. I read about them the way a kid who suddenly grows past 6’4" suddenly starts reading about basketball.