Comments on: Spot the Difference.

By: Monster-Maniac

Monster-Maniac — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:01:28 +0000

Wow, it works! I could never solve those things. Thanks!

By: Bobo

Bobo — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:55:53 +0000

Ouch. This just made me realise how crap I am at crossing my eyes.

James... I suck at those magic eye things as well. I could stand in front of one for hours like William in Mallrats and I wouldn't see a damn thing.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:43:36 +0000

wow, works perfectly

By: Tinderbox

Tinderbox — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:49:28 +0000

James, sounds like you were trying to hard with the "magic eye" pictures. It's better to see them when you relax, rather than trying to see them. I can usually decipher them in 5-10 seconds. With those its easier NOT to cross your eyes.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:17:05 +0000

aspirin please?

By: tom b

tom b — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:50:03 +0000

The cross-eye thing works. And being able to do that is useful in my work (Chemistry) because sometimes journals publish stereo pairs of 3D renderings of molecules.

By: John

John — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:38:04 +0000

I did that when I was a kid on all the spot the difference panels in the comics. Works great!

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:27:47 +0000

My eyes!! @_@

By: medea

medea — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:21:33 +0000

it works! even for small differences like changes in color or shading in certain areas like the line beneath the light blue circle on the upper right.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:15:24 +0000

For really really great stereoscopic images visit this site:

http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/display/777504

Many of these pictures are marvellous.

By: Mr Pudifoot

Mr Pudifoot — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:12:01 +0000

Oh, yeah, look.
It's a sailboat!

By: gail

gail — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:27:04 +0000

Smart idea, James. I get sick if I cross my eyes.

By: James Schend

James Schend — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:21:19 +0000

Quicker to just open the image in Paint.NET or Photoshop Elements or whatever, copy half into another layer, set the layer transparency to 50%, and overlap the two.

I say this because things involving crossing my eyes NEVER work for me. That stupid "magic eye" craze a few years back was like torture... never in my life have I seen one of those.

By: mobius8

mobius8 — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:12:02 +0000

heh, had to reduce the image size in Photoshop, because my eyes are to close to eachother now it works

By: AM

AM — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:09:41 +0000

wow, it does! 3d effect. how marvellous.

By: Scott Carney

Scott Carney — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:59:23 +0000

I second Dan's comment. "Holy Crap, it does".

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:50:01 +0000

holy crap it does! the things 'pop' out

By: Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:47:00 +0000

Same here. I can see the third image, but can't focus on it long enough to see the effect.

By: gail

gail — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:36:00 +0000

I can't cross my eyes long enough to get the effect.

By: Argonauta

Argonauta — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:29:19 +0000

It works. It's the same visual trick that is used to create that kind of 3d old fashioned magic eye effect on images with patterns (www.magiceye.com).

By: brian t

brian t — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:28:13 +0000

Yes - and this is the same technique used to view stereoscopic pictures. In that case the two pictures have the same elements displaced laterally, giving you the 3D effect. Try some of the examples on Wikipedia's "Stereoscopy" page. In this case it's a total mismatch of the elements in each picture, and the "glow" is the effect of your brain trying (and failing) to place them in a 3D field of vision. Eek...