I feel like if I can Master switching this one at will I'll gain a couple IQ points.The worst for me are the 3d spinning dancers where you have to try reeeeeeaaaallly hard to make it spin the other way.
This one:
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Optical Illusion Thread: The lines you see are perfectly straight.
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I can't see them.
However, for magic eye, the wiki article helped me understand and see them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram
It always helps me if I use my finger to point/spin in the direction I want it to turn.
megarockexe
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Now that you mention it, I can see the circles. The trick is to follow the horizontal lines in between the squares. Then you can see the rest.
Magic Eye is real. I struggled a lot to see it (and still do), but it is possible! Do you notice how if you focus on something close to you, the objects in the distance get crossed? That's what Magic Eye exploits.
I find that if you focus on a reflection on your display, your eyes will cross the contents in the display since you're focused on the reflection. Then you have to scan over the image without losing focus until your eyes pick up a 3-dimensional figure in the image. The resulting image is usually a 3D shape wrapped in the background image, which isn't the most obvious thing to spot. But there will be a foreground and a background that looks kind of like the 3DS's 3D.
But I don't cross my eyes. I could never do those dumb 3D tricks where two identical images are put side by side. That has to be a joke.
This is one thing that quite often catches people out, in part because there are stereograms out there that are dependent on your eyes converging (i.e. focussing on a point in front of the page). Magic Eye branded ones, though, as you say, are based on diverging (i.e. focussing on a point behind the page)
I really struggled to get Magic Eye to work for the longest time, practiced it extensively one holiday, and now I can literally 'click' it on straight away, and can adjust my focal point mostly at will (I say mostly, because I find converging a bit uncomfortable, but can do it fine). For what it's worth the tip that worked for me was to bring the book close to my eyes (with guide dots at the top) until it was so close that getting the single unified dot was trivial, and then trying to hold that focus while moving the book away from me.
It's also a nice shortcut for spot the difference puzzles - if you can adjust your eyes so the two images for the spot the difference are fully overlaid on each other, you'll note the differences appear to 'flicker'. That tends to be quite hard, though, the amount of divergence required is quite high (compared to Magic Eye that tends to not expect you to shift the image more than an inch or so)
That tip worked. Prior to your post, I didn't know what people were talking about. The image looked like inset moulding you'd see on doors and nothing else. Didn't know where the circles were:
There's 16 circles in the picture.
UpDownLeftRight
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None of these got me but fuck that dress. It was white and gold for three pages then all of a sudden I see it again and it's blue and black very obviously. I went back to page one convinced it was an edited image. To hell with that thing.
It still puzzles me.
Hint: Yellow = White - Blue
Also, note that the colors surrounding the image are conditioning your eye to see something that isn't there. Notice how on the right side there is a blue shade whereas on the left the dress is lit with a yellow light?
Proof: Take a paper plate and paint it into say 12 triangular slices, alternative with red and green colors (white = red + blue + green, so red + green = white - blue). Spin the plate rapidly. Your brain will interpret that as the color yellow.
No they're not?
Princess Viola
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I have never seen that dress as anything other than black and blue.
Also there is nothing in those goddamn magic eye pictures, you are goddamn liars there is no boat.
Also there is nothing in those goddamn magic eye pictures, you are goddamn liars there is no boat.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
My favorite is this:
Focus on the cross in the middle.
wow, this one. amazing how fast the face distortion happens and how fast it goes back to normal the second to move your eyes.
SallyIsNow
Banned
Holy shirlt I just fucking willed into black and blue and can't go back
oh god this is the worst one. I'm going to have nightmares.My favorite is this:
Focus on the cross in the middle.
My favorite is this:
Focus on the cross in the middle.
This one is freaky lol
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
It's white and gold to me again now. Kill it with fire.
What I meant was that all the pixels that appear red are actually gray. Of course there is not just gray in the picture, as you can clearly see in the image I posted directly below the strawberry image.
The yellow and blue bar move at constant speed:
The Troxler Effect (Focus on the cross. There is no green in this image):
Pretty fucking much.
People arguing that they're right about the color of the dress, or people who don't understand how it "magically" changed colors, despite countless fucking posts explaining it, are objectively idiots.
HyperZone<3
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I love this thread...
but enough with the dress already. Jeez.
but enough with the dress already. Jeez.
onken
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I can finally do this now. I widen my eyes slightly then watch the outside leg and quickly scan across in the desired direction and it changes on demand. Pretty crazy stuff.
Fun story from my younger years. I took a criminal law class in college taught by a guy who was a cop and a lawyer. One day during a normal lecture, the dean of our department came in, handed the professor something, they had a couple words, and she left.
About 30 minutes later the teacher interrupted himself, this time to ask us to write down everything we remembered about the encounter I described above. There was maybe 30 students in the class and I swear we had 30 different depictions of what happened. Some said the dean was angry, others that she was friendly. People remembered her handing different things to the prof. Some thought he said "Thanks hon" as she left, while others remember "Thank you ma'am," or "Thanks Sheila" or whatever else.
The variation was remarkable, and the professor pointed out that we were sitting relaxed in a comfortable surrounding, far away from the kind of stressful/scary situation where people are often called on to relay details to the police. Interesting stuff.
Yes. Please this.
Look at the reflection then figure. Do same when want to change direction again.
Samurai G0SU
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COOL!
Holy shit. I was staring at this for ages with her spinning clockwise thinking you had to be trolling because there's no way it could spin the other way. Then out of nowhere she's spinning anti-clockwise and I can't make her spin clockwise again. Great stuff but my brain really hurts now.The worst for me are the 3d spinning dancers where you have to try reeeeeeaaaallly hard to make it spin the other way.
This one:
To be fair, the dress is objectively blue and black. My wife owns it. Sure the black is a little goldish in the photo but that's just the camera. It's blue and black in real life:
Yes, that is agree upon that the dress is that color. But the colors in the image in the photo is not.
Very easy to check with paint programs.
Tertullian
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John Caboose
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Thanks for the 16 circles. I only saw the inset squares until you illustrated one circle highlighted but now I can't unsee them.
Think I'll go ahead and pass on that. Interesting reading though.
Lonewulfeus
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I'm white gold and I'm a night person, I don't get up til 1-2pm est
Gravy Boat
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The dress was white and gold the first time I saw it and I would have fought anyone who said otherwise. I was looking at it in my computer, looked away for a few seconds and when I looked back it was blue and black. I stared at it for about 10 minutes just to make sure it wasn't a gif. Haven't been able to see it as white and gold since.
eot
Banned
I love this one
There's 16 circles in the picture.
Don't get it, the circles stood out very clearly to me
John Caboose
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Jason Frost
Member
This one is like the ballerina:
Woman with her back turned or side profile of an old woman?
This is the first optical illusion I remember from my childhood!
This one is like the ballerina:
Its easier to follow.
The ballerina can be really tricky. I suggest looking at the reflection of her feet to be able to have your brain make it the other way. Works for me every time.
Septimus Prime
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If you don't look at her face, it's easier to see her spin.
John Rabbit
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crisdecuba
Member
I look at the reflection and blink until it changes.
lastplayed
Member
This one is like the ballerina:
Looks like her head is spinning opposite to her body.
Yeah, I'm seeing the patterns all over the forums now hehe. It's weird. This will be interesting to see how my mind does with this because of my TBI.
if I look from the right end of the items, it is three. If I look at the left end, it's four.
Rosvoja Torilla
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Septimus Prime
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Oh, no dragon yet?
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