My problem with stereograms is that they always seem to resolve backwards to me -- I see the 3d going into the distance, rather than popping out at me. And thus the image itself is..all wrong :/ It drives me nuts.
That's how I learned to do it because I couldn't do the un-focus thing and instead crossed my eyes. I've since learned how to relax, but I often cross my eyes first to lock on to the image and get an idea of what I'm supposed to see. If you horizontally mirrored this image, I think you could see the floating view?
Same here. If I can get them to work they sink in rather than pop out. I can't even get this one to do anything. I think the movement is keeping me from doing it.
I credit my ability to see random dot stereograms easily to learning to move my eyeballs independently as a party trick, in early highschool. Nothing bothers people quite like staring at them with one eye, and rolling the other one around in its socket.
(an important part of the trick is getting your brain to stop trying to "lock on" to things with your eyes - which is extremely useful when doing a stereogram)
Okay, once I learned the trick for keeping the motion from disrupting my concentration with the first one, I got the second one almost effortlessly. This one, however, gave me some real problems. I couldn't get it to resolve to anything until I was already typing this reply. Even now that I can see something in it, I can't see it moving, I just see the patterns moving across a stationary shape. More of a flickering effect than anything else. Also this one seems to be much more strongly affected by viewing distance than the other two.
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Date: 2007-09-21 05:54 pm (UTC)I can't even get this one to do anything. I think the movement is keeping me from doing it.
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Date: 2007-09-21 05:48 pm (UTC)Nice, nice, nice.
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Date: 2007-09-21 05:52 pm (UTC)So what's it supposed to be?
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Date: 2007-09-21 05:56 pm (UTC)THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY!
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Date: 2007-09-21 06:29 pm (UTC)Also, trivia: the stereogram in Mallrats does not show a boat- it shows four platonic solids.
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Date: 2007-09-21 06:48 pm (UTC)(an important part of the trick is getting your brain to stop trying to "lock on" to things with your eyes - which is extremely useful when doing a stereogram)
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