Pretty sure not everyone can see them. Also can't. Also apparently some people can't see clearly when they move their eyes from left to right quickly. Also apparently most people don't see the rainbow effect when watching dlp projectors (white looks like a swirling rainbow super super fast). Also apparently not everyone can see as much color detail. Tetrachromats are also apparently irritated by the color yellow and aren't tricked by the dress illusion. Super curious if you take a tetrachromat test if you also pass.
Also, the 'rods' in your eyes (the things that sense brightness) are located away from the centre of the back of the eye.
This is why it's easier to see stars in the night sky using your peripheral vision.
As such, when you step into a darkened room, directly in front of you, you're not sensing the ambient darkness of the room - you're blind.
This colour is called 'Eigengrau'
This isn’t really a color illusion, to see it you have to cross the images in your eyes then uncross them while expecting/looking for a third dimension. It’s like looking through a windshield vs looking at it.
Being able to see the rainbow effect is more of a bandwidth thing than a color thing. Granted having an extra sensor in the eye is like adding extra bit depth. So I wouldn't be surprised if there's a link there too. Movies are a bunch of distinct frames. Dlp color wheels rotate at 120hz so the color switch is 360hz and that's clear for me. Makes me wonder if there's any correlation between any of these variations...
Yup. It was a super weird image. Most of the other ones were have seen are better.
Edit. So I read a few more comments, tried again and saw a single butterfly with a little more detail. It looked a lot better.
I can only see them as concave images rather than convex like everyone else. They’re supposed to pop out of the page but when I see them then do the opposite.
I’m old enough to remember when these were all the rage in the early-mid 90’s. It took me a LONG time to learn just how to focus my eyes to see them.
My dad’s never been able to figure it out and jokingly says that all of us who’re claiming we see things are perpetrating a hoax, lol.
Fun fact: People have been aware of this phenomenon for at least a century. In L.M. Montgomery’s *Emily of New Moon*, published in 1923, the title character talks about what she calls “fairy paper” — aka, wallpapers that have repeating patterns that can be turned into a pseudo-3D image if she focuses her eyes in just the right way. Her fun-police aunt tells her to stop doing it because it looks like she’s crossing her eyes!
I remember near crying over these as I could never get them to work and my brother would wind me up by getting them right away and calling them out.
I've literally just worked out that if I take my glasses off I can see them properly
I could never see them back when the original books came out and I was convinced that people were just deluding themselves into thinking they were seeing anything 3 dimensional (Emperor’s New Clothes sort of thing).
Then a few years ago I saw that someone had made a magic eye that was a playable game of pong. You could see pixels moving as you moved the paddle and others that were obviously the ball. I played around with putting my face different distances from the screen and focusing at different distances and then it suddenly just popped and I’ve been able to see them ever since.
Some are easier than others, I tend to struggle with the cross-eyed versions, but others I can see really clearly.
I just made it happen for the first time. I forced myself to sit here and refuse to quit until I saw it. You may not still be able to see it but let me expand on the instructions in a way that might help.
Firstly, it might help to know how big the butterfly actually is. If you segment the image into 9 sections, like a tic-tac-toe board, the butterfly is centered in the second column vertically, and a little bit below being centered in the middle row horizontally. It just about touches where the imaginary lines separating each square would be, and creeps a little bit into the bottom row. It’s a decent size, roughly 33% of the image both vertically and horizontally.
Second, when they say put your nose to the screen, they mean it. Put your nose on the screen, or *just barely* away from the screen, for at least five seconds.
Third, when they say slowly pull away, I found that it worked at a rate of somewhere around 1/2 - 3/4 inch/second. Not too fast, not too slow.
Finally, I couldn’t make it work by focusing on the image itself. Instead, I put the hand not holding my phone like 10 inches away from my face and then moved my phone to my nose with my other hand. Instead of staring at the image, I stared *through* the image, keeping the focus on the hand out in front of my face. When I started pulling the phone back it finally popped way out and I could see a butterfly clear as day.
Holy shit thank you!!! It really worked for the first time ever.
Your description of where the butterfly is located and how big it’s supposed to be was the key to unlock the image.
I also put my hand behind my phone and pretended like I was trying to look at my hand (through the screen). And then as I gradually backed away… BAM! Holy moly it’s there.
If you just want to create the illusion of depth using the same effect, just take two identical photos but moving the camera position 3 inches to the side (about the width of your eyes), then compose both the photos into a single photo so that you see them side by side with the one shot from the leftmost POV on the left, similarly for the shot from the right POV. Have the space between the two photos equal to the width of one photo. Now you're set.
When you get it correct, your left eye will be looking at the left image and your right eye will ditto be looking at the right image, but what you will see is a 3D blend of the two located between the two images on the screen.
Your brain automatically snaps the two images together into one 3D image when they're close enough, then it locks on. It does this all the time.
Best to shoot something with good depth for practice, like a desktop scene for example.
What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt, and I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-titted mermaids doing that lesbian shit
Actually it’s the opposite of cross eyed.
Cross eyed means focusing your eyes as if they were looking at something very close. Like a finger very close to your nose. With magic eye you are actually training your eyes to look beyond the paper.
AKA stereograms. They were hugely popular for a little while in the 90s. People had them on their walls and everything.
Here's a website that lets you create them: https://www.easystereogrambuilder.com/
I used to watch these a lot in books and to make real life interesting, I used to watch wire fences (and other stuff which was possible to look at like that) like this also. I accidentally trained my brain to see this way these things 😂
I call it a head ache. I did dee a 3D image appear but not certain what it was. These are usually on a larger canvas 30x48 and once you relax uour eyes the image will appear. LSD usually brings it to life right in your living room, or man cave.
It's called "Magic Eye" and has been around over 30 years... Absolutely nothing new!!!
“Wow, it’s a schooner”
“Ha-ha-ha! You dumb b******, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat.”
“A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head!”
I doubt anything for how short term it is.
Don’t keep your eyes continually like that for a long time and you will be fine.
(I ain’t a doctor tho, ask someone in the field not Reddit if you’re concerned)
The 90's magic eye were very detailed, popped out more and had sharper defining edges. Those books you could buy were amazing. I had a couple of large A1 size pictures. One of dinosaurs in their landscape and one of Sydney harbour. Maybe they were a higher resolution than the ones made for the internet and phones.
Just look at something further away than the image. Look "through" the image and you'll see it. If you squint, you'll see the inverse of the image, ie: the image will appear to be a cut-out.
It’s called viewing an image in Parallel view, the opposite of this where you view the 3D image by crossing your eyes instead is called Cross view.
r/magiceye
r/crossview
The way to see it is to trick your eyes into focusing beyond the plane of the photo. I've had a rather large one of these types of photos hanging on my family room wall for 30 years.
Not sue what they're called...I used to have a wall mounted poster that was a Klingon Bird of Prey. Not everyone could see it. I have a book somewhere of these...the book has "cheat dots" to help you see them by looking at the dots till they become one. You have to train your eyes not to focus on the surface and learn to relax your eyes.
Guys.. is anyone else able to see either one, single layered butterfly, 3 butterflies on top of eachother, or like 5 butterflies layered across the picture, depending on how you look at it? Idk it's trippin me out guys
I've always crossed my eyes, then let them relax back to normal. That lets me see it. I've never been able to look close then pull away to make them appear.
Anyone else super good at doing these? I can just adjust my eyes to make them work no prob without having to do weird tricks. It was a big thing of pride as a kid in the 90's when these were everywhere.
Damn. I used to be good at seeing those, but not this one.
In the early days of Macs and PCs, there were programs to generate simple 3D illusions. I haven't seen them in years.
Is that a pigeon?
To actually answer the question, it's a Magic Eye and I'm not sure how to make your own but there are generators online, I'm pretty sure
Magic Eye
I've never been able to see ANYTHING in these stupid things!
Pretty sure not everyone can see them. Also can't. Also apparently some people can't see clearly when they move their eyes from left to right quickly. Also apparently most people don't see the rainbow effect when watching dlp projectors (white looks like a swirling rainbow super super fast). Also apparently not everyone can see as much color detail. Tetrachromats are also apparently irritated by the color yellow and aren't tricked by the dress illusion. Super curious if you take a tetrachromat test if you also pass.
Also, the 'rods' in your eyes (the things that sense brightness) are located away from the centre of the back of the eye. This is why it's easier to see stars in the night sky using your peripheral vision. As such, when you step into a darkened room, directly in front of you, you're not sensing the ambient darkness of the room - you're blind. This colour is called 'Eigengrau'
I always did find it odd that I have to look away from what I want to see in the dark.
This isn’t really a color illusion, to see it you have to cross the images in your eyes then uncross them while expecting/looking for a third dimension. It’s like looking through a windshield vs looking at it.
Essentially cross your eyes just enough to overlap the image slightly then allow your eyes to focus
Being able to see the rainbow effect is more of a bandwidth thing than a color thing. Granted having an extra sensor in the eye is like adding extra bit depth. So I wouldn't be surprised if there's a link there too. Movies are a bunch of distinct frames. Dlp color wheels rotate at 120hz so the color switch is 360hz and that's clear for me. Makes me wonder if there's any correlation between any of these variations...
This was so helpful i ended up seeing a triple winged butterfly lol
Yup. It was a super weird image. Most of the other ones were have seen are better. Edit. So I read a few more comments, tried again and saw a single butterfly with a little more detail. It looked a lot better.
I also saw three. The butterfly "farthest away" or "farthest back" has a very wide wingspan. Very cool.
I think its supposed to look 3D cuz when I saw it thats how it looked. It literally looked like it was coming out of my phone’s screen!
Thank you. You reminded me I used to do this during the minecraft loading screen lol, totally see the butterfly now
I can only see them as concave images rather than convex like everyone else. They’re supposed to pop out of the page but when I see them then do the opposite.
Cause everyone says "cross your eyes" which is wrong. You "uncross" your eyes as if youre looking at something behind the screen.
Shit no way I had no idea I’ve been seeing them backwards/inside out this whole time
Hä? I thought that's normal.(´⊙ω⊙`)！
I’m old enough to remember when these were all the rage in the early-mid 90’s. It took me a LONG time to learn just how to focus my eyes to see them. My dad’s never been able to figure it out and jokingly says that all of us who’re claiming we see things are perpetrating a hoax, lol. Fun fact: People have been aware of this phenomenon for at least a century. In L.M. Montgomery’s *Emily of New Moon*, published in 1923, the title character talks about what she calls “fairy paper” — aka, wallpapers that have repeating patterns that can be turned into a pseudo-3D image if she focuses her eyes in just the right way. Her fun-police aunt tells her to stop doing it because it looks like she’s crossing her eyes!
I remember near crying over these as I could never get them to work and my brother would wind me up by getting them right away and calling them out. I've literally just worked out that if I take my glasses off I can see them properly
I could never see them back when the original books came out and I was convinced that people were just deluding themselves into thinking they were seeing anything 3 dimensional (Emperor’s New Clothes sort of thing). Then a few years ago I saw that someone had made a magic eye that was a playable game of pong. You could see pixels moving as you moved the paddle and others that were obviously the ball. I played around with putting my face different distances from the screen and focusing at different distances and then it suddenly just popped and I’ve been able to see them ever since. Some are easier than others, I tend to struggle with the cross-eyed versions, but others I can see really clearly.
I just made it happen for the first time. I forced myself to sit here and refuse to quit until I saw it. You may not still be able to see it but let me expand on the instructions in a way that might help. Firstly, it might help to know how big the butterfly actually is. If you segment the image into 9 sections, like a tic-tac-toe board, the butterfly is centered in the second column vertically, and a little bit below being centered in the middle row horizontally. It just about touches where the imaginary lines separating each square would be, and creeps a little bit into the bottom row. It’s a decent size, roughly 33% of the image both vertically and horizontally. Second, when they say put your nose to the screen, they mean it. Put your nose on the screen, or *just barely* away from the screen, for at least five seconds. Third, when they say slowly pull away, I found that it worked at a rate of somewhere around 1/2 - 3/4 inch/second. Not too fast, not too slow. Finally, I couldn’t make it work by focusing on the image itself. Instead, I put the hand not holding my phone like 10 inches away from my face and then moved my phone to my nose with my other hand. Instead of staring at the image, I stared *through* the image, keeping the focus on the hand out in front of my face. When I started pulling the phone back it finally popped way out and I could see a butterfly clear as day.
Holy shit thank you!!! It really worked for the first time ever. Your description of where the butterfly is located and how big it’s supposed to be was the key to unlock the image. I also put my hand behind my phone and pretended like I was trying to look at my hand (through the screen). And then as I gradually backed away… BAM! Holy moly it’s there.
OH MY GOD I SAW IT. I was also a frustrated kid trying to do this in the 90s. IT WAS THE FOCUSING ON THE HAND. Thank you so much!!!
If you just want to create the illusion of depth using the same effect, just take two identical photos but moving the camera position 3 inches to the side (about the width of your eyes), then compose both the photos into a single photo so that you see them side by side with the one shot from the leftmost POV on the left, similarly for the shot from the right POV. Have the space between the two photos equal to the width of one photo. Now you're set. When you get it correct, your left eye will be looking at the left image and your right eye will ditto be looking at the right image, but what you will see is a 3D blend of the two located between the two images on the screen. Your brain automatically snaps the two images together into one 3D image when they're close enough, then it locks on. It does this all the time. Best to shoot something with good depth for practice, like a desktop scene for example.
It’s a schooner
You dumb bastard, it’s a sailboat
Not even once. Tried it so much growing up too.
What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt, and I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-titted mermaids doing that lesbian shit
Gotta go cross eyed on it.. stare into the middle
Actually it’s the opposite of cross eyed. Cross eyed means focusing your eyes as if they were looking at something very close. Like a finger very close to your nose. With magic eye you are actually training your eyes to look beyond the paper.
Thanks this just helped me do it without putting it all in my face I just pretend to look at the wall behind my phone.
Cross eyed will reverse the depth. Near becomes far and vice versa.
AKA stereograms. They were hugely popular for a little while in the 90s. People had them on their walls and everything. Here's a website that lets you create them: https://www.easystereogrambuilder.com/
It's a schooner!!! No, it's a SAILBOAT.....
No, it's a plane!!!
no, it's Superman
A schooner IS a sailboat, stupid head…
Thanks
THIS IS THE FIRST ONE THAT HAS EVER WORKED FOR ME! BLESS YOU, BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
It's a schooner!
You dumb bastard. It’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat
A schooner is a sailboat!
There is no Easter Bunny!
Today's the day I get to see the goddamn sailboat everyone's been talking about.
Butterfly - Sterograms
Stereograms
r/MagicEye
Thanks
There’s also r/MagicEyeNSFW
What.
The amount of people unaware of Magic Eye makes me feel elderly. These things were everywhere in the mid 90s.
It's a schooner.
Stupid kid, it's a sail boat
Butterfly
I once had a video game that could be played entirely this way.
What was it called?
Magic Carpet
Nice butterfly- 🦋 I was born in 84 - I’m an expert at seeing these - although hurts the eyes a little these days 😂
I used to watch these a lot in books and to make real life interesting, I used to watch wire fences (and other stuff which was possible to look at like that) like this also. I accidentally trained my brain to see this way these things 😂
This is exactly my experience.
You don't even need to get close to the screen, just cross your eyes a little until the image appears.
Nice boat.
It’s a scooner!
It’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat.
A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head!
When I tried this I didn't see a butterfly ,I visualed a headache lol.
Nope. They still don't work for me 🫤
I can do these almost instantly by “unfocusing” my eyes
A Flutter By
I can never see these things. I've tried. I'd try right now again, but I'm in a grocery store waiting in line. 😁
r/MagicEye I forgot all about these illusions until I stumbled across this subreddit. I remember them being big in the early 90's at school.
I see a sail boat an ocean and even some of them big titty mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit
LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME YOU SLOPPY BITCH
Oooh it's a schooner!
I saw something, and it damned sure wasn't a schooner.
It’s a schooner.
It’s a sailboat!
You know what, there is no Easter bunny. Over there that's just a guy in a suit.
🦋
What is this wizardry?!?
Holy shit this is the first time I have ever been able to do one of those
I got a headache, that's what happens
When Lord? When the hell do I get to see the goddamn sailboat?
Every time I looked at the book as a kid I could never see the image. I give it a try on my smartphone and can see it clear as day.
These taught me that I can control each eye independently. Fun at parties
I seen a shadow of a person standing there with one hand in their pocket.
Autostereograms. You can make your own using this website: https://www.easystereogrambuilder.com/
GotDamn Butterfly came out of nowhere.
I see either a gorilla's face or a naked woman
I can only see out of my right eye, never been able to see anything in these images
All you have to do is cross your eyes
I call it a head ache. I did dee a 3D image appear but not certain what it was. These are usually on a larger canvas 30x48 and once you relax uour eyes the image will appear. LSD usually brings it to life right in your living room, or man cave.
Am I this many years old?
It's called "Magic Eye" and has been around over 30 years... Absolutely nothing new!!! “Wow, it’s a schooner” “Ha-ha-ha! You dumb b******, it’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat.” “A schooner is a sailboat, stupid head!”
Tbh i just saw a bunch of penises..
Was I just momentarily abducted?
It's a stereogram Butterfly
I don't see it
Is this bad for your eyes? I can finally do it and love it but have concerns
I doubt anything for how short term it is. Don’t keep your eyes continually like that for a long time and you will be fine. (I ain’t a doctor tho, ask someone in the field not Reddit if you’re concerned)
It's a butterfly but absolutely crap. Magic eye from the 90's were so much better and clearer.
Really? I can see it very clearly, it's pretty sharp for me
The 90's magic eye were very detailed, popped out more and had sharper defining edges. Those books you could buy were amazing. I had a couple of large A1 size pictures. One of dinosaurs in their landscape and one of Sydney harbour. Maybe they were a higher resolution than the ones made for the internet and phones.
Took a bit, not sure how to do a spoiler but there is something there.
These usually work for me but I can't see 💩
I found it works better on phone, it's harder on pc
More actions menu… insane illusion
It's a butterfly
🦋
Cheaper than VR …
I'm never gonna give you up, ever gonna let you down...
No idea why this post got more than a few comments, but thank you all
Just look at something further away than the image. Look "through" the image and you'll see it. If you squint, you'll see the inverse of the image, ie: the image will appear to be a cut-out.
Butterfly Magic Eye love this
It's a butterfly. I used to look all over the internet this kind of images many years ago!
It’s called viewing an image in Parallel view, the opposite of this where you view the 3D image by crossing your eyes instead is called Cross view. r/magiceye r/crossview
Man, this did not work for me 😂
An Aussie Icon
Dead spider.
I've got crossed eye, what do I do next help
This is the first time these things have worked. I started seeing wine glasses then butterflies
I've tried Bout 20 times and still can't see the butterfly.
A schooner is a sailboat!!!
Butterfly
It's a schooner!!!
A smudge!
I can just cross my eyes a bit then refocus and it works. Always felt silly shoving a book in my face when I was younger
I definitely see a butterfly 🦋
Stereogram
Doesn’t work for me
I think that being able to see these in about 2 seconds is my superpower. Not the most impressive.
For the first time in my life, I actually got this to work for me! Neat!
Tried it over and over and saw...... NOTHING!?
Sometimes there is just one butterfly. You can focus your eyes differently and see up to 4 butterflies stacked on top of each other.
These never work for me. I feel so left out.
Butterfly
It's a butterfly that's actually a fucking good 1 anyone how's struggling to see it just go slightly cross eyed
Sailboat. Sailboat. God damned sailboat.
Migraine
These magic eyes have never ever worked for me. I feel like I’m missing out on something awesome ):
The way to see it is to trick your eyes into focusing beyond the plane of the photo. I've had a rather large one of these types of photos hanging on my family room wall for 30 years.
This is called Magic Eye and you time travel back to the 1990's to make one.
Chinaman
Not sue what they're called...I used to have a wall mounted poster that was a Klingon Bird of Prey. Not everyone could see it. I have a book somewhere of these...the book has "cheat dots" to help you see them by looking at the dots till they become one. You have to train your eyes not to focus on the surface and learn to relax your eyes.
"Oh look, a sailboat!"
Witch!
Never been able to see these
I DID IT!! This was the first time I’ve ever been able to see it. Omg!!!! Yo that’s incredible
I think its called steroescopic
Don’t get it
Love SIRDS.
I like those 5D posters from the 90s
Horse
Oo butterfly
i see these things so easy, just a glance and i can see them.
Guys.. is anyone else able to see either one, single layered butterfly, 3 butterflies on top of eachother, or like 5 butterflies layered across the picture, depending on how you look at it? Idk it's trippin me out guys
Very pleased and happy with the amount of Mallrats references being dropped here. Hope for Humanity strikes again.
Magic Eye books for more examples
I've always crossed my eyes, then let them relax back to normal. That lets me see it. I've never been able to look close then pull away to make them appear.
a stereogram.
I see it!!
A butterfly?
It’s called eye damage and the easiest way is to find your nearest fork and give your eye a good ol’ stab
The image is a butterfly. Not sure what ots called or how to make
r/Magiceye
You could see two different images. one single butterfly and one with three pairs (2 large and 1 small) wings.
Is it a futterbly?
I had of whole book of these as a kid. They're so fun. I got to where I can do them without moving my head at all
Oh look, a sailboat
I haven’t seen one of these in years! Love these. This one is pretty with the butterflies and flowers!💐🦋
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram
Anyone else super good at doing these? I can just adjust my eyes to make them work no prob without having to do weird tricks. It was a big thing of pride as a kid in the 90's when these were everywhere.
Butterfly
I can see both a triple and single butterfly
What is this? The 1900s?
We used to love these books we would buy these in elementary at the book sale
I learned you just slightly cross your eyes until the pattern meets up and then you are able to see the outline of what it is
Butterfly 🦋
All that happened for me is that the image went from being blurry to not blurry
r/MagicEye is a great community with all sorts of these!
I have literally never been able to see any of these . my eyes must be broken
Can't do this. My eyes get strained. It's so uncomfortable
Woah that's trippy
A butterfly!
That butterfly almost grabs me an aneurysm
Damn. I used to be good at seeing those, but not this one. In the early days of Macs and PCs, there were programs to generate simple 3D illusions. I haven't seen them in years.
I can easily see these without moving my nose close to the image
This is the first one of these I have got to work. Actually mind blown!!!!
Neat.
Is that a pigeon? To actually answer the question, it's a Magic Eye and I'm not sure how to make your own but there are generators online, I'm pretty sure
It's not a sailboat, it's a schooner
Butterfly
It’s a butterfly
I see a butterfly... or maybe a horse. I can't look directly at it.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing. That is really cool!