Comments on: Church Stereogram Optical Illusion

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:12:36 +0000

woah. It was like I put on a pair of 3D glasses or stepped into the picture. It was so pretty!!

By: stuart

stuart — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:25:17 +0000

This one IS possible as long as you view it here on this page and don’t view the enlarged version :) Beautiful image

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:11:59 +0000

Hey, I really am blind in one eye. Not that it really matters, stereogramsnever worked on me… even when my eye could see

By: shaun snyder

shaun snyder — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:34:52 +0000

hey im 15 and i do only have 1 eye but i was born that way and yes we arent capable of doing things such as seeing 3d movies or being able to see these sterograms. but it dosent matter to me that i only have one eye. i can still see well and read well but visibility is weakend alittle.

By: Pavel Rak

Pavel Rak — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:04:57 +0000

Hi friends, I can help you.
Do not look at the pictures as if they are few feet away, but look relaxedly into distance, as if the pictures were far away, be relaxed and in few seconds- suddenly – you will see the stereo effect. That is the tric how to look at these pictures.
I admit it takes some practice, because normally, when you look as something close, you focus your eyes.
So do not focus, look as if into distance … and that’s it.

By: finch

finch — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:10:40 +0000

This one is for crossing the eyes. If you look with the eyes defocused, it’s inside-out image, doesn’t make sense. Copy the image on the hard drive and swap the sections left-right into paint to make it right for defocused.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:15:25 +0000

Wow! I love these! If I try I can get the picture perfect in a second. The 3d looks amazing, especially since mi can cross my eyes easily. Only problem is uncrossing them!

By: Duni

Duni — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:54:02 +0000

It IS possible! Once you get it in focus it’s beautiful!You have to cross your eyes to the point where it seems like there are three pictures on the screen, then focus on the one in the middle until becomes clear.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:01:11 +0000

This one is not possible, not when 2 pictures are side by side, the distance is just too great. Most of the stereograms have pictures that overlap at some point with varing distances at certain points to give the effect of various depths. Maybe if i has some tequila.

By: amanda

amanda — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:06:46 +0000

exactly, crossing my eyes makes it seem like hell…

By: Green Eyes

Green Eyes — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:14:12 +0000

A comment about one-eyed people and 3D seeing.
It’s impossible to see in stereo with one eye! Stereo means space, 3 dimensions. One eye only sees two dimensions, height and width. But with a second eye placed a little bit away, the both eyes’ different viewpoints make it possible to get the depth too. They see more than a flat image from the front, they see a bit “round the corner”. And this is important to estimate distances, regardless the size of objects.
Example: One eye sees two people of same size, and thus thinks they stand on the same distance. Two eyes see that they stand in different places and that the guy in the far actually is taller. Or if the one eye sees a big person and a little one, it thinks the big is closer. Two eyes see they are on same distance and get a correct perception of their size difference. Also the both eyes must look in the same direction for the stereo effect – humans, cats, owls etc. Animals with one eye on each side of the head – rabbits, gazelles – have no real stereo sight, more like to monos. But they can see all around themselves, also much behind. Very useful when a “front-eyed” predator comes from the backside.
A chameleon has both advantages. It turns its eyes separately in any direction needed to check up the surroundings, and then focusing both eyes exactly on a certain object – the prey.
One-eyed people of course learn to estimate distances by knowing a lot of facts about the size of different objects. And they can move the head to look from different directions, and many animals do so aswell. All this goes for (stereo) hearing too! Just think how you do when trying to find out where a noise is coming from…
And crossing eyes again: it’s no more difficult than looking at your finger maybe 20 cm away. Normally you should see even 5 cm close.

By: Green Eyes

Green Eyes — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:27:47 +0000

The “looking-through” method won’t work with this one. This picture is a little too big to get the two parts together. Each width should not be more than 4,5 cm (130-140 px). And you must look quite close.
Also they should change places!!! That means the left picture should be seen with the right eye and vice versa. Otherwise the far parts get to front an vice versa. Unless this weird effect is meant to be…
But crossing eyes (really just a little) gives here the right impression; right eye focus on left picture. And it is in fact easy too – you may need some training first. The picture size or distance is no problem either!
Good luck. It is a beautiful picture. And creating 3D-effects is fun, I have done some drawings (“cartoons”) like that.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:36:42 +0000

Unlike most people, crossing my eyes(even slowly) makes the image a hell of alot worse…

Instead, with stereograms i look “through” the images (as if looking at something far away) and try to get them together that way.

Sometimes it doesn’t work (if the images are too big, or such) but on the whole it works fine.

By: moe

moe — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:21:30 +0000

darn! i can’t cross my eyes!

By: Noncon4mist

Noncon4mist — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:03:19 +0000

This stereogram also has the two images the wrong way round.

Not convinced?

Put either hand in front of your face with the thumb nearest your eyes. You can see the left side of your hand more with your left eye, and the right side more with the right eye.

Now look at the lamp post on the right pic. It shows a person. Only the LEFT eye would see this! So the images need to be swapped around to be viewed in 3D.

The pigeon one was correct.