By Vurdlak on April 23, 2009, with 136 Comments
I constantly receive requests for more stereograms, either though my mailbox, or inside the comments section. My problem with seeing the hidden image they contain is probably the reason I posted only so few of them. Magic Eyes, or how some like to call them “stereograms” are pictures you have to concentrate at, and suddenly the hidden meaning pops out at you. With the later mentioned, sometimes there is no hidden meaning, just the option to see the 2D image in 3D. Probably later versions aren’t stereograms at all, instead they should be refereed as stereo images. I’m the guilty one for posting them all inside the same category. If I understand your help correctly, you have to try and focus on the illusionary dot few inches behind your monitor, which I never manged. If you see this example, along with its solution, this is how the result should look like (apparently). Now let’s solve these three without me! If you want to see more of these, use the search in the sidebar, and enter stereograms or something. You can find more inside the appropriate category. Btw, the M&M Man is courtesy of Gary W. Priester.
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La stella artois diventa 3d!!
Spettacolo!
I really love these 3D pictures!Even if I do look a little silly with my eyes crossed.
just makes me hungry for m&m's and beer!!
yay
smartie man, curves and a dolphin
M&M guy (not smarties) 3D stella, and a mermaid (not a dolphin) . . . COOL!
Yay! I love magic eyes books so these are awesome! What I find best is if you bring your head close to the screen and stare at a detail in the picture even when it goes blurry until it re-focuses and then you can slowly bring your head back without blinking then, voila!
thats cool i love these things. also i noticed if you get your eyes locked on the top one you can scroll down and immediatly see the others!
How can you all see them, i dont see nothing at all? What do I have to do to see it?
I can’t see anything either!
you need to look behind the picture.
it’s easyer is you start next to youre screen and looking far away, and then go back slowly until you see something.
But don’t hope to see it well at once, it need some training.
I love the smartie and the mermaid :)
Someones just can’t see these 3d pictures by focusing eyes behind the screen. But there is a easier way too: by crossing your eyes and then slowly turn the focus towards the screen. (try to look to your nose and then slowly turn your look)
That is lots easier, but it makes 3d picture to “flip” – you’ll see things near you that you should see behind the screen – for example, the mermaid is a hole ;)
To see the image, focus your eyes on a point about two inches (5 cm) beyond your screen. Don’t cross your eyes; your eyes should actually be less ‘crossed’ than if you’re looking at the surface of the screen.
Technique: sit at a comfortable distance from the monitor. Examine the picture for a repeating pattern — for example, the yellow m&m's just above the centreline in the top image. Cross your eyes and line up one element of the repeating pattern to the next pattern along. Try to focus clearly and relax your eyes. Then just wait a few seconds while your brain works out what you're looking at. You should see some depth appearing first, then with practice you can hold your eyes like this while you scan them around the image to see what's there. The resulting 3D images are pretty difficult to understand at the best of times though.
i’ll give you a simple method to solve them.
1. Pick two repeating objects in the picture (every stereo image is based on repeating objects that are slightly altered to produce the 3d effect)
2. focus on those two objects and cross your eyes until the two objects overlap
3. wait a few secconds in that position and the 3D image should pop out. Cheers
I love these! more please!
Is the Stella one actually doctored, or is it just a photo of a row of Stella?
Normaly I’m good at this, but I cannot see this pictures! That makes me crazy!!! Arrrr
Is it me or do i see 7 beers instead of 6 when i focus.
very nice Stereograms btw.
maby a good tip, look as if ur looking behind the picture.
If you’re like me, looking beyond the picture is way difficult to do. What i did, was place the picture really close to my face. I relaxed my eyes so that the picture was blurry. In essence you are now looking behind the picture. Slowly move away from the picture, while keeping your eyes relaxed. At some point, the picture will be at that spot where you can see a 3 D image. I hope this helps!
I don't see a damn thing! And why do some M&M's have g's on them?
Notice some of the m&m's have a g on them, instead of an m. Has it something to do with google? it looks just like the google kind of g..:D
Btw: GREAT site, iloveit, keep up the good work, en very good luck with your exams;)
I LOVE THEESE!!! (do some more)
These are great, post more stereograms. I always love the “magic-eye” ones, but i am starting to like the 3d image ones as well. The stell bottles appear so clear and shiny and beautiful in 3d mindspace or w/e sterogram vision is…lol enjoy.. look behind the screen and let your eyes get super lazy and tired and dont “try ” to see it. be buddhist about it, no desire..cmon guys
oh and jababba…
def 7 bottles appear with the 3d stellas. the center one seems to be the pivotal bottle, whatever that means
Veri Nice specially the beer Bottles!
Get up close to the computer screen and look at your reflection in it. As you focus on the reflection (you can blink but just don’t refocus your eyes) you will eventually see a 3D image pop up. :)
It’s a little hard to focus with the images being so small…
Is there a higher Resolution version of these somewhere?
Yeeeyyy!!! I love this stuff! Didn’t know it also works on computers :-)
So cool to see there “really” are 7 stellas instead of 6 when you manage to see them in 3d, pretty cool!
I can’t see anything! It’s so infuriating… and my eyes hurt from trying to cross them!
i love stereograms theyre really cool! how do you actually create them?
Re: Comment #5
in Europe theres a candy called smarties thats pretty much m&m's
kanona05…
Here’s some ways to enlarge images in Vista IE. The easiest is to double-click on the picture. It opens on a separate page, (from photobucket) and then use the enlargement feature in the lower right corner of the IE window. Click once for 125%, twice for 150%, or use the dropdown arrow for custom sizes up to 400%.
Or, right click to copy the pic on the original page and paste it into the Paint program that’s been in every Win sys since 3.5, I think, (without changing!!) and enlarge it there.
Or, download Irfanview which is a terrific free basic graphics program. It’s safe, and has all kinds of handy features.
http://www.irfanview.com
Hope this helps!
Now, if someone could tell me how to see these images with only one eye! I can see double with it, but 3D is a very different world without stereoscopic vision!
Cheers-
HerCathyness
Does anyone know of any software to make stereograms like these?
Don’t worry Vurdlak you not alone in the universe :-). I never managed to see something in those pictures either…
I love these, too. I remember the first time I saw them, here in Melbourne, on a poster in an art shop. There were crowds of us peering at the posters. It was probably 1987.
I’ve been staring at stereograms for quite some time now… Now everything is wobbling. I can’t focus on text anymore, all the words are floating!
Love the mermaid especially, but the smiley dude was cool, as for the Stella, not that impressive unless I missed something, it was just like a 3d pic of bottles of Stella wasn’t it??
n the Stella Artos one, i see wine glasses in between the bottles! does anywone else?
I don’t get it, can someone tell me what I’m supposed to be seeing?
I LOVE THESE!! the stella artois one is especially cool!!
OMG! up until today I used to hate these because I could never see the image. I don’t know how but after a long while I finally saw them. Nice.
For those of you that are as pissed as I was that you can’t see them…print them out. It’s WAY easier on paper, and then once you’ve got the technique down, switch back to the computer and try it.
Another tip: Make sure you’re looking at the picture on the level, without tilting your head to the side. The illusion works by having your eyes focus on two separate points that are horizontally aligned.
I think those of us with astigmatism can’t see it. These never work for me.
Then again, maybe it’s just me.
Nevermind that last comment. Some the advice here (hold the monitor close and slowly increase distance) worked. I have never been able to see these. Cool!
Did anyone notice the other illusion in the second picture? The white space formed by the necks of the Stella bottles looks like wineglasses! How cool is that? =)
Does anyone have info on how these are created? A website with an article would be nice. I am not looking to start creating my own, but to understand how someone makes this type of object.
I don’t visit often, so replies can be sent using my personal website (sorry, I don’t want to post my email address on here):
http://www.joeswelding.biz
There is a big “Contact” button on there.
Thanks,
Joe
mon these re soo cool!! i hope you put more of them later!!
This page gives you help “seeing” the pictures. Just copy and past into your address window.
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/feb05/html/01.htm
Thanks for all the comments on technique. It seems with most (or maybe all) of them, keeping the eyes from refocussing is very important. Try as much as I can, I fund that I naturally refocus. Even a small shift in my head’s position and my eyes refocus.
I think I must just accept that I will never be able to see these images. So I vote for NO MORE!!!!
Good luck with the exam results Vurdlak. And keep up the great work wih this site, please.
Wow. That was awesome. I’ve never been able to get these to work. You just have to focus, concentrate, and relax, and just sit there without blinking and keeping your eyes perfectly still and eventually it’ll work.
woooooow amazing i couldnt get my eyes of it !! It took me a bit of time to figure out wath to do but u got it XD
Would this work if you printed them out?
Yes, there are books of these.
Since the fist day this post was posted I figure out to see the Ms&Ms one… but had trouble with the other two until today!!! Now I see the mermaid in the blue one (not a Dolphin like somebody said)… and in the beer one I just see the bottles in 3D, is there anything else that is supposed to been seen?
nope. can't get it at all.
one thing- how big is the M&M guy? and where is he?
I have NEVER been able to see these like normal people do… I don’t know what’s wrong with me, and I CAN focus weird…
Only way I’ve ever been able to decipher them was to find the fractures in the image– where the pattern breaks– and trace them with a marker, and only after doing that, did the image show up to me… D; Oh well.
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In the stella artois one, not only are the bottles 3D but there are 7! There are only 6 showing in the “plain” version.
I kinda just go cross eyed. There is a repeated pattern in the pictures and you have to cross your eyes to a certain degree where the repeats overlap and then your eyes kinda stay crossed and the image appears.
That’s my way of doing it. I perfected my technique in like 3rd grade while reading some like RPG book that told you to flip to certain pages based on what you saw in the images. I wish I could find those books again.
when i do it i kinda cross my eyes…and it works
i cant do those + i hav a head ach
The M&M Guy is so big and in the center of the picture, almost filling up the entire picture. He had his arms wide on his side and grinning just as wide. His nose is pointy.
The mermaid is alson in the center of the picture, but not as big as the M&M Guy. She is long and slender. Her head is on the left upper side of the picture, quite high that it’s close to the dark part of the picture. Her hair is tied up in a ponytail behind her head. Her tail is on the lower right side of the picture, but not too low. Perhaps just a bit lower from the middle of the picture, and not too far to the right.
The beer bottles I don’t get at all. Is this even a stereogram?
As to the simple techniques to do this, here’s my suggestion: Turn of the lights behind you. You can then see your reflection on your monitor. Focus on that reflection instead of the actual picture and let the picture blur away. Then you’ll automatically (almost instantly) get it.
And yes, you can see it in 3D as well if you print these pictures. To make it easier to see, put a wide flat glass in front of the picture and focus on your reflection on the glass. After you get the hang of it a few times, it will be easier to do, even without focusing on your reflection.
Very well put Spider! It’s too bad that the writer above the photos didn’t explain it like you did, because that is the correct way to get the effect. For instance, many people are crossing their eyes and they just might be getting an inside out version of the effect, and if they have never seen these before they would still think it’s neat, but not realizing that there is a much better view/effect.
Lol i only got the mermaid one, and you have to cross your eyes, the trick is for me, i have to keep my eyes crossed, i can do that… i just keep them crossed for about 10 seconds and then they stay lke that for 30 more seconds
you want to see more off this, go to http://www.magiceye.com its amazing
When I look at a stereogram picture I relax my eyes so that the one image splits into two images. When this happens I tilt my head left or right so that the images move away from each other perfectly horizontally. The trick then is to match up the pattern in the image, varying how much you relax your eyes. This sounds tricky but believe me you will be able to do it. the easiest way to see this is with the Stella Artois picture, but look for same coloured m&m’s in the other one. The m&m guy did take a moment or two to pop out.
my eyes are so hyperactive, so these don’t work so well on me… cool, though…
sometimes, what you can do to see it, is put ur face close and slowly back up without refocusing ur eyes, if youve done them before and know what happens when you see the image, u can sometimes cross ur eyes and slowly uncross them until u see an image. i luv these
wow cool advice, look past the image, look at it with out thinking and dont move a mucle the image should show up unclear but as time passes itll get clearer
i perfected my skills in my pre k dentist’s office cuz they had a painting of the statue of liberty in that form
i know a easy way!
just take the tip of yout nose in the middle of the monitor then move slowly back WHITOUT MOVING YOUR EYES then u see it!
There are actually 8 beer bottles when you’ve achieved the “right” focus.
You may have trouble seeing these if you have an astigmatism. I have a friend who couldn’t see these, but then after she got lasik eye surgery, she could see them. I think the astigmatism makes it difficult to focus both eyes the same amount to get the 3d effect going.
I see a big circle with arms in the first, in the second probable a siren, i don see very clear the face but the fish tail is clearly visible, lots of people can’t see this images not for not being able to, but because they don’t know a technique to approach the image.
Darn that swine flu! Every time I try to concentrate on something like this, I see a pig. o.O
the first one is some kind of M&M happy guy the second is just a 3d look on the labels and the third is a mermaid, omg i love magiceye!!!
I figured out how to get it work easily: cross your eyes and go closer to the image, slowly uncross and go farther away from the image.
thats very easy to figure it out…i leaned the technique of looking these pics while i was ard 10 yrs old….just try it like this (if u print, it will be easier):
1- Place ur pointing fingures on the middle of pic, somewhat a part from each other.
2- cross ur eyes looking at the two fingurs
3- try to make three fingures…keep concentrating for while…when u focus to that point, the hidden image will automatically appear…
no matter how hard i try i cant see the 3d picture, is it sommma to do with my right eye? (i am blind in my right eye)
hey, as some have said further up i use the techinque where you cross your eyes in the magic eye book i have this is supposed to be the advanced method as the image is pressed in as a pose to pulled out is there an easy way to get it to some out of the image instead of being pressed in?