   Stereo Vision - Optical Illusion
  I found this while I was poking around a QB site. It basically generates a pattern of dots, and you look at it in a certain way, and suddenly the pattern is a 3D picture. There are 3 programs in the ZIP to try it out on (the best is the second one), and a .DOC explaining how to achieve the effect.Try it out. Does it work for you?edit: Sort of like this:[Edited by - Oberon_Command on December 5, 2005 8:12:03 PM]
  I can never do these things... Not the Magic Eye in the comics, not that awful clock-radio stereo image thing from that puzzle-image site.   ;  I found it a lot easier to do the magic eye things after looking through an entire book of stereoscopic imagesMy method - go crosseyed & look at the centre join, move towards/away from the image until the two pictures join to form a 3rd. Watch out when doing this on a monitor - I've just been trying & my vision's gone really blurryPicked that one as it took the least time for me to see the effect & was most obvious out of the ones I tried.   ;  I can do those magic eye things pretty well (that one just looks like a bunch of bumps?) but those programs just make my monitor go into power saving mode!Edit: No, that's not a weird metaphor, they really do!   ;  a load of balls.. so to speakooooooooooootype thing(oh yeah, cross-eyed doesn't work for me with these, but doing the same thing as above & then relaxing does)   ;Quote:Original post by DrewGreenI found it a lot easier to do the magic eye things after looking through an entire book of stereoscopic imagesMy method - go crosseyed & look at the centre join, move towards/away from the image until the two pictures join to form a 3rd. Watch out when doing this on a monitor - I've just been trying & my vision's gone really blurryPicked that one as it took the least time for me to see the effect & was most obvious out of the ones I tried.Those images are too far apart, that's the problem.Crossing your eyes delivers the wrong effect. I know, because I can do it easily and I thought that was the correct way to do it. Intriguingly, it results in a negative depth of field; things that should disappear into the distance approach the foreground, and vice versa. With a realistic image as that one, it confuses the brain.With that image, you'll have to look at it from pretty far away (or make it smaller). Your eyes can only separate so far. If the images are farther apart from each other than your eyes, you're not going to have much luck.   ;  Ah, screen resolution related maybe? (too far apart) I don't get the negative d.o.f. effect. running 1600x1200   ;  I agree with the above poster, that image looks fine and not inside.I think this was from one of those guess the game threads.;  Net Hack   ;  I remember making a program just like that in QBasic... Only mine was in Mode 13 (that is, 320x240), so it was hard to get as smooth of an effect.  Everything was in parallel planes.   