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Magical eye Pictures (Stereograms)

Magic eye picture or stereogram is an optical illusion of depth created from flat, two-dimensional image. Three-dimensional (3D) scene from a two-dimensional image is created only in the human brain. My images are autostereograms where optical illusion of depth can be observed by allowing the eyes to focus behind an image (diverge). ¹

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Picture 8		My friend Ainars have a nice picture of him. I like it a lot so i tried to make a magical view for his picture. You can see original Ainars' portrait at his home page.

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How to see the images. You must try to diverge the eyes or in other words - try to focus your eyes at a plane behind the image. To achieve this you may try the following method: hold the picture in front of the face, with the nose touching the picture. With the picture so close to their eyes, most people cannot focus on the picture. The brain may give up trying to move eye muscles in order to get a clear picture. If you slowly pull back the picture away from the face, while refraining from focusing, at some point the brain will lock onto a pair of patterns and you will see the 3D scene. Another way (which I use) is to relax the eyes. Don't focus on the pattern even when it is not close to your nose. Try to look "through" the pattern. At some moment your eyes will focus on the 3D scene instead of the normal 2D pattern. ¹

My latest magical pictures:

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Picture 20	Picture 21	Picture 22

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Following are my old pictures. The source images for most of these are lost.

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Picture 7	Picture 18	Picture 19

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When you finished looking pictures, go to my Magical eye Maze page and try to solve it.

¹ This text is based on Wikipedia article about stereograms and autostereograms.

None of my Magical eye pictures can be used anywhere (including web pages) without my permissions.

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