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Take a look at the picture below:

It's clearly Albert Einstein. If there's a person behind you, about 10 feet away, ask them to name the person in the picture. Failing that, stand about 10 feet back from the image yourself. Weird, or what?

Squint at the picture will reveal it too
great picture!

Darren @ The Magic Attic

A cashier at out local NatWest looks remarkably like that ........

I remember seeing that in New Scientist and being amazed.

brilliant stuff!

EckoZero wrote:I remember seeing that in New Scientist and being amazed.

brilliant stuff!

<slaps forehead> Ah! That's why it looked familiar!

Tomo wrote:

EckoZero wrote:I remember seeing that in New Scientist and being amazed.

brilliant stuff!

<slaps forehead> Ah! That's why it looked familiar!

The current (I believe) Scientific American Reports is dedicated to perception and includes a few variants on this... very fascinating.

at first i wondered why you had a picture of my ex-girlfriend up...

it was only when i started to squint that i realised it wasn't...

That's bizzare but great! How on earth does it actually work?!

Now I feel stupid!
I feel like I used to do when those magic eye posters (or whatever they were called) were popular, couldn't see buggery.
I've been aquinting at it for ages, and it looks the same. Though I am now vaguely making out a mouth where the moustache is...maybe?

AndyRegs wrote:Now I feel stupid!
I feel like I used to do when those magic eye posters (or whatever they were called) were popular, couldn't see buggery.
I've been aquinting at it for ages, and it looks the same. Though I am now vaguely making out a mouth where the moustache is...maybe?

Look at it normally, sat in front of the monitor. Now move back about 10-15 ft. Who is it now?

Can only get back about 6 feet as Im in my study. So Im having to try and squint instead...nothing!

That is great! Cheers.

The Magic Eye posters when they first came out were truly amazing. Once you had the knack, you could see over a dozen levels of depth, holes etc and some very beautiful effects. The posters were so much better than the books because they were bigger and you could really explore them.

Now, it is hard to get other than lumpen heavily-coloured small pictures with not much going for them even when you can see them.

Grand Illusions sell a deck of cards which is marked using the Magic Eye system. Sounds like a good idea but I can't help but wonder how suspicious you would look (not to mention a bit doolally), staring at the backs of these cards like a man - or woman - possessed. Might look a bit like this guy...

somewhere in amongst the unsorted bookmarks in this browser, I have a method for creating ASCII stereograms.