Your camera can take 3D photos. Your screen can display 3D photos.

Was going to say the same thing. Presenting stereo pairs has a lot of layout and resolution issues to say nothing of the fact that some people have stereo blindness to varying degrees (lazy eye is an extreme case). The author is correct that stereo depth can greatly enhance an image, but a wigglegram does this at full resolution with no visual puzzle solving.

I did this on a school project back in the 90's, with a structure of quinol clathrate that was completely wrong but very pretty. I was very into povray at the time. My chemistry teacher didn't quite know what to make of it...

There's a whole bunch of these over at https://old.reddit.com/r/wigglegrams/ if you want more

> You can do this by holding your finger substantially in front of the image, and focusing solely on the finger with your eyes, while turning your mind’s attention to the image behind it while keeping your eyes still.

This tip in the article helped me a lot, it's much easier to cross your eyes further with something to actually focus on

It's helpful if you can smoothly zoom in on the images. Start zoomed out far enough that you can easily see the effect, and then slowly enlarge the images. Your brain will work to keep them in focus.

I believe the author switched left and right. Because the inverse ones at the bottom work fine

Yes, making them smaller certainly helps.

Great! I wrote this in the hopes that more people would start making them, because I love them.

I have always had trouble with magic-eye pictures - I am told my eyes are quite different shapes. I can see stereograms with some effort.

I believe that there is a small percentage of the population for whom stereoscopic images (including 3d films) just don't work at all. Either they lack the ability to perceive depth directly or their brains aren't fooled by images with no parallax relative to their eye movements. I don't have any cites for this though.

Have you tried using pipes/kitchen towel rolls?

As in, try doing something like this:

1. Zoom the images small enough to be almost parallel to your eyes.

2. Make a binocular out of used kitchen rolls.

3. Each side should look at exactly one of the images

It should just work. Both images should converge like they do in a binocular.

(you can then try removing this DIY binocular suddenly and see if you can maintain focus)

There are two communities, you need to find out which one you belong to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossView

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParallelView

There is a test image you can try:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fg...

Whichever "view" looks to be closer is the one you should use.

Amblyopia and monocular diplopia here. No way I can see these, my brain won't let me.

It took me a while too. Especially those double images that look totally contorted and only come out when you relax your focus. It took ages but suddenly they popped and now i can do them every time. Once they came through they were crystal clear.

The trick for me was to completely cross my eyes and produce the double images, then slowly uncross/cross them until I could start to see the image, which eventually clears up.

I am with you. I could also never see the hidden image things. Been trying for 40 years.

Do you manage to align the two small white squares above each picture so they are on top of each other?

I had the same book - the one with the black border? :) There was a dolphin or something, right? So long ago, can barely remember...

The water eye thing only happens to me if I cross my eyes and focus before the picture and not behind the picture. The latter takes some time to let the eyes relax, but its much more natural.

I only learned somewhat recently that a lot of (or all?) Magic Eyes are meant to be parallel viewed instead of cross eyed. The difference was pretty impressive the first time I saw one correctly.

I seem to recall that Magic Eye pictures had you decross your eyes, so you were looking past the page. It was a bit harder to do.

If you stitch the photos together seamlessly, you can display them on a VR headset in a really natural way. I take stereo images in landscape mode, stitch them together top/bottom, and then enjoy them on my Quest 2 using the Pigasus media player.

If you use a 180° fisheye lens, you can immerse yourself in the scene. just make sure to keep the camera perfectly level, or you'll end up making yourself sick if you try to view the images unadjusted.

"Wow, a sailboat!"

Yes, the ones at the bottom, in the "Parallel View" section are designed to be viewed the other way.