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Last year was a great year for my stereogram images with two books published in England, and three magazines and two Reader's Digest-sized compleations published in Japan. (This started out as a hobby!).
Here is my first project for 2005. The actual image is 8 x 8 and will be used for a mouse pad.
I suspect the people who commissioned the stereogram are going to give it to their employees as a reminder of how to work.
Can you see the hidden image?
Gary
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Last year was a great year for my stereogram images with two books published in England, and three magazines and two Reader's Digest-sized compleations published in Japan. (This started out as a hobby!).
Here is my first project for 2005. The actual image is 8 x 8 and will be used for a mouse pad.
I suspect the people who commissioned the stereogram are going to give it to their employees as a reminder of how to work.
Can you see the hidden image?
Gary
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Now this one was quite hard to focus on.. ;-)) (pun intended)
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Inspiring..now the employees can stare at there mousepads instead of the Monitor!Great job Gary, I didn't think stereograms were still popular.
Jim
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I could never see anything in a sterogram. yours is no different. Pretty squiggles tho.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I didn't think stereograms were still popular. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
To quote Monty Python, devestatingly popular :-)
The small book I did for Arcturus in the UK is on its second printing and the small Reader's Digest sized Japanese compellations are on about the 5th reprint.
Gary
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Gary will you tell us what it is? I can't see anything http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
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Great stereogram, Gary. The text comes into focus http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif almost immediately. Then the background slowly reveals itself. I really like the way the 'diamond' rises toward the text but remains behind it. The stereo image has that warm fuzzy look of knitting, more so than the obvious flat image.
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OK, Is there a trick to looking at these so that one can see more than just two colours of squiggles (pretty though they are)? I've tried squinting but cannot tell what I am supposed to see. HELP!
Carol Leather
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Hi Carol,
Basically it's focusing on a point beyond the image. "How do I see them" contains a more details explanation.
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Hi,
I used to play with creating them myself actually when they first came out, had a bout three different programs for creating them. I ran across one that really impressed me (done at a University I think) it was an actual picture of a park bench in a park., but when you 'focused' as a stereogram on the bench was a man with his dog at his feet..I was totally awe struck. then I got into 3D stuff (with red and blue glasses)and found you could create them also using an image editing program and separating the channels then off-setting the red and blue channels a couple of pixels and reconstructing the image back to normal.
Just a note and some rambling info.
Jim
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i think i am going blind http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
really i can't get anything !!!!!
Help is needed
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Gary, how did you get the very smooth look to the background shape? Did you use a fill, blend, or contour? I usually get more of stairstep effect.
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Mac, do you have any link to what you're talking about, I would be most interested in seeing these things in action.... I like optical illusion stuff (Actually they are GREAT idea for hidden commercial I've been working on).
My idea is to create an eye catching image (naked woman for example - always does the trick http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif ) and then apply text so your eye doesn't really focus on it, but on the womans image instead, so that it gets inside your subconsciousness (damn if I can spell that http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
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By the way, what do you think of my booties commercial? I made an example for a magazine my friend publishes...
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I saw it! I SAW IT! WOW!
I've never managed to see one of these before. Thanks Soquili for the tips. I found getting my face really close to the screen, going cross eyed and then moving slowly backwards made it suddenly pop out of the screen.
Excellent. I want more!!!!!!
Carol Leather
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Well Availor no I don't but i'm sure if you can find an stereogram site there would be links from there. Don't forget this was quite some time ago at least 6-7 years now. Maybe I shouldn't have brought it up I'm showing my age.If I run across it I will surely post it I could have it stuffed away on a floppy.
Jim
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What a great idea for a mouse pad!
Wonderful job Gary, I love these things.
Carol-- Gary has done a tutorial on stereograms that is just great, give it a try, you'll be impressed.
tim
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Well Availor I found the source image on the net with the link here it is and here is the picture I mentioned
StereBench
Jim
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Thanks alot Mac. unfortunately, I couldn't see anything in these stereograms http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
What are you supposed to be seeing in the bench stereogram? A dog you said? I see a bench lol
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Here's something I made inspired by Gary's bottle tutorial... just for showoff... made by Xara and photoshop
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There is a man behind the bench and a puppy.
Jim
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Here is a link to the Stereogram Tutorial.
Gary
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I have enough trouble with my eyes. Do not need anything else to hurt them... I stick to seeing pretty squiggles.
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Wow, I had a go at your tut Gary. Great stuff. Here is my attempt.
Carol Leather
http://www.x-calibredesigns.co.uk/pirc/stereo.jpg
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Great stereogram Gary http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif You too Carol ... nice job on the tut!
John,
My eyes are probably worse than yours. I can only see them by waving a finger at arms length in front of the image and slowly shifting my focus from the tip of my finger to the image and back. If I take my finger out of the field of view I lose the effect. Must be the glasses http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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I have to warn you Carol, these things are adicting. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
John and others who are having trouble seeing the hidden image, here is an excercise to demonstrate how to see the images.
Stare at the two black circles for a while. But pretend you are not looking at the circles but at something in the distance behind them.
Eventually, your brain will interpolate a third circle inbetween. Once this happens, you have experienced the technique for looking at a stereogram.
Anyone interested in seeing more stereograms, Click here.. This is a gallery on Chris Dickman's site were Gene Levine, the real master of stereograms, and myself have a gallery of images.
Gary
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Sorry, pretty squiggles. Maybe I need something more than bifocals... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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I'm depressed again...
I can't do it! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif The two circles works right away, but anything else... *sigh* I get too distacted by other cool shapes I see and I loose focus (or is it gain focus?) http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
How about posting a simple clear stereogram - and what it's hidden there?! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
Perhaps my brain can be fooled by cheap trickery? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
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Quit pulling our leg, Risto. I think you saw Gary's stereogram just fine. You used the word twice in one of your sentences.
My technique is to press your face closely to the monitor and slowly move back. At some distance, the image just pops out of the background.
Great fun. I like.
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Cheer up Risto
Attached is the hidden image "depth map" which the software uses to create the hidden 3D image.
The software recognizes 255 grayscale shades with white coming out the most and black going back the most and the other shades in-between.
As you can see the hidden shapes are very simple, a circle with a circular fill and with a Profile 2 profile applied to the fill which makes the 3D sphere more round, and the text in white to come out the most.
As simple as this is, it took me the better part of half a day of experimenting to get the text to read clearly, which was what the client had requested. Text is stereograms is always difficult but placing the text over the sphere seemed to work best.
Gary
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Grafixman: Quit pulling our leg, Risto. I think you saw Gary's stereogram just fine.
--- No, I really didn't! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif And I still can't... Freaky though! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif But hey, that makes Gary's stereogram even more interesting for the ones that do get it after much pain and agony (and late hours at the office...) http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Gary, thanks for posting the "depth" image! Unfortunately it didn't help...
I have really poor eyesight, maybe that's what's messing with me? But I also get easily distracted by other shapes I see... I didn't see "focus" but I did see:
- a Viking wrestling with the skull of a dragon
- something that looked like a banana
- a man with a big watch where his stomache would be
But that's probably just me...
Oh, well... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
One day... One day...
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You must be psychic then. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif You're seeing things without seeing them. As for the other images, I think you focused too deeply .
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"You must be psychic then." - Grafixman
You spelled it wrong. In Risto's case, it's spelled pyscho... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
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Just a suggestion, but I cannot get those stereograms that are created in Diverging mode, but have no trouble at all with the Converging kind. Since software like GP Popout generally offer both modes, Gary's depth file could be re-rendered in Converging mode, and thus another chunk of the population, well, at least one http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif could enjoy the view.
Meanwhile here is a Converging type stereogram based on Gary's excellent tutorial
Mike Sims
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I learned some time ago that people who see the image as going away instead of popping out are viewing the image with the crossed eyes method.
So if I could just get my eyes to cross and focus on Mike's image I suspect the image would come forward.
OK Yep it works. Now I see what looks like 4 candy canes roated 90 degrees each.
Now I have to get my eyes to uncross http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif My mom always said this would happen.
Gary
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Mike,
Thank you so much! Very cool. That was the easiest I have ever had seeing one of these. And I was able to hold it so much longer too. I almost got all the way back to a normal sitting position.
dafipp
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Mike,
That was the first stereogram I've looked at in the past few days (I've been looking at several) that popped out ... instead of went in ... and I didn't have to hold my finger in front of it to "keep" the image. Must have something to do with my near-sightedness and the "CONVERGING" option you mentioned http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
-Ed.
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WOW ... Crossing your eyes DOES work ... why is the room spinning http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif
Gary,
All of yours I have looked at are INNies instead of OUTies ... are they supposed to be? or is it just ME.