Blue Print for a Stereogram

**handrawn** · 27 January 2021, 05:42 PM

I find it best to defocus my eyes and wait for my brain to see the image - sometimes this is quick, sometimes not.. and it is not a constant for any one image, sometimes an easy one becomes difficult

too close does not work any more than too far away, we are all different in this respect

**pauland** · 27 January 2021, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

I find it best to defocus my eyes and wait for my brain to see the image - sometimes this is quick, sometimes not.. and it is not a constant for any one image, sometimes an easy one becomes difficult

too close does not work any more than too far away, we are all different in this respect

+1

I look at the image but do not attempt to focus - I relax my gaze - after a few moments the image will pop. It's most important not to focus or attempt to concentrate - a bit like daydreaming into the distance.

**handrawn** · 27 January 2021, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by pauland

a bit like daydreaming into the distance.

that I can relate to ...

**gwpriester** · 27 January 2021, 07:08 PM

The main reason why most people cannot see stereogram images, assuming their eyes are reasonably healthy, is they focus directly on the image as they would a printed image or an image on the screen. It is impossible to see a stereogram if you do this. As pointed out, by letting your eyes relax, maybe slightly blurring your vision by getting close to the image then slowly pulling away, the eyes and the brain will diverge the repeating panels into the illusion of 3D. Or something like that.

**Chris M** · 27 January 2021, 09:22 PM

Ludwig van Beethoven, the famous renaissance artist and inventor of 3D painting, stated that it's a scientific fact that hyper intelligent, overly good looking and supremely charming people find it impossible to see the image.
On a side note: Gypsy Joe and myself can't see the images.

**handrawn** · 27 January 2021, 10:07 PM

you sure you don't mean Bullwinkle

**gwpriester** · 28 January 2021, 01:14 AM

Chris and Joe - Do you have reasonably OK eyes? I did have one person ask me if he, with one eye, could see my images, I said no.

But otherwise I have rarely met anyone, charming or otherwise who cannot learn to see stereooptically.

Relax your focus to the point where your vision is slightly blurry. Stare at the attached two dots, full size. Relax your eyes and see if the two dots don't drift together and become three dots.

If you can do this, then you can see stereograms.