Re: Do you see what i see?

"David Goldfarb" <goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> In article <acppv3db6vtvefi9gl22bs8d6g6gvtplo7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> mike weber  <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>For those, if you ever encounter another and it's framed, with glass,.
>>a technique that worked for me (and was the *only* way i could see
>>them right) was to focus on the reflection of something behind me in
>>the glass...
>
> For myself (and I suspect I've posted about this before) I 
> independently
> invented the technique when quite young -- I discovered that if I 
> looked
> at a chain link fence using it, it made the fence seem much closer
> than it really was, which I thought was an interesting illusion.
> Worked on hexagonal bathroom tiles, too.  So when the "Magic Eye"
> stuff came along I was all ready.
>
> I learned to do cross-eye from a book of 3-D pictures, back when I was
> working part time at "The Other Change of Hobbit".  Took me quite a
> while to manage to focus on the picture without losing the eye-cross.

That's the hard part. Try 3D focusing on one, then spining the photo one 
way or the other. The eyes & brain seem to manage to hold the 3D image 
for a few degrees, then loose it.

Karl Johanson