Re: Do you see what i see?

"Kip Williams" <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> mike weber wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:03:17 +0000 (UTC), goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> (David Goldfarb) wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> WHich make sense, because they were developed to exploit that effect
>
> The technique is handy for "spot the difference" puzzles,

Ah. I thought I was the only one to Spock out that technique!

>or real-life instances of needing to spot differences.

What, like when you're in bed with twins & you want to see if you can 
find a way to tell them apart so you don't accidentally call one by the 
wrong name?

Karl Johanson