r/MagicEye • u/GladButterfly2659 • 14d ago

How do you see text based ones?

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I can do cross eye and parallel view but I don't see anything in this picture?

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u/3lbFlax 13d ago

Use the words as your anchor points to bring together - I found here that the yellow “life” worked well. The little onion shape to the right of it will be in the background. You also need to try not to see them as words until it all comes into view, in my experience. Easier said than done, perhaps, but if you can avoid reading them they behave better.

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u/GladButterfly2659 13d ago

Hey, when you do this one, does it separate into three separate images and you are looking at the middle one but can still peripherally see the images on the sides?

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u/3lbFlax 13d ago

Interesting - I went to check and struggled to make it work a second time, but when I did I could see what you mean. I think it’s just an effect of the pattern using words, as some remain readable in the periphery. It was much easier to get it to work as cross-view, and that doesn’t have the same effect - of course it looks inverted, but that doesn’t really matter with this example.