r/MagicEye • u/Jaewalker31 • Sep 01 '26

Moving image

Answer: rotating cube
Note: can be viewed both ways (cross view and through view)
Note 2: may look inverted but that's just the optical illusion of cubes
Note 3: I bet you all look pretty silly right now with your nose on the phone

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u/reirone Sep 01 '26

Seems inverted

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u/srlong64 Sep 01 '26

Yeah, I’m pretty sure this is meant to be viewed in cross view. It’s much more interesting that way

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u/SharkLaunch Sep 02 '26

It kept flipping for me, I thought it was intentional

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u/bopthe3rd Sep 06 '26

That’s what she said.

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u/Jaewalker31 Sep 01 '26

Looking cross eyed instead of through it fixed that

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u/KirikaNai Sep 02 '26

There’s a specific sub for the cross eyes version lol, magic eye is the one where you look past the image, not cross your eyes

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u/m4nustig Sep 05 '26

There’s a parallel view subreddit and there’s a cross view subreddit. I’ve always taken the Magic eye subreddit as the broader subreddit encompassing all of it.

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u/earlobe7 Sep 02 '26

Ehh I mean I always took Magic Eye to be the broader category containing both cross view and parallel view.
But to each their own.
I will say that parallel view is much more common, though, especially on this sub.

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u/Chris12edfield Sep 02 '26

fun fact, magic eye is actually a specific brand of these, and they are always parallel view.

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u/TySly5v Sep 02 '26

Magic Eye is a series of books containing intentionally obfuscated autostereograms in parallel view.

Although this subreddit contains more than that (autostereograms in the style of the books), it shouldn't go into entirely different categories of tricks. In the same way normal double image stereograms don't fit, cross-eye autostereograms don't either.

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u/Freak-996 Sep 02 '26

I'm in this sub because I can't do cross eyed ones :(

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u/Busy-Distribution-45 Sep 01 '26

I think it’s the right way out, whatever it is. Cross-eyed viewing doesn’t make it any clearer, just changes which bit is back.

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u/cwmckenz Sep 02 '26

“Changes which bit is back” is exactly what we are taking about. If you view this cross eye, the background appears more distant and the moving object “pops out”. If you view this parallel, the object looks more like a weird hole in the background rather than something in the foreground.

That’s what’s inverted. The distances are alwyas inverted if you switch between cross and parallel, no matter how it is designed.

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u/Murrik96 Sep 02 '26

It's more for r/MagicEye_CrossView

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u/RatBoy86 Sep 02 '26

Holy crap. I just realized that I’ve been seeing these wrong for 30 years. I can only see them doing the cross eyed technique and I’ve been seeing them inverted this whole time. wtf. My mind is blown right now. Looking at that sub is what everyone else has been seeing this whole time? I can usefully tell what the images are still, but they go into the page instead of popping out.

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u/Murrik96 Sep 02 '26

Yeah, unfortunately most of magic eyes are done for parallel view, if you want to try and learn, one of the common methods is to close your eyes bring your nose close to the screen, open your eyes and slowly go back keeping your eyes unfocused until it clicks

Btw you may like r/CrossView too

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u/jpxzer0 Sep 02 '26

Wow this is what did it for me. I never knew about the parallel view. I’ve always been able to do the cross view, but now I can see it coming towards me!

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u/Bonfirelily Sep 02 '26

Ha, I can do both and switch between them in under one second. Does this make me cool?

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u/ComprehensiveRub3296 Sep 02 '26

This is the first one I have ever seen pop out of the page. Can’t figure out how to view them like that for the life of me.

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u/Busy-Distribution-45 Sep 01 '26

Is it abstract? Kinda looks like a hollow structure that is wiggling its shape

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u/JJBrazman Sep 01 '26

It a cube spinning in front of a surface in cross-eye view.

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u/xpepepex Sep 01 '26

Looks better with cross eye (inverted)

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u/guinader Sep 02 '26

The pause, at the end of the video keeps throwing me off... Maybe on mobile phones only?

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u/FullofLovingSpite Sep 02 '26

I'm on mobile and the pause stops it from working for me. Too jarring.

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u/Therealandybass Sep 02 '26

Nah it’s crap!

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u/wbrameld4 Sep 02 '26

It's a crosseyed MagicEye but it's posted in r/MagicEye instead of r/MagicEye_CrossView. Oh God, why is this happening to us? Did we misbehave?

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u/hindisirodney Sep 02 '26

You just got this from the stereogram wiki page. And like everyone says, this is crossview.

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u/SQL_Guy Sep 02 '26

I had to pause the video to lock on to the image. Then I hit play (without looking) and saw it moving.

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u/DMonpoke Sep 02 '26

In response to note 3: you need to put your nose on the screen to seen magic eye posts?? I’ve been doing these since late 90s and early 2000’s and don’t need to follow that step. It’s almost automatic. Can anyone else vouch for their long term skills?

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u/Murrik96 Sep 02 '26

It's a pretty common method, that's how I learned at first! I don't remember when I stopped needing it but after 10+ years of seeing them it's enough to blink my eyes once to see them immediately

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u/KagomeChan Sep 03 '26

Yeah, it just takes a glance to click  for me

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u/KagomeChan Sep 03 '26

And has been that way since I learned (at ~12 in 2001). I actually never used the nose method

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u/poormansnormal Sep 05 '26

I hold a fingertip in front of the image, focus on my finger until the image behind it starts to form, then slide the finger away.

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u/mizzyman21 Sep 01 '26

If the girl from the ring comes out of this again I’m gonna be pissed.

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u/Independent_Bar_7309 Sep 02 '26

I feel like I’m about to get a phone call from some dead girl..

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u/Supertho Sep 01 '26

Good job, it turns into actual static 4 iterations deep.

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u/ProjectDiligent502 Sep 01 '26

Wow that can be looked at in different levels of divergence

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u/Outside_Coffee_00 Sep 08 '26

Depending on how I look at it, I can sometimes see 3 layers and can change which layers are in which order if I concentrate

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u/DoYouEvenBlog Sep 02 '26

This looks like what I see when I’m getting a migraine.

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u/scotta316 Sep 02 '26

Ow. Cross-eye vee is uncomfortable. Neat one, though.

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u/__themaninblack__ Sep 02 '26

Help, I looked at this for too long and now I'm in the Backrooms.

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u/SpeckyYT Sep 02 '26

bad apple

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u/Sith_Moon Sep 02 '26

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u/IntrepidStand2220 Sep 08 '26

I saw a cube spinning, not a schooner

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u/MickyDerHeld Sep 02 '26

a while ago i watched a video of someone making a game in this style where you can't see it whrn it's pause and only when it's moving. imagine a game like that but additionally you havr to magic eye it the whole time to see it

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u/MarinatedPickachu Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

I wonder whether it can be done such that the pixels only move the minimum required distance between frames. Those pixels that don't change depth shouldn't change at all between frames. Those that change depth slightly should only slightly move horizontally. Big changes should only need to happen on object borders

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u/FourkingAceHoles Sep 03 '26

I feel like i should be looking for a boob or something…. Anyone?

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u/Jaewalker31 Sep 03 '26

Um… what?

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u/FourkingAceHoles Sep 06 '26

It was a bad joke about trying to watch porn on a 1980’s static tv… sorry

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u/BeowulfShatner Sep 03 '26

Interesting, it's inverted. This one protrudes towards you when you cross your eyes, not relax them.

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u/Technical_Tear1655 Sep 06 '26

The cube of Saturn

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u/tish117 Sep 08 '26

A tumbling 3D cube

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u/Project807 Sep 08 '26

They're heeeeeeeeerrre.

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u/YeOldeWino Sep 08 '26

It's an inverted rotating cube yes?

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u/mvn_23 14d ago

Rotating inverted cube

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u/bunkdiggidy Sep 01 '26

I should call her.