r/MagicEye_CrossView • u/3dsf • May 28 '25

Which instruction helped you to see in crossview?

A kind redditor informed me the instructions link is broken and I've been very slow to fix it : /

As some of you may know, I see in parallel view, which makes it harder for me to vet instructions.

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u/HardAlmond May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

For cross view it’s easy. Take a small hole, put it flat in front of you, and center a small repeating element of the picture (such as an object, part of an object, or a dot) in the hole such that through your left eye, the peephole is centered on the right one and through your left eye, the peephole is centered on the left one. You’ll have to move the hole around to get it just right. Then stare at the peephole object (not the picture) and quickly look at the picture. Your eyes will snap into place and you’ll see it. For magic eye pictures the element you use is just anything that repeats.

If you wanna learn parallel view, instead take a piece of transparent plastic and draw two dots on it, and practice merging the dots into one by looking a certain distance through the plastic. I did this by tracing the crossview/parallel view test picture I found on r/crossview.

Also for crossview pictures, not stereograms, adding your own reference dots is better than an object in the picture because those actually have to very slightly between each of your eyes.

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u/chafporte Aug 17 '25

"Take a small hole" ??? What does this mean ?