# Can anyone resolve this Autostereogram (aka "Magic Eye") **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571 "2014-02-18T00:08:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/1 "2014-02-18T00:08:24Z")
I’m usually pretty good at these, but this one is just not working: [http://stereokartinki.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Stereogramma-Test-10.jpg](http://stereokartinki.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Stereogramma-Test-10.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/2 "2014-02-18T00:09:24Z")
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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/3 "2014-02-18T00:14:56Z")
Jeez, what took you so long? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/4 "2014-02-18T00:47:12Z")
It makes a three-point crown in the center. ETA: the focal point is waaaaaaay behind the image, if you follow me. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/5 "2014-02-18T01:33:58Z")
Yes, a simple three-pointed crown. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/6 "2014-02-18T01:52:50Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Yes, a simple three-pointed crown. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/7 "2014-02-18T03:32:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > It makes a three-point crown in the center. > > ETA: the focal point is waaaaaaay behind the image, if you follow me. That actually helped me see it. I guess I can follow you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/8 "2014-02-18T04:07:19Z")
Another way to look at such items is to treat them as “crossed-eye” stereograms. If you do that, it’s fairly easy to see – and it’s easy to see where to line up the two parts. As mentioned above, the two “halves” are very fgar apoarat, more like a crossed-eye stereogram than like a typical “look-=through” autosterogram, which is probably why you had troubvle seeing it. Of course, viewing it in “crossed-eye” fashion gives you an inverted, inside-out “pseudoscopic” image, so the floating three-pointed crown becomes a punched-out crown shape in a flat wall. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/9 "2014-02-18T04:22:41Z")
If you’re having problems with a stereo image then hold down the control key and hit the minus key to reduce it’s size. That makes it easier to relax your eyes far enough apart. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/10 "2014-02-18T04:29:56Z")
Finally got it! Magiver’s trick worked. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/11 "2014-02-18T05:32:24Z")
I think the image has been cropped, plus doesn’t have enough detail in it to work very well. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/12 "2014-02-18T15:59:12Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Jeez, what took you so long? 😛 Sorry about that. Its a bad habit I picked up over the years from watching Jeopardy! during dinner. …and on half days in 1st and 2nd grade over lunch (it was the Art Flemming one). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/13 "2014-02-18T16:05:08Z")
It’s a sailboat. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/14 "2014-02-18T16:55:58Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > It’s a sailboat. It’s a schooner.😉 Yeah, really badly done. The overlap distance is too far and the random pattern at the top only repeats a second time. I had to do cross eyes to see it, and I’m naturally very good at these. (I also wrote a program years ago to make my own.) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/15 "2014-02-18T17:07:38Z")
I see spleen. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/16 "2014-02-18T18:11:11Z")
Dead bunnies. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/17 "2014-02-18T19:57:27Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > It makes a three-point crown in the center. > > ETA: the focal point is waaaaaaay behind the image, if you follow me. Nope. Waaaaay in front! 3-point crown, made entirely with straight lines (7 segments). ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-resolve-this-autostereogram-aka-magic-eye/681571/18 "2014-02-18T22:19:20Z")
> [@Learjeff](#): > > Nope. Waaaaay in front! > > 3-point crown, made entirely with straight lines (7 segments). To me it looks sort of like a dragon lying on its side with its head to the left, but that may just be the texture they used. So I guess I’m willing to buy “crown”.