Forget bright colors. What's the best classic pattern?

@Zeusandhera

@nickiwhite

@nickiwhite @toddnet
You gotta take the ‘s’ off of https manually for imgur links. And the junk after the ?

@nickiwhite Sure you can.

@nickiwhite - SOMEthing went wrong.

@mike808

The stuff after .jpg can be kept.

@PlacidPenguin Not if I have to manually enter your busted link. Works fine without it, so not necessary. The ‘s’ definitely breaks it. Probably anti-deep linking to block sites like Meh that Imgur can’t track or serve up ads to.

@mike808

The ‘s’ is the issue. I’m merely saying that the rest can be kept, especially if removing it would result in a smaller image.

@Fuzzalini @nickiwhite

You can never go wrong with plaid

Sure you can.

Q.E.D.

@heartny
Amoebas and their pseudopods.
This design reminds me of Prince Rupert’s drops. Amazing stuff; look it up.

@ruouttaurmind

@ruouttaurmind That’s almost enough to overcome my undying hatred of paisley. Almost.

@mike808 That was so awesome. Made me feel like I ate some mushrooms… I’m dating myself here.

@djslack

I never could solve them. Thankfully, I came across this site last year:

http://magiceye.ecksdee.co.uk

@djslack I love those! I have a couple books of them.

@djslack It’s a schooner.

@ZeroCharisma Hahahaha. You dumb bastard. It’s not a schooner… it’s a Sailboat!

@djslack I saw “I you”…maybe that’s the boat’s name?

@PlacidPenguin that’s pretty awesome. I never thought about the possibility of reversing them in software.

@Raider @ZeroCharisma that kid is on the escalator again!

@djslack

And that’s why I’m the penguin and you’re not.

@djslack @PlacidPenguin Holy shit. I finally figured it out, knowing what it was supposed to look like.

@djslack @PlacidPenguin Nope, lost it again.

@djslack @PlacidPenguin @TheFLP

My brain sux. I went and looked it up. Still can’t see it. Never saw any of these. Even after I knew I was looking for outlines, more or less.

@f00l try different size screens. It’s easier on my phone versus tv. Maybe you’re the opposite? I basically let my eyes blur and possibly go cross-eyed and then they just kind of show up.

@RiotDemon

I just get frustrated with “why am I doing this”?

I did the eye blur thing way back when and saw nothing except the primary image.

And then I gave up on this exercise.

It’s kinda odd because I have a supposed aptitide for “pattern recognition”. (according to testing, I was a grad school volunteer for psych student practice testing torment once.)

“Pattern recognition” can be a conundrum in itself, philosophically vs perceptually. .
“What is a pattern?”, in its most fundamental sense.
We don’t know what other beings can perceive, so we may be leaving almost everything out.

And if we limit “patterns” to that which can be perceived by any mind conceivable to us, we still may be leaving “most” (in the mathematical sense) patterns out.

And those looking to our attempts to delimit or define (in the broadest and most rigorous formal terms, not limited even by a criteria of perceivability) the word “pattern”, we may still be leaving out the vast oceans of “pattern”, due to our own limitations.

Anyway, my supposed aptitude failed me on this instance.

To which I react by turning slightly grouchy.

@f00l

I just get frustrated with “why am I doing this”?

Because optical illusions are weird. Letting my eyes go all funky and then something shows up is kinda fun. Figuring it out is cool.

It’s not always so straight forward. Sometimes my eyes blur and go straight several times before it actually becomes a thing. Then when it actually shows up, it feels like my eyes are mostly normal again and I can look around the 3d image.

@djslack @fool The 3d imagery “hidden” in the magic eye stereoscopes always came pretty easily to me. I guess for that reason, using the terminology to “solve” them seems odd to me.

I know the following trick doesn’t help with online images, but if you ever have the chance to see one of these framed and under glass, concentrate on your reflection in the glass and try to ignore the image itself. Re-calibrating your focal point in this manner usually will make the 3d image appear. Once you have trained your eyes to do this, you should be able to recognize them almost immediately, even without the benefit of the glass.

@f00l @RiotDemon I don’t know if pattern recognition figures into this much. It’s more about contorting your eyes until your depth perception sees the stereoscopic effect.

A “crosseyed” version would be easier to see (if you can cross your eyes, that is). Looking at this one with my eyes crossing, I can home in on it. But it’s an inverted image — background is foreground and vice versa — so it’s harder to make sense of it.

Here’s an example that works for me: http://www.hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=gallery&oid=&pk=-277&gallery=crosseyed

Parallel viewing is way harder, for me at least.

@RiotDemon @TheFLP

Ok, now perhaps I have an explanation for why I can’t see the secondary image.

I have one nearsighted eye and one farsighted one.

Letting my eyes go blurry does not change that.

I read with one eye. See distance with the other. In each case I use the other eye just for backup and depth confirmation.

I’ve been this way since I first had an eye test in elementary school. Changing back and forth is seamless and something I’m not usually aware of, tho I can force awareness.

Vision in both is not far off normal, but enough.

@TheFLP that is interesting. The image does something, but looks like jibberish. Will have to try again later.

@f00l never really thought about why people couldn’t see them. Read this article with interesting stuff. It explains how they work, kinda.

https://thebrag.com/why-cant-some-people-see-magic-eye-pictures-an-investigation/

@f00l That’s an interesting visual predicament. I’m guessing that the old Viewmaster reels don’t do much for you either?

@Calabama I feel if I were able to see more of the picture, he’d have a 3 iron in his hands and is surveying his shot.

@rtjhnstn You know it!

@rtjhnstn and, because of the stadium lights in the background, an official yelling “wtf! this isn’t a golf course!”

@Zebra
Hello, ladies.

@simplersimon I debated saying blood spatter, but decided I didn’t want people to think I’m a serial killer. Though now I wish I’d said "aerial photography of a blade runner city.

@simplersimon

You don’t have to be a serial killer to like a good blood splatter.

@simplersimon

@dannybeans that shirt is amazing