Making auto Stereograms - Magic Eye 3D pictures and games without glasses

Stereograms are pictures that are printed or displayed on 2D surfaces but with a special viewing technique can be visualized in 3D. That includes the technique of combining two images kept side by side to see in 3 D. Here we shall talk about Single Image Stereograms or autostereograms.

The above image has a hidden text in it along with a drawing behind the text. You can view it using the parallel or wall-eyed viewing method.

If you are in India, this paperback book of stereograms will be an excellent gift for a kid.

You should have 2 relatively normal(or corrected with glasses) eyes for stereograms to work.

The trick is to relax your eye muscles so that it focuses beyond the depth of the screen(or printed paper)

Practice so that the two black dots on the top become 4 and then merge the middle 2 to get [3 dots]

Here is a website which will help you to practice that :
http://www.vision3d.com/3views.html
They have various tips and tricks for first timers to get used to parallel-viewing and cross-eyed viewing. Once you get the hang of it once, it should come easily. Like riding a bicycle.

There are also Random Dot Stereograms, Animated Stereograms, ASCII stereograms, and more.
There's also a type of 3D picture called wigglegrams.

This should be easy - a dog made of blocks - like a minecraft dog

This is an instructable to make a quick secret ASCII stereogram message.
There's more :

How to make Kinegram, Moire pattern or Slit Animation with transparencies

Moire animations, also known as slit animations or Kinegrams are Animations that can be printed on paper.
Haven't seen them ? Have a look at this video :

Do you want to make the same ?
It is very simple.
You will need :

• A printer (Inkjet or laser)
• Transparent sheet (If you don't have one lying around, get it from a stationary store)
• Download the files and print

Below are links to the images found in this video so you can print them out and try it yourself. You'll have to print the template onto a transparency. If you have an ink jet printer you have to use a special transparency made specifically for ink jet printers. Laser print works fine with all transparent sheets. When you print the images and the template make sure to print them all at the same size if any of the sizes change the effect will not work.

http://i.imgur.com/CG3bJ29.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/NWQC0jW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/aTl3qur.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3u0oIux.jpg
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http://i.imgur.com/B4HkgO3.jpg

Here are a few more tutorials :
http://giannisarcone.com/Kinegrams.html

OR

http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Kinegram/Kinegram.htm

OR

If you want to make your own animation, and not just print one of the pre-made ones, I recommend this tutorial :
http://www.instructables.com/id/2D-Moire-Slit-Animation/

OR

How to easily create your own animated optical illusions, using the program "Animated Illusion Creator".
Download version 2.0 here: http://www.mediafire.com/?enbgj7kquxh...
If you want to see more examples of it and download some animations to get started, I recommend that you watch this: http://youtu.be/vJpMZ0R89kU

Here is a Kinegram based furniture called Magic Carp-pet

Moving Optical Illusions - Print it out and check

Optical illusions trick your eyes in several ways.

Here are a few optical illusions that will appear to move even though they are not. Trust me, they are NOT GIFs.

Note : Akiyoshi Kitaoka is the leading expert in this field.

And they will work even if you print them out on paper. Trust me, it's true.

Nothing in these images is moving.  Your eyes try to adapt to two different patterns and that makes it seem to move.

Caution: This page just contains works of "anomalous motion illusion", which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you had better leave this page immediately.

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