Do you remember Magic Eye?

chriskim
2 min readJun 30, 2023

Do you remember Magic Eye, which was famous in the 90's?
If you see “I love you honey” in the picture above, you must have seen Magic Eye in the past.^^

I made it myself. https://www.easystereogrambuilder.com/
You can make it easily by going here.

When I went to the namu wiki, there was an explanation like this.

A three-dimensional video picture that was popular in the 1990s. The actual name is Autostereogram, and Magic Eye is the name of the book that published it, and belongs to the common noun of a trademark .

  • Parallelism: Focus your eyes farther away (behind) the picture. A painting that is wider than the distance between the two eyes cannot be seen in three dimensions.
  • Cross method: Focus the eyes between the picture and the eyes (in front). If you do this, your eyes will of course cross your arms . It is called the crossing method because it crosses the line of sight of both eyes. No matter how wide the picture is, you can see it in three dimensions. It is possible to see even a large picture that cannot be handled simply by squinting your eyes, if you step back and bring it into your field of vision. (Even if it’s not a picture, it’s like overlapping two telephone poles in the distance)

I looked it up on Naver and found that it is good for relieving eye fatigue, activating the brain, and improving eyesight because it plays a role in relaxing the muscles of the eyes.

It would be nice to write a secret letter using Magic Eye or make a cute love confession.
Above all, why don’t you try it once for your eye muscles?

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