Magic Eye! Can You See the 3D Image?

Back in the early 90's I remember being introduced to the Magic Eye.  It is a patterned design which you must relax your eyes and stare at in order to see the picture lurking within.  So when I heard about this as I child, I begged my mother to buy me a book through Scholastic (don't know if they are still around).  Our family was always strapped for cash but luckily my mom agreed to buy me this book which cost around $30, which back then, was pretty pricey for a children's book.  And so I waited patiently and at the end of the month my book arrived.  I was ecstatic!  But sooner could you say Magic Eye and I had gone through the entire book already.  Recently I stumbled upon this topic with a friend and decided to scour the Internet for some Magic Eye images (which still work even though its on a computer screen).  But first a bit of history....

The publisher of Magic Eye was N.E. Thing Enterprises which later renamed itself to Magic Eye Inc.  Magic eye came out in the early 90's but had been produced far earlier in time by Christopher Tyler.  Tyler produced the first black and white autostereogram in 1979 through the assistance of computer programmers.  What is Magic Eye?  It is a 2 dimensional pattern with random dot autostereograms that allow people to see 3 dimension objects by staring at a 2 dimension pattern.  Ready for a few?

Here are a few tips:  Relax your eyes as if you were staring at something for a length of time.  Diverge or almost unintentionally cross your eyes.  This will happen naturally when your eyes are relaxed and you are staring/gazing.  Focus on the center of the pattern.  Time to try it out!

***Note:  I am very good at these, it almost comes naturally so I posted all of the answers at the end of all of the images.***

 

I hope you all could see the images or at least had fun trying.  Please share with others as images such as these always makes a persons day.  Below are the answers in order of the pictures:

1.  The Planet Saturn
2.  Pirate Ship
3.  A Pot
4.  Shark
5.  Bunny
6.  Horse
7.  Balls of Candy
8.  A Heart
9.  A Duck
10.  Dinosaur
11.  A Rose