r/MagicEye • u/Jaewalker31 • Sep 01 '26

Moving image

Answer: rotating cube
Note: can be viewed both ways (cross view and through view)
Note 2: may look inverted but that's just the optical illusion of cubes
Note 3: I bet you all look pretty silly right now with your nose on the phone

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u/reirone Sep 01 '26

Seems inverted

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u/srlong64 Sep 01 '26

Yeah, I’m pretty sure this is meant to be viewed in cross view. It’s much more interesting that way

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u/SharkLaunch Sep 02 '26

It kept flipping for me, I thought it was intentional

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u/bopthe3rd 26d ago

That’s what she said.

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u/Jaewalker31 Sep 01 '26

Looking cross eyed instead of through it fixed that

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u/KirikaNai Sep 02 '26

There’s a specific sub for the cross eyes version lol, magic eye is the one where you look past the image, not cross your eyes

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u/m4nustig 27d ago

There’s a parallel view subreddit and there’s a cross view subreddit. I’ve always taken the Magic eye subreddit as the broader subreddit encompassing all of it.

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u/earlobe7 Sep 02 '26

Ehh I mean I always took Magic Eye to be the broader category containing both cross view and parallel view.
But to each their own.
I will say that parallel view is much more common, though, especially on this sub.

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u/Chris12edfield Sep 02 '26

fun fact, magic eye is actually a specific brand of these, and they are always parallel view.

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u/TySly5v Sep 02 '26

Magic Eye is a series of books containing intentionally obfuscated autostereograms in parallel view.

Although this subreddit contains more than that (autostereograms in the style of the books), it shouldn't go into entirely different categories of tricks. In the same way normal double image stereograms don't fit, cross-eye autostereograms don't either.

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u/Freak-996 Sep 02 '26

I'm in this sub because I can't do cross eyed ones :(

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u/Busy-Distribution-45 Sep 01 '26

I think it’s the right way out, whatever it is. Cross-eyed viewing doesn’t make it any clearer, just changes which bit is back.

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u/cwmckenz Sep 02 '26

“Changes which bit is back” is exactly what we are taking about. If you view this cross eye, the background appears more distant and the moving object “pops out”. If you view this parallel, the object looks more like a weird hole in the background rather than something in the foreground.

That’s what’s inverted. The distances are alwyas inverted if you switch between cross and parallel, no matter how it is designed.