W ho loves Magic Eye paintings? I remember being a child and standing in front of an art shop window flabbergasted by the effect (and being totally rubbish at it, actually). A new challenge has ...

Magic Eye's granddaddy was the random dot stereogram invented by neuroscientist and psychologist Bela Julesz in 1959 to test people’s ability to see in 3D. Julesz would generate one image of ...

It was Magic Eye. These pictures, known in the vision literature as autostereograms, carry a hidden 3D image, discernible only when the viewer arranges their eyeballs in a particular way.

SCIENTISTS have created a nativity scene so tiny that it fits inside the eye of a needle. The 3D-printed sculpture is invisible to the naked eye and features Mary, Joseph, the Three Kings a camel ...

A music video has revived the genre of the autostereogram, better known under the trademark Magic Eye. Could this most 1990s of optical illusions make a comeback, asks Jon Kelly.