We try to keep Magic Eye 3D artwork as magical as possible." But it turns out that this wasn't always the case, or at least not completely. In the excellent video above, ...

On Wednesday, Magic Eye, those tricky 2D patterns with the 3D images hidden inside, turns 15. And we couldn’t in good conscience throw Waldo a party without at least mentioning Magic Eye.

The Magic Eye 3D illusions were based on principles that stretched as far back as 1828, when English physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone invented a device called the stereoscope that could merge two ...

Technically called "autostereograms," Magic Eye pictures became popular in 1959, when psychologist Bela Julesz invented them. His goal? To examine how people can see in 3D. He used a pretty basic ...

MAGIC EYE® 3D INSTRUCTIONS: Place your nose close to your viewing device until the Magic Eye Image is blurry. Stare far beyond the image, as if you are looking at a sunset.

That’s because the illusion is an autostereogram, “two-dimensional (2D) images with repeating patterns that hide an underlying three-dimensional (3D) image,” according to Vision and Eye Health.

Magic Eye tubes were popular as tuning guides on old-school radio gear. However, the tubes, the 6U5 model in particular, have become rare and remarkably hard to come by of late.

A clever deviantART user called 3Dimka has created a magic eye 3D tetris, which is fully playable – if not a little tricky to begin with. You can move your tetris blocks with the arrows on your ...