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[Rykuth]

I can see the purple-teal color, but the red-yellow kinda flickers back and forth and when I try to look at it, it changes to yellow.

[Player 3]

I honestly can't tell. Sure, I can blend my eyes to see two images combined, but I see the right colors dominant over the left. No impossible colors; only the teal is visible.

[droqen]

I see it and it is good.

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Core, just because 1/3 of people answered yes...
1/3 of people also said 'what are you talking about?' and maybe some of those people see it, but are not sure if they're really seeing something impossible.

Anyway, what Subtraka said. I really like it.

[paste]

Okay I managed to see it, but one of three things happens: Either it flickers, I see one color dominantly (usually from my right eye), or it looks greyish.

[Core Xii]

Core, just because 1/3 of people answered yes...
1/3 of people also said 'what are you talking about?' and maybe some of those people see it, but are not sure if they're really seeing something impossible.

Well I count them as not seeing it since, well, if you see it, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't think you're seeing an impossible color then the effect isn't working for you as intended (indeed the effects seem to vary from brain to brain).

If I stare at the teal-purple for long, it "settles" into gray. I wonder if I could combat that by switching the colors periodically...

[rogerlevy]

I instantly went into an epileptic fit and knocked over an expensive vase from rolling around too hard.

[Hangedman]

Please tell me you're making a stereogram rogue.

I'm one of those lucky people who can do 'snake-eyes', which is like the opposite of crossing your eyes and involves forcing your vision together without actually staring at your nose etc.
Makes stereograms instantly work for me.

Edit: apparently it's called binocular fusion. It involves splitting vision naturally into two parts and overlapping the resulting afterimage. Most people can do it in childhood and lose the ability later.
Can anyone else here still do it? I haven't even thought about it in a long time.

[droqen]

Hangedman, I can do it too. I never stopped screwing around with splitting things with my eyes like I did as a child, so I guess I just never lost the ability?

I wish I could do it further, but I guess I can do it pretty well at the moment!

[TheLastBanana]

I can cross my eyes without staring at my nose or anything, although I don't think that's the same thing. I can part my eyes in the other direction, too, but I can't do it very far - just far enough to cross the two images in the OP, but I have to concentrate a fair amount to keep it like that.

[Filth]

For me they alternate between flickering, seeing only one colour and a weird
'both at the same time' effect, I can't get the blend thing at all.
Interesting how the squares end up being purple and the *'s teal.

One of my 'dream projects' is a game which would play with nonidentical stereograms like this.

[moi]

I don't think it is really possible to blend those two colors because the light/contrast information is too dissimilar between the two and the light/contrast information is predominent over the color information in our vision. So the mind is forced into discriminate mode.

[Hangedman]

Do they have the same Value and Saturation? Cause that might help a bit

[thedaemon]

Fixed.

[AndyKorth]

I can't really consistently do stereograms or magic eye puzzles

[Blue]

I can't do crosseyed stuff at all, it seens! I decided to try to separate the image in 2 and animate them with 1 frame of pause and it worked, or so I think. Not sure if what I am seeing is red-yellow or just orange. Pretty ballin' though.

[Dataflashsabot]

I have never been able to see these things, ever.

[gimymblert]

This is the next 3DS visual gimmick

[droqen]

I hope so.

[AndrewFM]

For me they alternate between flickering, seeing only one colour and a weird
'both at the same time' effect, I can't get the blend thing at all.
Interesting how the squares end up being purple and the *'s teal.

One of my 'dream projects' is a game which would play with nonidentical stereograms like this.

Yeah, I get this. If I focus on a specific point in the image, and don't let my eyes move from that spot, they eventually settle to a single solid color. It's not a blend of the two colors, just one of the original colors.

However, if I move my eyes around the image, I get the flickering effect.

[moi]

This is the next 3DS visual gimmick

Actually the real 3Ds has only 256 colors, they can fake 56026 colors using this technique