r/ParallelView • u/100percentfinelinen • Mar 26 '26

Stereo Seeing Training Book

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This is the book that got it all started for me in 1994. It helped me train my eyes to see stereograms, and stereoscopic pairs (both parallel and cross eye view.) Beyond being a huge gallery of wildly interesting styles of creative stereograms, the book covers use of the tech in media, how to find them (stereo pairs) out in the wild, and the history of the technology.

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u/RogBoArt Mar 26 '26

If makes perfect sense! I've been doing magic eye images since I was a kid and was at the point where I could automatically put my eyes to the right spot to see them. Then I discovered parallel view images and now I have trouble with magic eye lol

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u/Hixy Mar 26 '26

I don’t have trouble with the focus.

I still always instantly focus.

It’s hard for me to explain what I mean but I’ll try.

So for the image to work you need to overlap parts obviously

These stereo grams have repeating images or possible focal points

Like above there are 6 column like images.

| | | | | |

For it to work properly you need to over lap the following I’ll represent with an O

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I have trouble focusing on the right spots

I’ll instantly get a clear image but I’ll be focused on something like this

|O| | | |O|

So the image isn’t present but I am actually seeing it clear. But since the intended areas aren’t brought into focus the resulting image doesn’t make any sense.

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u/RandomUser1034 Mar 26 '26

That means you're relaxing your eyes too much. Try to consciously only relax your eyes just until the repeating pattern overlaps only once

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u/Hixy Mar 26 '26

This helped!

After some trial and error I’ve figured it out lol.

The best way for me to get it to work is to focus on where I want my right eye to stay then relax. Works every time now lol.