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Magic Eye is a series of books published by N.E. Thing Enterprises (Renamed in 1996 to Magic Eye Inc.). The books feature autostereograms, which allow people to see 3D images by focusing on 2D patterns. The viewer must diverge his eyes in order to see a hidden 3-dimensional image within the pattern. "Magic Eye" has become somewhat of a genericized trademark, often used to refer to autostereograms of any origin. A random dot autostereogram encodes a 3D scene which can be seen with proper viewing technique. ...
A genericized trademark (Commonwealth English genericised trade mark), sometimes known as a generic trade mark, generic descriptor or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name which is often used as the colloquial description for a particular type of product or service as a result of widespread popular or cultural...
The autostereogram predates the Magic Eye series by several years. Christopher Tyler created the first autostereograms in 1979. The first Magic Eye book, Magic Eye: the 3D Guide was released in 1993. It was soon followed by sequels which were also extremely popular, and the three books spent a total of 34 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Several other books and videos have been released since then, and Magic Eye stereograms have been featured on postcards, mousepads, lunch boxes, and even neckties. Magic Eye stereograms are also featured in a comic syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate which appears weekly in many newspapers around the world and features a stereogram with a hidden image for readers to discover. In 1979, Dr. Christopher Tyler, a student of Bela Julesz and a visual psychophysicist, combined the theories behind single-image wallpaper stereograms and random-dot stereograms to create the first random-dot autostereogram (also known as single-image random-dot stereogram) which allowed the brain to see 3D shapes from...
The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
A sample of various postcards. ...
Optical mouse on a mousepad A mousepad (or mouse mat) is a surface for enhancing the movement of a computer mouse. ...
Lunch box and vacuum bottle owned by Harry S. Truman. ...
Blue necktie. ...
Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company, provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comics, and various other content. ...
The Magic Eye images have a horizontally repeating pattern which differs slightly with each repetition, therefore giving the illusion of depth when each eye focuses on a different part of the pattern. The stereograms were created using a patented process that allows colorful patterns to be used in creating the final images. An illusion is a distortion of a sensory perception. ...
Magic Eye images have also been used by children and adults for science and other purposes. Magic Eye stereograms are frequently used by orthoptists and vision therapists in the treatment of many binocular vision and accommodative disorders [1]. Orthoptics (from the Greek words ortho meaning straight, and optikas meaning vision [1]) is the discipline dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of defective eye coordination, binocular vision, and functional amblyopia by non-medical and non-surgical methods, e. ...
Vision therapy (or visual therapy) is a broadly-defined set of optometric programs related to the improvement of visual health and comfort. ...
Binocular vision is vision in which both eyes are used synchronously to produce a single image. ...
Human eye The Accommodation Reflex is a reflex action of the eye, in response to focusing on a near object, then looking at distant object (and vice versa). ...
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