HOW TO VIEW 3D IMAGES

Here are a couple of beginning suggestions to make viewing 3D easier:

a. In general, you want bright lighting when you are learning to view 3D illusions.

b. Some people who wear glasses will find it easier to if they take them off as long as they can move close enough to the image to see it clearly.

c. Look straight forward, don’t tilt your head. The concealed 3D is most apparent with your head level.

The only people that cannot see these images are people who are blind or only can see with one eye. A few people with strong stigmatisms or a very dominant eye (where one eye for whatever reason takes in much more visual information than the other) may also have trouble viewing these images. But for the rest of us with anything approaching normal vision (even if you wear glasses) with a little or lots of practice and patience, the 3D hidden in these images can be seen.

Technique One:

One of the best ways to free view (look at these with no special glasses) these images for a beginner is to try this first technique.

Look for your reflection in the shiny cover of this book. This makes the picture go blurry (out of focus) and you might feel like you are starting to se double. Believe it or not this is good. It has to do this no matter what technique you use. The reflection helps you to focus your eyes on something other than the 2D part of the image. If the 2-D surface of the picture is not blurry (slightly out of focus,) the 3-D image will not appear.

Once you have your attention on the reflection, just relax. Sometimes it takes a few minutes but we assure you it is worth your time. You will start to feel something happen. Just keep looking at the reflection, it will blur and the image will start to move oddly. This means your eyes are figuring out how to do this. Just keep looking at you reflection and soon the image will appear.

Technique Two:

Look toward the picture but do not focus on anything. Just kind of give it a blank stare, with no focusing of your eyes on the image. Just look in the direction of the image, then relax. After a bit you will start to “feel” something happen. The image will start to blur, then change and some double vision should occur. When it does just keep relaxing and continue with the blank stare. You eyes will do the rest of the work when you are patient. When the image first comes in it usually is just a piece of it. Continue to do the same relaxed stare and the result will “pop” in. Then you can begin to look around in the image and see more and more of the 3D.

Technique Three:

Place the image one inch in front of your eyes. The image will be totally blurry. This is good. Let your eyes get a little used to it. Then, without changing your focus of your eyes, slowly move the image away from your eyes. Then stop at arm’s length, the image should be blurry, if it is just relax and go with the flow. If it is not and you see the image very clear, start over because you have now focused your eyes on the 2D and this is what we are trying to train you not to do. If this happens just start over again with it so close to your eyes it is completely blurry, then move it away again and just keep staring blankly in the direction of the image. After lots of tries, it should just “pop” in.

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