

I was in high school reading OMNI magazine (add that to my nerd cred), and I came across this article about a man named Dan Dyckman who developed software to make your own single image random dot stereograms. It was a very basic 3D stereogram.įast forward several years to November, 1991. I used to reach up and try to touch them, and the illusion would break as my fingers passed through them. Where the holes in the board weren’t completely aligned, some dots floated closer to me than the rest. I found that I could see the pattern clearly even though my eyes were focused on a different plane, and the dots appeared to float in space between me and the top bunk. The views from my eyes would diverge, causing double vision, until the pattern of holes overlapped again. Priester, Gene Levine Edition, illustrated Publisher, Chartwell Books, 2005 ISBN, 0785820558. As I lay in bed staring up at those dots, I’d let my eyes relax. Title, Eye Tricks: Incredible 3D Stereograms Authors, Gary W. How many books can make that claim Here's why this book can. It's actually good for you, even if you don't read any of its words at all. Looking at the 3D stereogram images in this e-book is more than just fun and fascinating. The wood panels that supported the top mattress had a grid of holes like peg board. Well, at least it is capable of displaying 3D autostereograms, which look like they're popping out of the page at you. I used to sleep on the bottom bunk of a bed, and would stare up at the underside of the top bunk. But I accidentally discovered stereograms on my own as a little kid right around the same time. Stereograms were invented by a neuroscientist named Christopher Tyler in 1979.
