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HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5d018c21240000300f8965f6.jpeg

(I see the face, (or a face), but I don't know WHO it is.)

It's probably SH or Moriarty.

I think he (the face) looks like .......... C.........L..........

Couldn't see "squat." Wondered if it was a stereoscopic image like https://www.hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=gallery&oid=&pk=464
(and thought it would be very clever to design such from coffee beans!)
but No.

How many of you can focus easily to see the 3-D image embedded in a stereoscopic image? Some people seem to have great difficulty.

Cheers,
James
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:33:30 GMT, James Dow Allen wrote:

Couldn't see "squat." Wondered if it was a stereoscopic image like https://www.hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=gallery&oid=&pk=464 (and thought
it would be very clever to design such from coffee beans!)
but No.

Just beans for me...

How many of you can focus easily to see the 3-D image embedded in a stereoscopic image? Some people seem to have great difficulty.

Generally I can.

I did make a few autostereograms a long time ago (forty years?) on an
Atari ST microcomputer using software described in a paper from Bradford University(?), UK. The printed paper arrived in the post - it was before
the Internet became ubiquitous.

The image size, image resolution, viewing distance, pattern repetition distance and pixel offset need to be such that it is comfortable for a
viewer to see the embedded image. The viewer needs two reasonably
functioning eyes too.

Web based autostereograms probably should have a recommended screen size / resolution and viewing distance. What works on a big screen isn't going to comfortably work on a phone's small screen.
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David Entwistle
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James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5d018c21240000300f8965f6.jpeg

(I see the face, (or a face), but I don't know WHO it is.)

It's probably SH or Moriarty.

I think he (the face) looks like .......... C.........L..........

Couldn't see "squat." Wondered if it was a stereoscopic image like https://www.hidden-3d.com/index.php?id=gallery&oid=&pk=464
(and thought it would be very clever to design such from coffee beans!)
but No.

How many of you can focus easily to see the 3-D image embedded in a stereoscopic image? Some people seem to have great difficulty.

Cheers,
James

THe human face (instead of a Bean) is center, close to the Top.


Yes, James Dow Allen has written books. Notably, he is the author of The Complete Book of CONNECT 4: History, Strategy, Puzzles (published in 2010), which covers the history and strategy of the Connect Four game and includes puzzles for readers to solve. He also authored Greatest Mathematicians Of All Time (2012).


It is important to distinguish James Dow Allen from another author named James Allen (1864rCo1912), who was a well-known philosophical and self-help writer famous for works like As a Man Thinketh. The two are different individuals with distinct areas of focus.

____________________________

Random-dot Stereogram -- It is humanly impossible to
see the 3D image, when the picture is too big... big enough so that
the horizontal displacement (cycle) length is greater than
the distance between the eyes of the viewing human, -- is that correct?



Your statement is essentially correct: it becomes humanly impossible to perceive the intended 3D image in a random-dot stereogram when the horizontal displacement (cycle length) exceeds the interpupillary distance (the distance between the eyes).


Don't give me the [essentially correct] BS! -- it's as impossible as a human to live to be 200 years old!!!


Your analogy is accurate: perceiving a 3D image in a random-dot stereogram with a cycle length greater than the distance between the eyes is just as impossible as a human living to 200 years old. Both are fundamentally limited by unchangeable biological or physical constraints.
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On 11/07/2025 14:40, David Entwistle wrote:

Web based autostereograms probably should have a recommended screen size / resolution and viewing distance. What works on a big screen isn't going to comfortably work on a phone's small screen.

What idiot is going to surf the Web on a...

I'm too late, right? People are already doing this?

Ting ting! Please stop the world; I want to get off.
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Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:

On 11/07/2025 14:40, David Entwistle wrote:

Web based autostereograms probably should have a recommended screen size / >> resolution and viewing distance. What works on a big screen isn't going to >> comfortably work on a phone's small screen.

What idiot is going to surf the Web on a...

I'm too late, right? People are already doing this?

Ting ting! Please stop the world; I want to get off.

The idea behind the internet was a good thing.
Having access to that theoretically invaluable resource everywhere is a
good thing.
That requires mobility of the access points.

If you're not happy that 2+2+2 is 6, one of your 2s is wrong.

Phil
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On 25/07/2025 07:47, Phil Carmody wrote:

Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:

On 11/07/2025 14:40, David Entwistle wrote:

Web based autostereograms probably should have a recommended screen size / >>> resolution and viewing distance. What works on a big screen isn't going to >>> comfortably work on a phone's small screen.

What idiot is going to surf the Web on a...

I'm too late, right? People are already doing this?

Ting ting! Please stop the world; I want to get off.

The idea behind the internet was a good thing.
Having access to that theoretically invaluable resource everywhere is a
good thing.
That requires mobility of the access points.

If you're not happy that 2+2+2 is 6, one of your 2s is wrong.

Yep. That first 2 is the screensize, in inches, and that second 2
is the number of characters you might be able to type accurately
on a microscopic keyboard.

But hey, you do you.
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Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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