ASCII Stereogram - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

05-16-2005, 09:47 AM

Code:

lude the as include the as include the as include the as include the as include
ute a right minute a right minute a right minute a right minute a right minute
wn year left down year left down year left down year left down year left down y
mpiler error compiler error compiler error compiler error compiler error compil
econd month i second month i second month i second month i second month i secon
using face her using face her using face her using face her using face her usin
they stop tart they stop tart the stop start the stop start the stop start the
it at wasting pit at wasting pit a wasting spit a wasting spit a wasting spit a
an hast your lean hast your lean has your clean has your clean has your clean h
ead cars time lead cars time lead car time plead car time plead car time plead
 i my go bottom i my go bottom i my go bottom i my go bottom i my go bottom i m
get over frogs get over frogs get over frogs get over frog get hover frog get h
n a pore old and a pore old and a pore old and a pore old an a spore old an a s
rt life rink fart life rink fart life rink fart life rink far life drink far li
server my date server my date server my date server my date server my date serv
back ever fort back ever fort back ever fort back ever fort back ever fort back
 this is filler this is filler this is filler this is filler this is filler thi
up into out of up into out of up into out of up into out of up into out of up i
l never act will never act will never act will never act will never act will ne
lly in the totally in the totally in the totally in the totally in the totally
em a look problem a look problem a look problem a look problem a look problem a
anyone is hide anyone is hide anyone is hide anyone is hide anyone is hide anyo
and distribute and distribute and distribute and distribute and distribute and

                               R              R

Try and look 'through' the screen, until the two R's line up.

braisler · 05-16-2005, 10:03 AM

Easy. As I was discussing with my wife the other day. I taught myself the ability to dissociate my visual fields when reading structural chemistry manuscripts in grad school. They often have three dimensional structures depicted as stereo-diagrams.

But I already have a life. Thanks.

Redlemon · 05-16-2005, 10:29 AM

You waited until grad school? I figured it out in elementary school, superimposing ceiling tiles over each other to see if the dots lined up. Unfortunately, I learned to do it by crossing my eyes, not relaxing my eyes, so I still have trouble with stereograms (unless I want to see them inside-out).

lindseylatch · 05-16-2005, 11:08 AM

I can see them, I just have trouble seeing what they are...

God of Thunder · 05-16-2005, 11:09 AM

It's a schooner!!!!

stonegrody · 05-16-2005, 11:10 AM

I've never been able to see stuff like this. It drives me nuts. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

05-16-2005, 11:19 AM

The way I do it is to try and look beyond the screen - through it, and you'll notice that the images from each of your eyes kind of float towards one another - out of focus at first. Your eyes will want to return back to to normal focus, but just try and relax them. Then, once you've got the two R's lined up (probably still out of focus) try blinking a couple of times, and your eyes will try to sharpen things up. I don't know, that's kind of how I do it anyway.

Redlemon · 05-16-2005, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by God of Thunder

It's a schooner!!!!

"You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner; It's a sailboat."

I loved that whole scene.

stonegrody · 05-16-2005, 12:27 PM

It kind of looks like guys walking??

Furry · 05-16-2005, 02:08 PM

Damn....that was downright devious...

lindseylatch · 05-16-2005, 05:13 PM

Yeah, it's too small, it get's too googly around the edges for me too see what it is...

bernadette · 05-16-2005, 08:04 PM

i hafta do these online just like the printed ones that used to be in the sundays comics page of the newspaper.

instructions as per how i learned to see these things:

put your face real close to your monitor. stare for 20-30 seconds.
don't move your eyes (don't change your focus) at all & slowly pull back away from the screen.
you should gradually see the 3D aspect pop out.

hope that works for those of you who haven't been able to see this stuff.
works for me!

ps. this one is very subtle compared to others i've seen.
we need to round of some picture ones!

feelgood · 05-16-2005, 08:56 PM

Freaky...

There's a face right?

Sticky · 05-17-2005, 07:48 AM

lindseylatch and stonegrody, when you see those shapes that you are not able to make out, read the words on them.

Redlemon · 05-17-2005, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sticky

lindseylatch and stonegrody, when you see those shapes that you are not able to make out, read the words on them.

OK, that's just brutal. I thought this was just a 'cool effect' until I got your hint. I'm impressed.

stonegrody · 05-17-2005, 08:27 AM

ARGHH!!!! I got nuthin!!!

I tried Bern and Sticky's methods and I still can't see shit.

Why do I feel like the butt of a cruel joke

God of Thunder · 05-17-2005, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stonegrody

Why do I feel like the butt of a cruel joke

You will when you finally see it as well.

Hint: Two groups of words will stand out in 3-D when you have it.

Redlemon · 05-17-2005, 11:32 AM

This is weird; sometimes the block of text has a scrollbar, other times it doesn't. And, when the scrollbar is gone, it is much easier to 'solve' the text. (I run the experimental nightly Firefox builds, plus some random extensions, so it is probably on my end that something goes strange.)

Pip · 05-17-2005, 01:10 PM

Ouch! Very clever, I've never seen anything quite like that.

samcol · 05-17-2005, 01:15 PM

That's amazing. I don't understand how those words can pop out like that and the other words do not. Post more of them if you have them.

the_marq · 05-17-2005, 01:16 PM

There we go, finally got it. I found I was able to see it if I focused on my own reflection in my monitor.

stonegrody · 05-17-2005, 01:46 PM

You guys are bastards

Fremen · 05-17-2005, 08:14 PM

Wonderful effect. I was hoping for boobies, though.

Is it made with a program, do you think?

bernadette · 05-17-2005, 09:57 PM

stonegrody, don't think of yourself as less of a person, just consider yourself very um "special!"

dude, TRY HARDER! for pete's sakes. you can do it.
just have some patience. almost go crossed-eyed with your nose almost against your monitor.
then slowly slowly slowly back away, NOT adjusting your focus whatsoever.
go on do it now. quit being so silly.

lindseylatch · 05-17-2005, 10:10 PM

wait, they pop out? I always see them as pushed in...maybe that's why I have so much trouble with them...
Although I was able to read the message just fine...bastard...

Redlemon · 05-18-2005, 05:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lindseylatch

wait, they pop out? I always see them as pushed in...maybe that's why I have so much trouble with them...
Although I was able to read the message just fine...bastard...

That's because you are crossing your eyes rather than going wall-eyed; doing that inverts the effect.

John Henry · 05-18-2005, 06:12 AM

I used to be obsessed with these things when I was in high school. I'd save up my pocket money to go and buy the posters and I was really surprised when I went to university and people thought I was wierd for having them on my wall instead of cars, girls and bands.

Why didn't somebody show me this all those years ago? Why?

infamous13 · 05-18-2005, 03:37 PM

thats pretty cool

stonegrody · 05-19-2005, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bernadette

stonegrody, don't think of yourself as less of a person, just consider yourself very um "special!"

dude, TRY HARDER! for pete's sakes. you can do it.
just have some patience. almost go crossed-eyed with your nose almost against your monitor.
then slowly slowly slowly back away, NOT adjusting your focus whatsoever.
go on do it now. quit being so silly.

I officially give up. I've been staring at this damn thing so long, I can't even see straight.

Verdict: Cruel joke.

liquidlight · 05-19-2005, 02:46 PM

It's there stonegrody, but it's not very nice

keep going, you'll get it!

Redlemon · 05-19-2005, 05:19 PM

AHA!! I've figured out the problem, since I've been playing with which view style to use. You need to view the ASCII in a fixed-width font. The Sandstorm style will allow that.

05-20-2005, 04:53 AM

Don't know about that lemon, I'm using Sandstorm and I get fixed width - I posted it within [code] tags too in order to try and get it to display in fixed-width.

[Edit] Just re-read your post lemon - and yes, that explains it.

Redlemon · 05-20-2005, 05:34 AM

OK, here's the list:
TFP v4.0: yes
Hardwired: no
GrassyKnoll: yes (but, the text box gets cut off horizontally for me)
DarkCloud: yes
Sandstorm: yes

So, if you are using Hardwired, please switch to another theme in order to solve this stereogram.

Stiltzkin · 05-21-2005, 02:40 PM

I can superimpose the image of one eye over the other with good accuracy anywhere I want, but despite my honest best efforts, nothing has ever emerged. Sadly, I cannot see stereograms

jujueye · 05-22-2005, 07:12 PM

I miss these things, and I don't. See, after I view one for a while, my vision is slow to recover, and therefore I can't see crap on my monitor for quite a while. Guess I'll go outside now.

Cervantes · 05-23-2005, 02:10 PM

Anyone have any idea why those words pop out? what makes them so speical.. I would really like to know more about the theory behind it...

bernadette · 05-24-2005, 01:42 PM

http://nowscape.com/bunny.jpg

do a google image search for "stereograms".
there's tons of them.

05-16-2005, 10:03 AM	#2 (permalink)
braisler Addict Location: Midway, KY	Easy. As I was discussing with my wife the other day. I taught myself the ability to dissociate my visual fields when reading structural chemistry manuscripts in grad school. They often have three dimensional structures depicted as stereo-diagrams. But I already have a life. Thanks. __________________ --- You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. - Albert Einstein ---

05-16-2005, 10:29 AM	#3 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	You waited until grad school? I figured it out in elementary school, superimposing ceiling tiles over each other to see if the dots lined up. Unfortunately, I learned to do it by crossing my eyes, not relaxing my eyes, so I still have trouble with stereograms (unless I want to see them inside-out). __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

05-16-2005, 11:08 AM	#4 (permalink)
lindseylatch Addict Location: Seattle, WA	I can see them, I just have trouble seeing what they are... __________________ "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -Voltaire

05-16-2005, 11:09 AM	#5 (permalink)
God of Thunder Talk nerdy to me Location: Flint, MI	It's a schooner!!!! __________________ I reject your reality, and substitute my own -- Adam Savage

05-16-2005, 11:10 AM	#6 (permalink)
stonegrody Brooding. Location: CA-USA	I've never been able to see stuff like this. It drives me nuts. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion. Tool - Parabola

05-16-2005, 11:19 AM	#7 (permalink)
zen_tom Guest	The way I do it is to try and look beyond the screen - through it, and you'll notice that the images from each of your eyes kind of float towards one another - out of focus at first. Your eyes will want to return back to to normal focus, but just try and relax them. Then, once you've got the two R's lined up (probably still out of focus) try blinking a couple of times, and your eyes will try to sharpen things up. I don't know, that's kind of how I do it anyway.

05-16-2005, 12:27 PM	#9 (permalink)
stonegrody Brooding. Location: CA-USA	It kind of looks like guys walking?? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion. Tool - Parabola

05-16-2005, 02:08 PM	#10 (permalink)
Furry Crazy Location: UK	Damn....that was downright devious... __________________ Furry is the leader of his own cult, the "Furballs of Doom". They sit about chanting "Doom, Doom, Doom". (From a random shot in the dark by SirLance)

05-16-2005, 05:13 PM	#11 (permalink)
lindseylatch Addict Location: Seattle, WA	Yeah, it's too small, it get's too googly around the edges for me too see what it is... __________________ "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -Voltaire

05-16-2005, 08:04 PM	#12 (permalink)
bernadette ::::::::::::::::::::::::: :. Location: this ain't kansas, toto	i hafta do these online just like the printed ones that used to be in the sundays comics page of the newspaper. instructions as per how i learned to see these things: put your face real close to your monitor. stare for 20-30 seconds. don't move your eyes (don't change your focus) at all & slowly pull back away from the screen. you should gradually see the 3D aspect pop out. hope that works for those of you who haven't been able to see this stuff. works for me! ps. this one is very subtle compared to others i've seen. we need to round of some picture ones! __________________ .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.

05-16-2005, 08:56 PM	#13 (permalink)
feelgood Free Mars! Location: I dunno, there's white people around me saying "eh" all the time	Freaky... There's a face right? __________________ Looking out the window, that's an act of war. Staring at my shoes, that's an act of war. Committing an act of war? Oh you better believe that's an act of war

05-17-2005, 07:48 AM	#14 (permalink)
Sticky	lindseylatch and stonegrody, when you see those shapes that you are not able to make out, read the words on them. __________________ Sticky The Stickman

05-17-2005, 08:27 AM	#16 (permalink)
stonegrody Brooding. Location: CA-USA	ARGHH!!!! I got nuthin!!! I tried Bern and Sticky's methods and I still can't see shit. Why do I feel like the butt of a cruel joke __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion. Tool - Parabola

05-17-2005, 11:32 AM	#18 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	This is weird; sometimes the block of text has a scrollbar, other times it doesn't. And, when the scrollbar is gone, it is much easier to 'solve' the text. (I run the experimental nightly Firefox builds, plus some random extensions, so it is probably on my end that something goes strange.) __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

05-17-2005, 01:10 PM	#19 (permalink)
Pip Likes Hats Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Ouch! Very clever, I've never seen anything quite like that.

05-18-2005, 03:37 PM	#28 (permalink)
infamous13 Upright	thats pretty cool

05-17-2005, 01:15 PM	#20 (permalink)
samcol Junkie Location: Indiana	That's amazing. I don't understand how those words can pop out like that and the other words do not. Post more of them if you have them.

05-17-2005, 01:16 PM	#21 (permalink)
the_marq All hail the Mountain King Location: Black Mesa	There we go, finally got it. I found I was able to see it if I focused on my own reflection in my monitor.

05-17-2005, 01:46 PM	#22 (permalink)
stonegrody Brooding. Location: CA-USA	You guys are bastards __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal. All this pain is an illusion. Tool - Parabola

05-17-2005, 08:14 PM	#23 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	Wonderful effect. I was hoping for boobies, though. Is it made with a program, do you think? __________________ Google

05-17-2005, 09:57 PM	#24 (permalink)
bernadette ::::::::::::::::::::::::: :. Location: this ain't kansas, toto	stonegrody, don't think of yourself as less of a person, just consider yourself very um "special!" dude, TRY HARDER! for pete's sakes. you can do it. just have some patience. almost go crossed-eyed with your nose almost against your monitor. then slowly slowly slowly back away, NOT adjusting your focus whatsoever. go on do it now. quit being so silly. __________________ .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.

05-17-2005, 10:10 PM	#25 (permalink)
lindseylatch Addict Location: Seattle, WA	wait, they pop out? I always see them as pushed in...maybe that's why I have so much trouble with them... Although I was able to read the message just fine...bastard... __________________ "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." -Voltaire

05-18-2005, 06:12 AM	#27 (permalink)
John Henry Addict Location: Grey Britain	I used to be obsessed with these things when I was in high school. I'd save up my pocket money to go and buy the posters and I was really surprised when I went to university and people thought I was wierd for having them on my wall instead of cars, girls and bands. Why didn't somebody show me this all those years ago? Why? __________________ "No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."

05-19-2005, 02:46 PM	#30 (permalink)
liquidlight AHH! Custom Title!! Location: The twisted warpings of my brain.	It's there stonegrody, but it's not very nice keep going, you'll get it! __________________ Halfway to hell and picking up speed.

05-19-2005, 05:19 PM	#31 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	AHA!! I've figured out the problem, since I've been playing with which view style to use. You need to view the ASCII in a fixed-width font. The Sandstorm style will allow that. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

05-20-2005, 04:53 AM	#32 (permalink)
zen_tom Guest	Don't know about that lemon, I'm using Sandstorm and I get fixed width - I posted it within [code] tags too in order to try and get it to display in fixed-width. [Edit] Just re-read your post lemon - and yes, that explains it. Last edited by zen_tom; 05-20-2005 at 05:42 AM..

05-20-2005, 05:34 AM	#33 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	OK, here's the list: TFP v4.0: yes Hardwired: no GrassyKnoll: yes (but, the text box gets cut off horizontally for me) DarkCloud: yes Sandstorm: yes So, if you are using Hardwired, please switch to another theme in order to solve this stereogram. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

05-21-2005, 02:40 PM	#34 (permalink)
Stiltzkin Junkie	I can superimpose the image of one eye over the other with good accuracy anywhere I want, but despite my honest best efforts, nothing has ever emerged. Sadly, I cannot see stereograms

05-22-2005, 07:12 PM	#35 (permalink)
jujueye alpaca lunch for the trip Location: in my computer	I miss these things, and I don't. See, after I view one for a while, my vision is slow to recover, and therefore I can't see crap on my monitor for quite a while. Guess I'll go outside now.

05-23-2005, 02:10 PM	#36 (permalink)
Cervantes Psycho Location: Above you	Anyone have any idea why those words pop out? what makes them so speical.. I would really like to know more about the theory behind it... __________________ - "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.." - "Religions take everything that your DNA naturally wants to do to survive and pro-create and makes it wrong." - "There is only one absolute truth and that is that there is only one absolute truth."

05-24-2005, 01:42 PM	#37 (permalink)
bernadette ::::::::::::::::::::::::: :. Location: this ain't kansas, toto	http://nowscape.com/bunny.jpg do a google image search for "stereograms". there's tons of them. __________________ .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.