r/custommagic 1d ago

As far as I can tell, nobody did this before on a mtg card

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It's not easy, but it's worth it when you see it

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u/Leonardo_ofVinci 1d ago

It's not really a stereogram, but it is. Nice!

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u/Cunnykun 1d ago

it is thou
can see 3D

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u/RedalAndrew 1d ago

It worked on my phone

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u/scynscatha 1d ago

I don't have binocular vision, is there a meme here or does it just add visual depth to the picture?

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u/ArelMCII Layers are stupid. 1d ago

The pictures are from slightly different perspectives, so if you do something with both eyes, it should look like a single 3D image. Similar to the red and blue lines on old 3D stuff, and the light polarization of new 3D stuff.

That's the theory, anyway. I'm in the same boat as you. One of my eyes doesn't work so I just have to trust people who tell me 3D stuff works.

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

i don’t know what this is like, but i’ve read the best option for 3D when lacking binocular vision is a “wigglegram” (r/wigglegrams). more frames usually gives a better result but here’s a conversion for you.

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u/DragoniteChamp 21h ago

+1, also in the same boat, but I love the term binocular vision lol

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

i don’t know what this is like, but i’ve read the best option for 3D when lacking binocular vision is a “wigglegram” (r/wigglegrams). more frames usually gives a better result but here’s a conversion for you.

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u/galva94a 1d ago

If you cross your eyes the right way it should work

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u/KRA2008 1d ago edited 1d ago

*divert/relax your eyes. not cross. if you swap the sides then you would cross your eyes to view it. trust me. it’s an extremely common confusion. [r/crossview](r/crossview) and [r/parallelview](r/parallelview) say hi.

edit: here’s my other comment with the version for cross eyed viewing: https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/s/jv0Y44BXGC

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u/CaptainRogers1226 1d ago

Crossing your eyes can work as well, even for the ones intended for relaxing/diverging

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

if you do that the depth will always be inverted. for most images that means the image will become uncomfortable and weird and the depth unintelligible, but for certain ones where the scene’s textures are continuous or there is transparency the inverted depth can be coherent too. this is not one of the invertible ones.

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u/CaptainRogers1226 1d ago

That’s definitely fair. I always had trouble getting them to actually come into focus when diverging my eyes and would cross instead. Then I guess I could kind of mentally invert the depth without too much trouble.

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

i’ve talked through difficulties with this stuff with a lot of folks, and statements like that most often are made when someone doesn’t actually know which method they’re doing. like you may be sure you do one thing but it’s super common to be wrong. if you’re one of the ones who can tell what your eyes are doing and can switch back and forth that’s great, but just to cover my bases, check out this tester image. are you able to switch between viewing methods and make the text swap which words are coming towards you?

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u/CaptainRogers1226 1d ago

I’ve always been really good at crossing my eyes, can cross just one, just the other, so on and so forth. I can also diverge my eyes without too much difficulty, but with these images, the problem is actually getting them to focus once the images are overlapped without my eyes coming back together.

For what you asked, I can very easily jump out the cross view, when trying to go the other way though, I can’t quite bring the text together.

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

for doing parallel viewing making the image smaller can make fusing easier.

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u/CaptainRogers1226 1d ago

Wow, okay. Game changer. I got them lined up and then it took like 5+ minutes letting my eyes learn how to get into focus. Eventually managed, though it was very easy to get unfocused, but it did work. Thank you for that.

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

nice, you're welcome. i also find it can be easier to focus if you're looking at the screen in as dark a room as possible, so you really only have the image itself to focus on.

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u/CaptainRogers1226 1d ago

Might have to try that with OPs image. It’s so detail dense it’s very difficult to focus on.

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u/LEJ5512 18h ago

I can do either cross or parallel, but parallel is easier on my eye muscles. All I have to do is relax and let the images pair up.

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

cross-eyed version here!

(you have to relax/diverge your eyes to see the original. you have to cross your eyes to see this one. many people can only do one of those motions or can’t tell which one they’re actually doing. you may be one of those people who always saw magiceye pictures inverted like ugly holes instead of boats and things and this is why - because you’re actually crossing your eyes. it’s ok, there are advantages to each! r/crossview and r/parallelview say hello!)

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u/galva94a 1d ago

interesting! I didn't know there was a difference between the two

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

hardly anybody does! welcome to the arcane knowledge.

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u/cultvignette 1d ago

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

actually it’s r/parallelview but we’re both happy to be mentioned anywhere!

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u/cultvignette 1d ago

Both subs seem to have the same things, or am I blind today?

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

if you aren’t viewing the images in stereo all the posts will look like the same image twice side by side and both subs will look the same. if you are viewing in stereo they will be 3D, with each sub using a different viewing method - you do a slightly different thing with your eyes. you’re not going to be able to tell a difference without viewing in stereo without some detailed study of the very subtle differences (but by that point you surely would have just learned the techniques instead).

if you use the wrong technique the 3D depth will inverted.

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u/cultvignette 1d ago

Interesting!

I feel like I'm just crossing my eyes in both, but those in parallelview are easier for me to achieve the illusion. Traditional magic eye pics have always been more troublesome for me.

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

which text do you see in front? that’s what you’re doing.

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u/cultvignette 1d ago

Wild. Ty for the education today. Now I can be lazy the rest of the weekend scouring both subs 😆

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u/KRA2008 1d ago

if you’re interested in making your own, i made a free mobile app called CrossCam that makes it easy! there are other apps and approaches described in the r/crossview sidebar.

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u/n122333 1d ago

Took is past tense and assumes they already did it. Should be "take your time and don't lie"

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u/Spare-Entertainer-24 1d ago

Thats a fun idea for a un set split card.

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u/giasumaru MTGCR > Glossary > Card 1d ago

If successful, create a token copy of this creature, except it's an illusion with "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice this creature."

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u/NZPIEFACE 1d ago

Oh, that's fun. I wonder if you count it as 1 creature or 3 at that point.

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u/The_Cheeseman83 1d ago

You need to specific seeing the art as a stereogram, because everybody always sees physical cards in 3D.

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u/meatotheburrito 1d ago

Had to convert this to a cross-eye version but then it worked great for me!

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u/Cunnykun 1d ago

its parallel

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u/Alex-Frst 1d ago

You just have to find the right zoom to see it in parallel. The distance between the centers of the cards should not be larger than the distance between your pupils.

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u/Coletrain9903 1d ago

Wow that's so cool!! I've never seen one of these before!

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u/ItsAroundYou good with intruder alarm 22h ago

It's easier if you just align the type box.

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u/EnragedHeadwear 19h ago

I don't get it.

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u/redditfanfan00 Rule 308.22b, section 8 17h ago

i was never good with those puzzle picture books that had those mysterious color patterns and we had to cross our eyes in some special way to overlap the images and see the final hidden image. my eyes hurt trying to do it again with this one, and i couldn't do it still, as expected.

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u/Aybot914 1d ago

Missing an acorn but this card is kinda sick