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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 9 May 1994.
Re: Stereograms for Art Class

Re: Stereograms for Art Class

In article <2qalna$rf...@mercury.dur.ac.uk>, N M Miners
<N.M...@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Bryan D Levenson (ble...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
> : [snip-o]
> : What I need you brilliant people to help me with is this: what is the idea 
> : behind seeing them or not seeing them. How can I use these media to create
> one 

> There's a problem here - Stereograms are generally computer generated and 
> as such are probably impossible to recreate using charcoal, chalk and pastel.
> 
> To view stereograms takes patience and practice, but the results ARE (or 
> rather CAN BE) impressive.  If you look carefully you'll generallt find a 
> repeated pattern of dots (or whatever the SG is made up from).  You need 
> to `uncross' your eyes (like going crosseyed only in reverse - a bit 
> harder, I have always thought) as if you were looking at something behind 
> the plane of the SG (it helps sometimes to put a pane of glass ov

The concept (i've recently found out) is that of "Hypersight" (ooo, I love
it!, Hyper-anything!)  the ability to 'overextend' your focal vision.  You
stare at your reflection is a pane of glass to help you see twice as far as
the image is from you.  Once you become pretty good at it, you can look at
a plane sheet of paper, or a Usenet article, with one on it and 'force' the
image to pop out. 

Best of luck, they are a pretty cool idea.  Anyone know the source?
-Neil

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Subject: Re: Stereograms for Art Class
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