Exploring how N.E. Thing Enterprises came up with and created Magic Eye pictures in the 90s! Their 3D illusion books, posters, calendars etc were everywhere for years. But did you know they sold a program to generate your own SIRDS images on a PC? Let’s dive into the history of stereograms, how Magic Eye dominated, and how to make your own!
● LGR things elsewhere:
https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews
https://bsky.app/profile/lgr-yt.bsky.social
● Other pertinent links:
Stare-EO Workshop archive https://archive.org/details/stare-eo-workshop
Magic Eye: The Video VHS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcO64fTBKTk
Stereogram Solver https://piellardj.github.io/stereogram-solver/
● Background music licensed from Epidemic Sound:
http://www.epidemicsound.com
00:00 Magic Eye images
02:11 can see, can’t see?
03:22 Stare-E-O Workshop
04:13 a tale of tech
11:01 so what is this?!
12:49 odd copy protection
13:41 the program itself
14:27 starting a drawing
15:13 can you see it?
17:19 drawing tools
19:32 others SIRDS generators
21:05 heck yeah, Magic Eye
#LGR #retro #3D #illusion #history
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