I’d like to use this article to profess my love for stereograms – images that hide a 3D model inside. I predict comments like “I can’t see anything,” as it’s a very common issue – looking at pictures is not as easy as it seems sometimes. Thankfully, you can practice your magic vision with these Magic Eye-style stereograms created in Blender by artist lavaboosted, or morejpeg on YouTube.
I have to warn you: these are pretty difficult, so you might want to start with something simpler if you’ve never managed to see the object hidden inside. Don’t worry if it takes time: you just need to grasp the mechanics. Contrary to popular belief, you’re not supposed to cross your eyes in most cases, you need to relax them by looking “through” the image and slowly trying to focus on the object when two pictures overlap. Just don’t concentrate too hard!
If it’s impossible for now, here is a cross-view version of the first image.
For anyone wishing to make something similar, lavaboosted shared the workflow:
- Load the model into Blender.
- Select it, Tab into the edit mode, and add a ground plane and a background plane.
- Select everything and UV project from view.
- Add the UV image pattern.
- In object mode, add a material and make the base color the image. Select the image for the emission color as well. Then roughness all the way up and sheen any spectral to 0.
- Delete the light.
- Position the camera so it looks disguised but not too camouflaged, or it will be too hard to see (so move the camera from the spot where you projected the UV from view).
- Render the left image. Use walk navigation to storage over to the right a bit and render the right image.
- Load the images into Excalidraw and line them up, crop them, and export.
- Load the image into PhotoMosh to make them really pop.
- After all this, discover stereoscopy rendering.
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