Magic Eye is a series of books that feature autostereograms.
After creating its first images in 1991, creator Tom Baccei worked with Tenyo, a Japanese company that sells magic supplies. Tenyo published its first book in late 1991 titled Miru Miru Mega Yokunaru Magic Eye ("Your Eyesight Gets Better & Better in a Very Short Rate of Time: Magic Eye"), sending sales representatives out to street corners to demonstrate how to see the hidden image. Within a few weeks the first Japanese book became a best seller, as did the second, rushed out shortly after.
The first North American Magic Eye book was Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World.
Magic Eye stereograms have been used by orthoptists and vision therapists in the treatment of some binocular vision and accommodative disorders.
External links
- Official website
- US Patent 5,371,627; Random dot stereogram and method for making the same
References
Grossman, John (1994-10-01). "In the Eye of the Beholder, Marketing Methods Article". Inc. Retrieved 2010-10-22. http://www.inc.com/magazine/19941001/3138_pagen_2.html ↩
Intro to Magic Eye II https://www.amazon.com/dp/0836270096 ↩
"About Magic eye". Magic Eye. Archived from the original on 2010-12-14. Retrieved 2010-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20101214170655/http://magiceye.com/about/about.html ↩
"Magic Eye stereograms, vision therapy, visual training, eye exercises, eye training, Anaglyphs, stereo photography". Vision3d.com. Rachel Cooper. Retrieved 2010-05-18. http://www.vision3d.com/VTdocs.html ↩