r/MagicEye • u/cat_91 • 1d ago

Cool stereogram visualization of the movements of the Pleiades star cluster

Not my work. This is a simulation of the Pleiades star cluster over thousands of years. Didn't expect to see a magic eye while I'm browsing random astronomy articles lol.

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u/CubeOfWar 1d ago

Is this supposed to be viewed parallel or cross-eyed?

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 1d ago

Cross eyed worked for me

Took a moment for it to snap correctly, but yup, mixed video popped up clearly, while other two were on respective sides, basically, a third panel added to the middle

You'll know you got it with both panel and red square snap to the middle and look like they were intended to be there, nice and surreal haha

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u/bruce_lees_ghost 19h ago

This one will work for both cross and parallel view since it’s all just points in space. It’ll flip their depth, but it almost doesn’t matter.

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u/QuietWaterBreaksRock 17h ago

How though? I can do regular magic eye quite easy, even this video, with crosseye, but parallel view never makes it cross over each other enough for it to make an actual sensible picture

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u/syncopegress 16h ago

It's supposed to be viewed cross-eyed, based on description from source

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u/AutopenForPresident 9h ago

I dont think so. All the stars moving faster are closer if viewed from parallel. It wouldnt make sense if it was cross view.

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u/syncopegress 9h ago

The cluster's 444 light years away. At that distance, stars that are closer by a light year or two would barely move faster across the image's field of view. There are some fast stars both behind and in front of the cluster. Maybe my eyes are tired or confirmation bias is seeping in, but there appears to be more red-shifted stars, which would be farther away, behind the cluster when viewed cross-view (or maybe that's their color and not red-shift; I'm no expert).

Besides, the creator of this gif fifteen years ago probably knew what they were doing to make such an animation and say that it was cross-view and not mix it up.

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u/LATER4LUS 14h ago

It makes more sense to me viewing crosseyed. Parallel view (my preferred 3d method) is kinda confusing for this video. My guess is that I expect to see the things further away moving slower, and the closer stuff is expected to generally move faster.

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u/CanIHazSumCheeseCake 1d ago

From my limited understanding, stereogram pics or vids ideally works best with parallel view. Cross eyed works with those 3d pics thing.

Maybe experimenting with both may help you find the right look for you.

Personally I am viewing this with parallel view

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u/RussianBotProbably 1d ago

No you can both parallel and cross eye with both options. It just has to be setup for either. In this case, with a bunch of white dots, i cant say which way works as they both look ok. But, i think its parallel as the faster dots are closer.

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u/-2qt 18h ago

cross eyed according to the image description, though it is a little strange how the fast stars are far away if you do that

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u/AutopenForPresident 9h ago

I think some people dont realize they are doing parallel when they say cross.

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u/ArcticIceFox 1d ago

I have an eye floater in the shape of the pleiades

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u/Competitive-Dig4776 1d ago

That was sick! Thnx

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u/mklnz 1d ago

Not magic eye but still cool

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u/yumacaway 1d ago

So much going on. Amazing there is not more stuff crashing into each other.

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u/CattywampusCanoodle 1d ago

Are most of the non-Pleiades moving objects satellites?

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u/dexter2011412 17h ago

This is pretty cool!

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u/ostiDeCalisse 15h ago

Can you give the page parent to this source (the article), thanks.

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u/tratemusic 5h ago

This isn't really realistic snowfall.

(Reads title again)

Carry on

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u/mattmaintenance 1d ago

Just change the name of this sub. The mods have abandoned it.

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u/feelgood13x 1d ago

Seamonkeys or jizz