Magic Eye Explained

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.^{[1] [2]}

The first North American Magic Eye book was Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World.^[3]

Magic Eye stereograms have been used by orthoptists and vision therapists in the treatment of some binocular vision and accommodative disorders.^[4]

External links

• • US Patent 5,371,627; Random dot stereogram and method for making the same

Notes and References

1. Web site: John . Grossman . In the Eye of the Beholder, Marketing Methods Article . Inc. . 1994-10-01 . 2010-10-22.
2. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0836270096 Intro to Magic Eye II
3. Web site: About Magic eye . Magic Eye . 2010-10-22 . dead . 2010-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101214170655/http://magiceye.com/about/about.html.
4. Web site: Magic Eye stereograms, vision therapy, visual training, eye exercises, eye training, Anaglyphs, stereo photography . Vision3d.com . Rachel Cooper . 2010-05-18.