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- Kronos6948, on 09/13/2009, -1/+21It's a schooner!
- jerryjamesstone, on 09/13/2009, -4/+22oooooooh, pass the acid please.
- decx, on 09/13/2009, -1/+14i dont see *****
- flangepiece, on 09/13/2009, -1/+13You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!
- Fuzzycop, on 09/13/2009, -5/+15Wow! What a change! APOD has only used this same exact picture and text 5 times!
9/13/09
12/16/07
1/30/05
5/18/03
4/30/02 - TyrannousDotNet, on 09/13/2009, -0/+10youve gone full retarded!
- infigon, on 09/13/2009, -7/+16I have always enjoyed these visual holograms. This particular one I can see 4 levels: 1st is a normal teapot, 2nd is a deformed teapot withing multiple teapots, and the remaining two are the inverse, i.e. instead of sticking out, they are recessed. These aliased holographic perspectives are achieved by relaxing (normal) or crossing (recessed) your eyes. Depending on how agile one is with their eyes, more levels might be visible.
My first experience was 17 years ago with another hologram. There I could cross my eyes more strongly and could make out 5 levels.
Fun stuff. - AndrewIsAwesome, on 09/13/2009, -1/+10http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stereogram_Tut_A ...
- JakeBC, on 09/13/2009, -1/+10Before people keep burying Infigon down, he is actually right about this. At first I thought it was just a regular magic eye picture, with a teapot floating there with the background sloping off into the distance. Then I crossed my eyes a bit and got an inverted teapot with the walls coming out of the screen. A little more re-focusing got me another inverted teapot with another inverted teapot inside of it.
I have to admit, of all the magic eye pictures I have looked at, this is the first time I have seen multiple images in one. There is definitely more than meets the eye here. - tgc1, on 09/13/2009, -1/+9A schooner is a sailboat STUPID HEAD!
- MalarkeyPN, on 09/13/2009, -0/+7All magic eye type images are inverted when you cross your eyes. Everything that you have described is typical of this type of image. Think about how stereo vision works and how these images work, and you'll understand why that nesting effect happens (teapot within a teapot) and you'll understand why, even though it's easy to see the nesting effect, it's not really meant to be viewed that way.
Or maybe it is. *****. I learned a ton about stereo optics just by looking at these things (and other repeating patterns ... wallpaper, chicken wire fences etc...) when I was a kid. - Mujokan, on 09/13/2009, -0/+6Recently they invented these things called hyperlinks.
- LarkStew, on 09/13/2009, -2/+8All I can see is lots of multi-coloured splotches.
- wstrinz, on 09/13/2009, -1/+6I just can't see the ***** sailboat!
- wstrinz, on 09/13/2009, -0/+4Yea, wouldn't it be great if you were on a vast interconnected network of knowledge where you could easily find info on all sorts of things.
- AmnesiacJack, on 09/13/2009, -1/+5Never been able to do these pictures, no matter how hard I try to cross my eyes or give the picture the 1000 yard stare all I see a splotches of color. I always had to flip to the back of the magic eye books to see what normal people were able to see :(
- ducktomguy, on 09/13/2009, -1/+4it would be cool if they could make animation out of these
- Charrion, on 09/13/2009, -1/+4I see four lights!
- datagod, on 09/14/2009, -0/+3When did the word "hologram" lose its meaning?
- joblessjunkie, on 09/13/2009, -0/+3It's bad enough that the internet repeats itself.
Worse, every time it does, somebody has to complain about the internet repeating itself.
And then somebody has to complain about, that, too, so that the internet repeats itself while repeating itself. - hadiz, on 09/13/2009, -1/+3The celestial teapot?
- DelMonte, on 09/14/2009, -1/+3Yeah, the image is not an hologram, it's a stereogram.
Big difference, especially when talking about the amount of information an hologram can contain. - ivankraszl, on 09/13/2009, -1/+3I see only a tea pot.
- jadeboi, on 09/14/2009, -0/+2Agree with "full retarded" comment. The more you cross your eyes the more levels you see? Do you even understand how your eyes, and how these stereoscopic images work? It's like saying "hey, if you watch that old Jaws in 3d movie, but put the glasses on backwards, you see another hidden level in the movie"
tard. - Brassbud, on 09/13/2009, -2/+4This is the first time I've seen mulitiple images in one of these. There is a medium-sized teapot, a smaller teapot, and a big teapot with a small teapot-shaped hole in it.
- AmnesiacJack, on 09/13/2009, -1/+2I figured maybe being color blind had something to do with it.
- QubitTarutaru, on 09/14/2009, -1/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
- Mujokan, on 09/13/2009, -0/+1There isn't so much an objective answer as to the number of dimensions that "really" exist. The question is more whether you can represent our universe as either three or four, with no significant difference between the two representations in terms of what can be expressed. Like the teapot picture, it's really just about how you want to look at it.
- ZeeZee2k, on 09/14/2009, -1/+2Something about there's no easter bunny, that's a guy in a suit.
Sorry I forgot the exact quote. - enronhubbard, on 09/13/2009, -0/+1And then there's people like me who take it too far by complaining about you complaining about him complaining about the internet repeating itself.
- derek20cali, on 09/14/2009, -0/+1So are you saying you know more than NASA? Only on digg...
- hereticoftruth, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1This is a nice effect achievable with binocular vision. Most astronauts their first time up in earth orbit see the surface of the earth as flat. but after a while some develop a time dependent 3D vision so that they can see the earth's surface in 3D. It is subconscious. One eye sees time in the present and the other eye recalls what was recently seen in the past and by comparison of the differences of the two achieve a 3D image of the earth. It is amazing what our minds can accomplish without our making a conscious effort to do so!
- emt1451, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1You are probably slightly cross eyed.
- eanbowman, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1Great, now you just made me feel like that guy from Mallrats. :C
*breaks the magic-eye poster of a sailboat* - ponyponipone, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1This is not the limit. If you add the interrelations and correlations between bits in this information matrix, you can multiply the data storage capacity.
- rugabug, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1My astigmatism makes it hard for me to see magic eyes now. :(
- Draschomat, on 09/14/2009, -1/+1Ahh I think that in tody's picture APOD campaigns for the Utah teapot. :-P
- eanbowman, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1Stereoscopic glasses work for me a bit but sometimes the image will separate.
These magic-eye type images have never, ever worked for me no matter how I relaxed, crossed my eyes, not crossed my eyes, focused, unfocused.
Now, I saw UP recently while *ahem* under the influence of psychoactive substances. I found the experience of using the 3D polarised glasses much easier on me than usual. I wonder what the connection might be? (or if there is one) - GT5476E, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1I can't see it : /
- inactive, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1i cant see ***** all :s
- Yage2006, on 09/14/2009, -1/+1Sweet a new wallpaper for my desktop.
Hmmm wait a minute. - Dauven, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1I hate these things. I've spent hours trying to see the hologram, then I found out that people who have a lazy eye can't do it. It's physically impossible for me to see it. Damn them! Damn them all!
- tbttfox, on 09/13/2009, -1/+1Nope, colorblindness has nothing to do with it. It has to do with the repeated textures.
Look up Autostereogram on wikipedia for a good explanation on how they work. Maybe knowing will help you figure them out. - abk0110, on 09/13/2009, -2/+1You mean the guy who plays Randy on My Name is Earl, right?
- biddie67, on 09/13/2009, -2/+1I will have to take a couple of deep breaths and psych myself up before I tackle the links in that description! But meantime, the little teapot is delightful! It's been some time since I've looked at this type of picture. The techniques have really advanced - I hadn't seen the refinement of detail, angled walls and movement like this before.
I will also try infigon's suggestion above to see a reverse image - I did get the teapot to disappear into the back wall ....
After I get through some understanding of the info in the description's links (hopefully), will there be any hints as to how we mere humans have to focus our eyes and minds to "see" the spaces beyond our little Earth-home? - belthize, on 09/13/2009, -2/+1
No, it's a picture of the Teapot Nebula, it is APOD after all. Not sure what the nonsense in the caption was, they must have mixed up their pictures and descriptions. - ohmanger, on 09/13/2009, -6/+4I see it! (no one show this to Silent Bob)
- Bactame, on 09/13/2009, -9/+2Well seeing teapots occurs because that is the name of the picture...Teapots. There is a small group of people who have seen the picture, thus they know its name.
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