Subject: Viewing random dot stereograms

From: [email-masked] (Simon)
Date: 18 Jun 92 00:32:07 GMT

One technique that works for people having difficulty viewing random
dot stereograms is the following.  Hold the page close to your face
and you will see three triangles or arrows at the top.  Move the
page away from your face in small steps, keeping the middle marker
together.  If you go too fast it will separate into two markers (there
will then be four total) and you have to move the page closer again.
When you get the page about 1 foot away, look down into the body of
the picture.  It gets easier and easier with practice.

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen Taylor)
Date: 22 Jun 92 04:03:45 GMT

>the picture.  It gets easier and easier with practice. 

The technique that finally worked for me (and I had a *lot* of trouble) was
to use a ruler to mark two fat black dots in the middle of the picture, in
line with the arrows, and get these to merge. This solved the problem I'd
had of my eyes refocusing every time I looked down.

							Steve