Jonathan Lansey

Crude letters should spells out my last name, "Lansey"

When I was little I spent some time to figure out why we have depth perception.  Naturally, when I came across a stereoscopic photo, I became interested in the invention.  Since I already knew how we see in 3D, it wasn't hard to see how the stereograms worked.  I even drew some crude stereoscopic pairs on graph paper.

Magic Eyes were much more complicated to figure out because I had no idea how they were created.  With stereoscopic photos, I knew they were taken with a camera with two lenses spaced about the distance between two eyes, exposing two photos.  To me a magic eye was a huge unordered mush.  One of my families books though, had a couple relatively simple ones on the first couple pages.  It took me some time, but by tenth grade, I had worked it out. 

I was in the middle of making a 3D guitar "masterpiece" when then the headaches came on so I quit working on it. 

A cousin of mine is related one of the original magic eye developers.  He has explained to me how to make a program to do this.  I plan to write this program the second I have learnt enough to do it.

Before Photoshop.  notice the height changes in steps.

I avoid the steps problem in this kind of picture.

This should be an Octagon.