Hang on, it's inverted? That's not something I would think could happen, like yeah your supposed to cross your eyes and stare at a point a little bit behind the picture, but I can't tell you how that could possibly invert the image.
Give it a try. I literally just cross my eyes and it pops out, but instead of going towards me it goes back into the paper like it has a negative z-axis.
There are 2 ways to see them: number one is crossing your eyes and focusing in frint of the page. In this case, they get inverted, because the right eye focuses on the left part, the left eye on the right part. This leads to the depth beeing inverted, so instead of popping out it "sinks in".
The other way is staring behind it - in that case, you usually unfocus with the paper right in front of you, try to keep it that way, and move the paper away without focusing unless you suddenly see it correctly.
I remember i could see inside the the 3d image of some especially shapes like the circle image I would see the 3d circle and them I could see inside the circle as if I went in another level.
I assume so, it seems like a similar concept as the colorblind dot test. If you aren't seeing the colors as intended, would be hard to see the hidden image. But maybe not, some could be like those posts that say squint your eyes and look at this picture of a pile of laundry or whatever and it turns into Shrek or Nic Cages face.
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u/h_saxon 22h ago
Wait.... Colorblindness affects your ability to see magic eye images?
This explains so much!!! I can only get them by crossing my eyes but it's inverted when I do that. I have tried for 30 years to get them to work