Wow, this is incredibly well done!
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ERIC MACK
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This is incredible and opens up new possibilities for the GB. Congratulations!
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Three-Eyed CatMy eyes aren't magic enough to see the image clearly, but I can barely make out the shape for just a moment when I cross my eyes. Very cool! I need to retrain my eyes so I can fully enjoy this piece!!!
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GB Pixel Art Jam 2026 EntryAre you playing a trick on me? I've been staring at this image for 5 minutes crossing my eyes, relaxing my eyes, focusing my eyes, trying to see a hidden image. Well I remember loving these on the backs of cereal boxes as a kid. But it seems I've lost my touch, I couldn't find anything.
I appreciated the write up, your thought process was sound. Need to take a break from screens now, eyes feel a bit wonky.
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The Holy GhostHaha no tricks here, there is a true illusion there.
My tip (at the risk of further headache) would be to look at it on a desktop monitor and not zoomed if, if you are not already. How it is in the large thumbnail on this page and how it is on the project page itself with the writeup are both the most comfortable scale for myself to see the illusion personally.
Took me a while to figure how to detect the illusion, but when it finally worked it was really cool! I'm a big fan of the 3DS because of its 3D display, I'm impressed a 3D effect can be achieved at this low resolution :o
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The 3 Moirais of DestinyNice work! I also was inspired by this theme to do something 3D / Magic-Eyeish. It was a fun project. Doing it on the noise background must have been tricky with the limitations.
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Only for Dmg III-DYour's looks great! I thought initially to try stereoscopic but then recalled autostereograms and thought that might have a better chance of the effect working at this resolution. Your submission does a fantastic job at achieving the stereoscopic effect though, nice work! That's really cool to know that is possible at this resolution.
The noise background was not too difficult on it actually! I already knew that I needed one big rectangle to be 6 tiles wide, and the full height of the screen. That section is then replicated as the base background, then with some groupings shifted (by three pixels to keep in theme) to achieve the 3D effect for the "3". I made I think 12 unique noise tiles by hand, then took those and flipped them, rotated them, and duplicated them in a random assortment to make that initial rectangle. I figured there should be enough repetition that even with the eventual offset of the large "3", I should be alright... and I was! The final tile count is 172 if I recall correctly. Got lucky!
Thanks!
Nice. I imagine it's a balance between getting it to be not too repetitive, but random enough that the 3 pixel skip isn't too noticeable without using the viewing technique. Works really well. I think I did 7 or 8 different pixel spacings to get the different depths, which meant I couldn't reuse too many tiles even though there were a lot of repeated components. I ended up needing to do some work and last minute tweaks to get it in at 192 exactly.
Yeah I think it would have been too much if it were just two depths separated in spacing by 8 pixels, but with all the intermediate steps it reads more as a gradient. I also found that the more I added, the less extremely I perceived a step of one pixel to be, which I wasn't expecting to be the case.
Really cool idea, but ever since I was a kid I was never really able to see what was in the Magic Eye books.
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Witch TrinityOO my what an incredible idea, and really fun too! This is unlike anything I have seen! It was a truly innovative!
Though my eyes, have been playing tricks on me and I can't seem to see anything clearly!
But I have spotted 3 creatures with eyes and horns, as well as hands. Now that might just be me going crazy, but regardless it is a ton of fun! Amazing submission! :)
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Game Boy MockupThank you for the kind words :) Crossing your eyes for the illusion to show can be tricky! I used to have a lot more trouble with them at one time.
I didn't even think about spotting other images in this they way you might do so with clouds, that's a fun idea! I'd love to see these creatures you've found in it.
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