The Victorian stereographs were typically photos or simple drawings. The real innovation on the path toward Magic Eye was research conducted by Bela Julesz in the late 1950s. Working at Bell ...

Magic Eye's granddaddy was the random dot stereogram invented by neuroscientist and psychologist Bela Julesz in 1959 to test people’s ability to see in 3D. Julesz would generate one image of ...