Periodic reminder: #Substack profits off Nazi pages bc they don't want to be "in the censorship business," but they also won't host adult content, so they ARE in the "censorship business." They just think Nazis are better than pornographers.

This is why I will never give Substack a single shiny nickel.

There's a fun YouTube video going round at the moment about "how Magic Eye pictures were made": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvXY99HysrU

It's a good video but it (by choice) doesn't go into the actual mechanism that makes autostereograms work.

I figured the basics of it out by staring at the images years ago and wrote code to generate them — I'm hazy on when this happened, there is a very real chance I was a literal child working on an Atari STe, so I figured I ought to be able to recreate it now.

I've got a prototype working and made some images — the next steps, I suppose, are to get some nicer patterns into them, put a real interface on it, and/or turn it into a little explainer for the curious.