Magic Eye

---

title: "Magic Eye" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1990s-fads-and-trends", "optical-illusions"] description: "Book series with hidden 3D images" topic_path: "general/1990s-fads-and-trends" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Eye" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Book series with hidden 3D images ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/MagicEyeCover.gif" caption="Cover of the first book"] ::

Magic Eye is a series of books that feature autostereograms.

After creating its first images in 1991, creator Tom Baccei worked with Tenyo, a Japanese company that sells magic supplies. Tenyo published its first book in late 1991 titled Miru Miru Mega Yokunaru Magic Eye ("Your Eyesight Gets Better & Better in a Very Short Rate of Time: Magic Eye"), sending sales representatives out to street corners to demonstrate how to see the hidden image. Within a few weeks the first Japanese book became a best seller, as did the second, rushed out shortly after.

The first North American Magic Eye book was Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World.

Magic Eye stereograms have been used by orthoptists and vision therapists in the treatment of some binocular vision and accommodative disorders.

References

References

1. Grossman, John. (1994-10-01). "In the Eye of the Beholder, Marketing Methods Article".
2. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0836270096 Intro to Magic Eye II]
3. "About Magic eye".
4. "Magic Eye stereograms, vision therapy, visual training, eye exercises, eye training, Anaglyphs, stereo photography". Rachel Cooper.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::