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you know when you mess with your binocular vision by letting the axes of your eyes diverge a bit, and the illusion of it being a single image breaks, as you see two images simultaneously? this is z-fighting, to me
god the fact you can just do this on command (well, i can at least?) is so cool. what else is even like that, a way you can easily tear a hole in “reality”…
@hikari Sometimes when I'm bored in a meeting I'll move my eyes such that two different people's faces overlap in my cognition and merge into a new hybrid person.
If I cross my eyes and close one eyelid, the remaining eye will be out of focus. I can control how blurry the world is, but without the distraction of overlapping images.
If I continuously swivel my eyes, incandescent lights leave continuous streaks but flickering LEDs leave dotted lines. Flickering lights are surprisingly common.
@johnnesky oh yeah i love the dotted lines effect! dlp projectors are particularly fun to do this for.
never tried face-merging yet though, gotta experience this
@hikari @johnnesky Ever tried looking at stereograms (magic eye images)?
@jernej__s @hikari
Ooh, another thing related to that: those games where there's two versions of a picture with a set of small differences and you have to find them all? It's super easy for me to just cross my eyes so they overlap and then all the differences pop out at me.
@johnnesky @hikari Hah, I used to do the same.