autostereogram
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A single-image stereogram, designed to trick the human eye and brain into seeing a three-dimensional scene in a two-dimensional image.
Example Sentences
- "To see a random dot autostereogram correctly, draw the eyes (and face) towards, say, within one inch of the image, and then slowly pull away, until the central 3D shape coalesces into view."
- "If you stared at the pattern long enough, your brain would trick itself into seeing a hidden 3D image. It was called an autostereogram, and it was easy to make one if you were a moderately skilled programmer."
Etymology
From auto- + stereogram.