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In the Wikipedia article on autostereogram [1] there is an example of a chess set [2] where the 2D image directly corresponds to the 3D autostereogram image. It is apparently a type of wallpaper autosterogram, instead of random dot, which requires horizontal repetition for the effect to work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram#/media/File:Che...

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That picture in particular has a really interesting parallax effect - view it in stereo and move your head around. For me, the back rank seems to shift a lot with head position, even though the image itself is (obviously) stationary.

Regular Magic-Eye pictures do this too, but to a much less noticeable degree.

Interesting! I think this is possible here because the 3D geometry is also horizontally repetitive.

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