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I can't see Monroe no matter how hard I squint, or how far back I am. Although, maybe this room isn't big enough... How far back are we supposed to go? Or did I get trolled?

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Try closing one eye, putting your thumb on the screen just under the image, and focusing on your thumb as you draw it back towards your face. You can see Albert change into Marilyn before your very eye!

(That's what it's like for nearsighted people all the time. With glasses on, I can roughly simulate the blurriness of no glasses by focusing on my thumb about six inches from my face, with the image about two feet away.)

Works like a charm!

Not for me :-(. I see Einstein no matter what I do. I've never in my life been able to resolve stereograms, either.

There is a sidebar on the right hand side of the page that lists the top stories, and it has a smaller version of the image. I was able to see Marilyn in that one without much effort.

I backed up about 5 meters, closed one eye, and squinted the other really hard while focusing on one point.

Someone has one of these printed out at my grad lab. I can only see Marilyn from a very long way away. You might have to print it out.

Try making the image smaller. I don't have a lot of room in front of my monitor either, but by shrinking it down and scooting my chair back I could start to see her. It wasn't perfect though, it sort of looked like Marilyn Monroe crossed with a death's head.

I backed away from my laptop by about ten feet, at about a 45 degree angle, while sitting down. I was startled how much it was, at that distance and angle, clearly a picture of Marilyn Monroe.

Can you see where she should be? Even when looking at Einstein I can see where her eyebrows and such are hiding

I had to back up about 15 or 20 feet before I recognized Monroe. FWIW - I've got LASIK corrected vision.

I haven't had an eye exam in over a decade but I think that my vision was around 20/20 and I know that my grandfather had better than 20/20. This is probably about right though. I paced off 15 steps until I was about a yard from my monitor from where the picture was clearly Marilyn.

No, it's there. If you blur your vision by squinting you should see it - slightly crossing my eyes while squinting helped.

I can see Einstein normally though. Basically, the blurrier the image looks to you, the more like Monroe it will look.

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