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React Stereogram

ryanlanciaux.com/react-stereogram/
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90s Magic Eye posters, now a React component

WHAT IT SOLVES

Those 'magic eye' posters you squinted at as a kid — someone wrapped the whole algorithm into a React component

WHY IT'S INTERESTING

Product taste

Not just a port — a genuinely configurable component

Tweakable layers, smoothness, invert-depth toggle, auto-normalize — these knobs aren't paper defaults, they're tuned by someone who actually stared at these things to figure out what makes fusing easier

Real craft

Live image upload + 3 texture palettes: rainbow, neon, pastel

Drop in any grayscale depth map and it renders live — plus swap between rainbow, neon and pastel patterns on the fly. Most demos hardcode one image; this one's interactive

Brighter pixels come nearer — if your subject is darker than its background (most photos and logos), tick invert depth so the subject pops instead of the background

spaceships

TECH GUESS

Pure client-side Canvas/SVG rendering wrapped in React, no backend

📍 Source: hn📅 2026-08-11Original post →Visit site →
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