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This is a great entry. I'm lucky enough to be able to see 3D stuff in this way but I hadn't come across the ASCII SIRDS. I thought you were joking when you mentioned ASCII being used for this purpose but, there in front of me, dots and letters and dashes became three dimensional pictures! I think I need a little lie down now.

Well done!

Thanks, Vestboy. I think that ASCII floaters are easier to see than normal Magic Eye ones; maybe I should have started my friends on those before moving on to commercial stereograms!

Do you have any tips or rules for creating 3D ASCII pictures. It's the sort of thing I'd like to have a go at.

Here's a page that features examples of ASCII stereograms:

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~singlis/sirds/general.html

Hope it helps!