beelzebub wrote:While I would be inclined to agree with you that there's not much evidence for it being an actual stereogram, you ought to know there is a distinction between a stereogram and an autostereogram. The latter is the "Magic Eye" sort of single image you are describing above. A stereogram is much more simply and consists of two separate images, both taken from a slightly different camera angle. Since the image has slightly different right and left channels, it COULD be a stereogram, although the utility of the stereo image is probably low.
The stuff in the background is definitely noise, and not continents. This is an incredibly noisy way to encode images, even assuming we actually used all the exactly correct parameters for decoding it (which is doubtful).
Still not sure what you're getting at. The image has
no repeating patterns to join a left and right image. The image doesn't have 'left and right channels'. It's simply noise.
Whether we're talking about an
autostereogram or a
stereogram, there is only one image, and it's noise. No stereogram or autostereogram here.