File talk:Stereo Pair, Lake Palanskoye Landslide, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.jpg
Design of this image: Converging vs. diverging, and embedded text[编辑]
There has been a discussion for this image on English Wikipedia for some time, with several people suggesting that it is "wrong" -- because it requires one to converge one's eyes to view it. In contrast, "Magic Eye" stereograms use divergent viewing, and that seems to be what many people expect.
Now, to me, "crossing" one's eyes (as instructed by the image) has always meant "converging". (Being "cross-eyed" certainly means this, in contrast with "wall-eyed", though that's properly only having divergent eyes as a medical condition.) Maybe we could have two versions of the image on Commons, one using either technique; in fact there's a version of the image (on English Wikipedia only) that reverses the pair (and also declares itself by its filename to be the "correct" one). I personally don't think this is the way to go, but it's a suitable compromise.
The other issue with this image is its embedded text. If it must have some, we should also have a version of the image without it, to ease translations. (A losslessly cropped JPEG would be ideal.) Any comments? -- Perey (talk) 15:17, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
