Development
Dr. Julesz emigrated from Hungary to the United States following the 1956 Soviet invasion. After his arrival, he found himself working at Bell Labs, alongside many other great names in mathematics. One of his projects involved detecting patterns in the output of random number generators. Dr. Julesz decided to try mapping the numbers into images and using the pattern-detecting capabilities of the human brain to look for a lack of randomness.
In 1840, Sir Charles Wheatstone developed the stereoscope. Using the stereoscope, two photographs, taken a small horizontal distance apart, could be viewed with the objects in the scene appearing to be 3-dimensional. Over 100 years later, Dr. Julesz noticed that two identical random images similar to what he had produced in his previously mentioned project, when viewed through a stereoscope, appeared as if they were projected onto a uniform flat surface. He experimented with the image pair by shifting a square in the center of one of the images by a small amount. When this pair was viewed through the stereoscope, however, the square appeared to rise out from the page.
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