magic eye

British  

noun

1. a miniature cathode-ray tube in some radio receivers, on the screen of which a pattern is displayed in order to assist tuning

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Example Sentences

The raw numbers of the game are not a magic eye puzzle; they are barely even a Rorschach test.

From New York Times

I fled the forest as fast as possible, trying to get away from the giant magic eye.

From Literature

This image might look like a magic eye puzzle, but it’s actually the internal structure of a sassafras tree.

From Nature

"You look like the person who wins in the end. You're so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes," she whispered.

From Literature

Many of the items in the world have no immediate purpose; they are the ephemera of mid-90s life – cordless handsets, trapper keepers, magic eye pictures, music magazines promising Kurt Cobain tributes.

From Forbes