Exhibit
Hidden Word stereogram
The word MAGIC hides inside a terrazzo floor — five capital letters baked into a scattered stone pattern. Rendered live with a fixed seed.
Reveal answer
Rendered locally in your browser — nothing is downloaded from or uploaded to a server. Stuck? Open "Reveal answer" to see the depth map you are looking for, then fold it away and try again.
Hold the screen at arm's length and look through it, as if focusing on something behind the glass. The pattern will blur, double, and then snap into depth. New to this? The two-dot drill in How to View makes it much easier.
What is hidden in this image
The capital letters M-A-G-I-C in a bold sans-serif typeface, drawn on a flat baseline. The text spans roughly the central third of the width and sits in the upper-middle of the safe zone. There are no other shapes or decorations.
About the Terrazzo texture
Terrazzo is a pale beige ground scattered with small polygonal chips in grey-blue, amber, taupe, charcoal and sand. Each chip is a 3- to 5-sided polygon with random rotation, giving the surface the look of a polished stone floor. The low-contrast, neutral palette is quiet enough that the letter silhouettes read clearly.
Why this pairing
Text in a stereogram needs a pattern that does not fight the glyph edges. Terrazzo's scattered polygons are small and irregular, so they rarely align into false horizontal bands. The beige ground is light enough that the dark letter shapes read clearly against it. The piece is rendered with a depth cap that keeps the narrow strokes stable.
Where to look first
Let your eyes relax across the whole width of the image; the word usually appears as a horizontal band of raised or recessed rectangles. The letter tops (M and A peaks) are often the first readable features, followed by the straight back of the G and the final C curve. If individual letters seem to float, focus on the baseline — the flat line they all sit on usually locks first and pulls the rest into place.
What may be hard to see
Text demands more steady gaze than simple shapes because glyph strokes are narrow and close together. The G counter (the enclosed loop) is small and may look like a shallow dimple rather than a clean hole. The I is only a thin stroke and can be lost if the gaze is not steady. The piece is rendered with a depth cap that keeps the narrow strokes stable. In our editorial judgement this is a medium piece — a guideline, not a measured success rate.