The bad news is that the heyday of stereograms has somewhat passed. The 1990's saw a flurry of activity - corresponding to the technical developments which made stereograms possible.

The good news is that the books that were written are just as relevant today, as they were when they were written!

Recreational Viewing (Images)

• Incredible Stereogram Eye Tricks (2005)
  Gary Priester, Gene Levine
  Chartwell Books
  ISBN 0-785820-55-8

  Review in work ...

• Stereogram (2002)
  Howard Rheingold
  VIZ Media LLC
  ISBN 0-929279-85-9

  Review in work ...

• Create Stereograms on Your PC (1995)
  Dan Richardson
  Waite Group Press
  ISBN 1-878739-75-1

  In a nutshell, the book covers the basic theory and history of stereograms. It also includes quite a few image mostly black and white, but with some color images as well. Most of the book describes how to create stereograms using the eight (8) programs included with the book.

• Stereogram Programming Techniques (1994)
  Watkins, Mallette
  Charles River Media
  ISBN 1-886801-00-2

  Despite the title, the book spends a great deal of time going over the history of stereograms, including its many variations. Several of the chapters are provided by guest authors, so the book does not provide a consistent thread. The chapters include a great deal of source code and there is a floppy disk with more software and code. I'd like to have seen much more commenting on the code, and on several aspects of the algorithms which were only mentioned in passing.

• Making Random Dot Stereograms (1994)
  Bob Hankinson, Alfonso Hermida
  Que Publications
  ISBN 1-565299-94-9

  Contains the discussions on stereogram concepts and history, along with various images (B&W as well as color). It effectively uses random text stereograms to explain how a single image stereogram works. In addition to explaining how to use the stereogram generation software that comes with the book, the author spends a fair amount of time showing how to create a depth mask using PaintBrush.