Can you solve it? The art of illusion
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#58T5T)
A magician asks you to explain his tricks
Today's puzzles are four optical illusions devised by the magician Matt Pritchard. He calls them perspec-tricks'. Each image is a photograph that seems to show something impossible. The puzzle is to work out exactly how Matt created the illusion.
The magic he used is old school: none of the photographs has been digitally modified. What you see is exactly what the camera saw. All the illusions involve mirrors in some way.
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