Sentence examples for classic illusion from inspiring English sources

But for another classic illusion polymer brings advances: The trick of taking someone's money, marking it and making it reappear in a piece of fruit.

The good continuation principle also explains why we see two large overlapping triangles in this classic illusion, rather than a jumble of shapes and lines.

At the beginning of the millennium, the world of the occult veered slightly away from classic illusions and focused more on large-scale endurance acts.

Two psychology graduate students decided to express their love by getting his-and-hers Necker Cubes, a classic optical illusion.

May 28 2014 May 31 201414 The goal of "Within Between" is to resist classification, and much of its intellectual excitement recalls the classic visual illusion in which one sees both rabbit and duck.

Entering the education center, the visitor is welcomed by an enormous three-dimensional life mask of Washington inset in the wall; in a classic optical illusion, the eyes seem to follow the visitor into the first gallery.

Such instability continues right through to one of his final works in 2009, a window for a cathedral in Zurich, in which he recreated the classic optical illusion, Rubin's Vase, in which the outline of two faces make a vase.

Escher's classic optical illusion painting "Waterfall".

But until signing on as the chief magic and mentalism consultant on the caper sequel "Now You See Me 2," Barry had never tried to pull off the classic decapitation illusion on anyone — let alone a high-profile actress.

A mixture of mainstream, probable Oscar winners ("The Master"), exclusive-to-the-area Sundance darlings ("Hello I Must Be Going") and foreign classics ("Grand Illusion") will make up the opening week.

In the entertaining five-minute animated short (below), Jacobs breaks down three classic optical illusions, explaining that they reveal the "brain's job as a busy director of 3D animation in a studio inside your skull, allocating cognitive energy and constructing a world on the fly with tried and mostly, but not always, true tricks of its own". .