In the 1990 video game Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, an old witch named Mizrabel takes form based on the Evil Queen after draining the youth from Minnie Mouse.
In these five (the last of a series created from 2000 to 2005) take-offs on kosode, 17th-century precursors to the Japanese kimono, John Cederquist plays his usual witty game of dimensional illusion, with 3-D morphing into 2-D and vice versa.
The planetarium is top notch, the Miniature Railroad and Village is a charming evocation of the dawn of the 20th century, and SportsWorks is a kind of interactive gym display where kids can rock climb, race and test their coordination in a game of optical-illusion miniature golf.
"The spectator is immersed in a world of colors, moving forms and travels into an imaginary and poetic game of optical illusions," writes the project's description.
All digital design is to some extent a game of metaphor and illusion.
This game of perception and illusion plays with what is not quite real, despite the concrete reality of the objects themselves whose forms are shaped by darkness but also respond to the light.
But that narrative pales beside the enthralling story of Wilderness's adventures in espionage ("It was just a game, a game of manners and illusions and deceptions... a game he could play") and Lawton's harrowing descriptions of life in the battered nations of Europe in 1945, when the war was officially over but never seemed to end.
The first was a sense that the whole financial basis on which Enron rose and fell was "that most theatrical of entities, just a game, an illusion, a system of belief".
The fluidity and speed of his compositions make you feel like you're watching a sleight of hand game or illusion as you try and follow the film's female protagonist.
But nothing is as simple as it seems and both men are caught up in a game of strategy, deceit and illusions, one that holds dangers for them both.
