Sentence examples for optical trick from inspiring English sources

Each plays a different optical trick.

But is it anything more than an optical trick, a game of dancing facades best viewed from a distance?

Increasingly, physicists are constructing materials that bend light the "wrong" way, an optical trick that could lead to sharper-than-ever lenses or maybe even make objects disappear.

Chrétien's "hypergonar" adapters made use of an optical trick called anamorphosis, whereby a curved lens placed in front of an ordinary camera could squeeze a large field of vision into the frame.

A barmaid stands before a mirror in which the action is reflected – at an angle which is either impossible or the result of an optical trick by the artist, as is the case with the mirror in Las Meninas.

I am intrigued by the optical trick which makes the Recon's small display appear to be on a 14-inch screen five feet away, to eliminate the need for refocusing.

Do artists still conceal their optical tricks?

But did Hockney not notice the ostentatiously jokey optical tricks in this picture?

It wasn't just friends of Leonardo who mastered such optical tricks in Renaissance Italy.

Mr. Eliasson pulls back the curtain, revealing the humble technologies and optical tricks that lie behind his divine illusions.

Dalí plays optical tricks to multiply the obsessive self-regard of Narcissus, as a head becomes an egg, becomes a stone, in a world of infinite reflection.