Among the most unusual and fascinating fashion books I've seen in a long time is Paper Illusions: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave (Abrams, $75) by Barbara and René Stoeltie.
In 1998, the paper dragon illusion was inspired by Jerry Andrus for a celebration of Martin Gardner, one of the great mathematical games minds of our time.
No more idiotic than for me to labor over Latin incantations on little scraps of paper in the illusion that they alone will make a difference in my patient's health and life.
It is a neat depiction of one of Escher's enduring fascinations: the contrast between the two-dimensional flatness of a sheet of paper and the illusion of three-dimensional volume that can be created with certain marks.
Carrying medical equipment or papers reinforces the illusion of being busy.
An early, personal level application of the notion is Tim Crane's paper on the waterfall illusion (Crane 1988a. An illustration of the waterfall illusion, also known as the motion aftereffect illusion, can be found here).
"If you put in a lot of paper, you give the illusion that you might have something more than you actually have — an illusion of making something out of nothing," said Gary P. Naftalis, a lawyer for Mr. Gupta.
"If you put in a lot of paper, you give the illusion that you might have something more than you actually have — an illusion of making something out of nothing," Mr. Naftalis said.
Riley's work plays inventively with the space between retina and paper, filling it with illusion and a magical freedom of form.
Last summer, three computer scientists at U.S.C. published a paper called "The Majority Illusion in Social Networks," which described, in mathematical terms, how limited behaviors can propagate based on who knows whom, and who is especially well-connected or popular.
