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- From: stuart@austin.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: alt.magic
- Subject: Re: Dave's Close-up
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.163837.25522@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 16:38:37 GMT
- References: <1992Jul16.201739.6755@nmt.edu> <1992Jul17.185930.21662@swbatl.sbc.com>
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- In article <1992Jul17.185930.21662@swbatl.sbc.com>, lrtpmah@oktext.sbc.com (M Hanan) writes:
- >
- > Any ideas on Copperfield's aluminum pan mental illusion trick
- > he performed during his "flying" special. Where he apparently
- > had a girl in the audience draw a symbol on paper ... and it
- > was recreated with ink in the aluminum pan.
- >
- > My guess is he might have used a wax of some sort and drew all
- > the possible objects ... then carefully manipulated the ink
- > so as to "form" the chosen design...
- > Thanks....
- >
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- My guess is that the 'ink' contained something that would be
- attracted to magnets. The pan had an battery operated electro magnet
- in the shape of the triangle-- when he turned on the power the ink
- was attracted to the magnet and formed the shape.
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- -Stuart
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