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Fuzzy logic board. True or false? Paper engineered changing words. #sciencemagic #illusion

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · May 12

Just one moving part… youtube.com/shorts/PnzHu...

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Jourdain’s postcard paradox meets my 3D ambigrams. True or false? #opticalillusion #paradox

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · May 10

Combining Philip Jourdain’s postcard paradox with one of my 3D ambigrams.

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Curious square to circle shape changer. A Terri Rogers idea that I’ve updated. #magic #geometry

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · May 2

A curious shape. youtube.com/shorts/NEeFq...

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Fuzzy logic version 3. Paper engineering. Pop up. Wonder. Illusion. Ambigram. True or false?

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Apr 29

An old video that seems to be having a resurgence. youtube.com/shorts/aujwJ...

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Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Apr 19

These shapes never overlap but if you view form a distance (or with blurred vision) they appear to. This is a static image but I’ve uploaded an animated one onto YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/0cq9L...

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Apr 18

Work in progress. See YouTube for final result: youtube.com/shorts/03RyA...

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Apr 15

A special illusion video for FISM. Purely analogue. No digital trickery. See the video on the official page on IG www.instagram.com/reel/DIeEfnM...

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Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Mar 5

The Ratatouille fountain at @disneylandparisen.bsky.social has a hidden animation built into it. I’ve made a video showing it in action comprising 16 frames repeated.
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Top ten magical builds of 2024. Magic, illusions and curious objects. Science magician.

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Mar 1

Each year I produce a compilation of the previous year’s illusions that I’ve made. This video on YouTube is not a full account of 2024 but it does feature 10 of my favourite hand crafted effects. Enjoy.
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These doughnuts are not moving position. Just shading. Snake apparent motion illusion.

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Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Feb 22

Another apparent motion illusion experiment. youtube.com/shorts/8E2sS...

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All animals are equal. Perspective optical illusion. Animal farm. George Orwell

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Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Feb 18

All animals are not equal. youtube.com/shorts/GpXKD...

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Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Feb 15

Variation on the Curvature blindness illusion by Kohske Takahashi. The line shapes does not change. The shading pattern creates the look of either circles or diamonds. View an animation here: youtube.com/shorts/bgK6C...

Invisible dinosaur illusion. Pause the video to make it vanish. #opticalillusion #jurassicpark

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Feb 10

I’ve remade this but using paper! Amazing camouflage. youtube.com/shorts/dIduy...

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Dr Sarah Bearchell 🌻 @sarahbearchell.bsky.social · Jan 24

Nice #OpticalIllusion from @sciencemagician.bsky.social

Pause the video and see what happens to the #dinosaur! I'll put an ALT description in the comments.

#HappyFriday!

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Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Jan 18

Nearly chose to watch that tonight. Opted for the Michael J Fox documentary ‘Still’ instead. Thanks for reinforcing my choice. 😀

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Jan 18

Think of a playing card. This video will read your mind. youtu.be/CPe6Hg22wd4?...

Christmas science magic craft. Try at home. Optical illusion. Noel. Maker

Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Dec 20

Magic plus science creates an Invisibility cloak for Harry Potter.

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Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Dec 18

A simple science magic trick for Christmas youtube.com/shorts/7ImaG...

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Matt Pritchard @sciencemagician.bsky.social · Dec 14

The small circles ARE moving around the larger one. But which way? #illusion