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Disappearing Girl Act With A Twist

 Magician's assistant doesn't just disappear, she fades away.
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Common trick is the gal is in a box, cage whatever and they throw a sheet over it. Pull away the sheet and the woman is either gone or changed into a tiger or something.

With this trick no sheet it thrown over the performer, she's in a glass box and after some magic incantations from the magician, she slowly fades from view. Then after a few more incantations, a tiger or something appears in her place, maybe even appearing from a puff of smoke.

The way it's done is you're not looking through glass, you're looking at a video image of the person / tiger, whatever, as the cube is made of video screens and the interior is lined with hundreds of cameras, the images from which are fed into a program to create the images projected on the screens.

So when the assistant gets in the cage, a real time video of them climbing in is projected as it would be viewed if it were simply a glass box, then the image is faded to the video cameras showing an empty box. The tiger is moved in, and that live shot is faded in.

—doctorremulac3, Apr 03 2023

This https://www.youtube...watch?v=29eEWsXWSGc
[doctorremulac3, Apr 03 2023]

That's not a twist, *this* is a twist ;) https://www.youtube...watch?v=eXKE0nAMmg4
[Skewed, Apr 04 2023]

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       Parallax?
—pocmloc, Apr 03 2023
   

       I expected something unexpected.   

       I think it was the with a twist bit in the title that lent me that expectation.   

       How about using a different girl who's then never seen again every night?   

       Could make an interesting social experiment, a how long does it take before people notice, comment on it, voice concern and contact the police thing.
—Skewed, Apr 04 2023
   

       Sounds like a reasonable horror movie plot.
—doctorremulac3, Apr 04 2023
   

       Using video/projectors/computer graphics for "illusions" is a bit meh. Turns a stage show into a movie, & also has the parallax errors others have mentioned (same reason car rear-view-mirrors are mostly better than cameras).
—neutrinos_shadow, Apr 04 2023
   

       I'd say whatever technology gets the illusion across would be acceptable, but okay.
—doctorremulac3, Apr 04 2023
   
      
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