A parallax illusion uses six still frame slices of a moving picture back-lit behind a clear film with scrolling vertical black lines revealing only one frame of animation at a time to make a moving picture illusion.

The trick to getting the fluid, dynamic feel of real flames in an electric fireplace is surprisingly simple
Light from a light bulb, often an LED, bounces off of a rotisserie-style silver refractor with three-dimensional patterns that create the illusion of a random flicker of flame.

These two things need to be combined.

At random intervals. or at the push of a button a stallion might run through the coals of your fake fireplace or a dragon might fly though those flames or...

...well you get it.

Expecto Pyrotronum!!!
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 17 2024

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Better category found. Now search for a better subtitle?
-- yamahito, Dec 20 2024


"In search of a better subtitle"?
-- pocmloc, Dec 20 2024


[+] As a theater prop we used a small fan and colored silk scarves. When lit correctly it is startling.

Nowadays they just run a screen saver loop on a monitor. Flames don't repeat. Neither do scarves.
-- minoradjustments, Dec 20 2024



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