Amusement device completing composite image by reflection
OwnerMark Setteducatiinventor
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An amusement device has an image carrying substrate with a corrugated surface with a transverse mirror at a rear end and is marked with first and second sets of strip-like image fragments forming, respectively, first and second composite image components. Image fragments of the second set are both differently shaped, laterally inverted and arranged alternately along the image surface relative to image fragments of the first set so that the corrugations selectively expose image fragments of the first and second sets to the front, away from the reflecting surface, and to the rear, for reflection in the reflecting surface, so that the image fragments of first and second sets combine to form first and second image components, respectively, seen by viewing, simultaneously, directly from the front and by reflection so that first and second image components combine to provide a continuous composite image not readily predicted by a casual spectator.
An amusement device comprising an image carrying substrate with an image surface having a front end and a rear end and means for providing a reflecting surface extending transversely from the rear end, the image surface being marked with a first set of image fragments and a second set of image fragments for forming, respectively, first and second composite image components, image fragments of the second set being both differently shaped or configured and laterally inverted to image fragments of the first set and arranged alternately along the image surface to image fragments of the first set, selection means on the substrate for selectively exposing the image fragments of the first set to the front, away from the reflecting surface, and for selectively exposing the image fragments of the second set to the rear, for, simultaneous reflection in the reflecting surface, so that the image fragments of the first set and the image fragments of the second set combine to form first and second image components, respectively, seen by viewing the first set of image fragments directly from the front and by viewing, simultaneously, the second set of image fragments by reflection in the transversely extending reflecting surface so that the first and second image components combine to provide a continuous composite image which cannot be readily predicted by a spectator casually viewing the image surface.
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