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Tim sends out well over 100 Christmas cards every year, and as well as choosing an unusual card, he also encloses all kinds of optical illusions and puzzles that he has come across during the year. Not surprisingly, he receives some very entertaining cards in return. And each year his favourite cards will be added to his amazing toy collection. But before he does that, he shares them here with you, on the Grand Illusions channel.
Tim’s friend Mark Setteducati always creates unusual cards, and this year his card is based around a concept called the Magic Square. But this is no normal Magic Square!
Tim received about ten cards with a deer theme, and some of them – as he shows here – were quite unusual.
From the USA, a card that opens like a paper Christmas decoration to form… a 3D ice cream sundae!
A card with a pixelated design which is hard to see when it is close, but as it is viewed from a distance, the design becomes clearer.
A Reverse Perspective card from the artist Patrick Hughes.
A paper umbrella with a witty message added around the edge of the umbrella.
A card with a Christmas tree and a fairy, where you need to get them to align.
A hidden message in the next card. Is the UV torch that comes with the card some kind of a clue?
A Santa character on a bike, but with artwork built around fractals.
Finally a pop up card with an amazing sailing ship. As Tim says… ‘wow’.
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120 cards I didn't even get one
I'm early, also….FIFTH COMMENT!
12:29 cattle thieves used those to hide footprints
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2:52 You say it's unique, but obviously there are ways to swap the numbers around that maintain these properties, for instance all symmetries of the square (Dihedral group of order 4 for the nerds in the crowd). Fairly sure that some other permutations of the columns or rows work too. If I had to guess, the correct statement would be that it's unique up to these symmetries.
The shoes look like they would make deer tracks, with front and rear footfalls close enough together they can both be made by one shoe. So two human footsteps = four deer prints.
I believe the shoes were designed by bootleggers to disguise their footprints in the woods.
The magic square card is META!
The magic square is on transparent plastic so that you don't need a mirror; you just flip the card around
Was able to go cross eyed. Saw the fairy on the tree. Very cool.
The shoes were used by an infamous cattle thief by the name of "Crazy Tex Hazel" in 1920, to hide his footprints
The cow shoes were used by moonshiners during prohibition days to hide their tracks as they completed their unlawful errands.
Amazing as always🥰🥰🥰
I love the longer formats highlighting a lot of something. I hope we see many more in 2023
That magic square is wild
11:46 I've heard shoes such as these were worn by moonshiners in America. The treads underneath were meant to resemble cow tracks, allowing the moonshiners to walk to and from their stills without their location being discovered by later searches of the fields or woods.
The shoes with cloven hooves were used by bootleggers and moon-shiners during the prohibition years in the US
Rip Tim. You will be missed
Those are superb cards!
Mathematical magic 😮
The shoes are used by old school cattle thieves trying to disguise their footprints
Fantastic video as always, but there is a little something I wonder: Instead of using a mirror for the first card, couldn't he just have turned it around vertically, since its transparent? 😀
The block picture effect is one of high frequency filtering and my favourite in this area is not a block picture at all, rather, a picture of Einstein that switches to a picture of Marilyn Monroe depending on viewing distance, all down to the visible frequency components. Edit: The shoes reminded me of a colour plate in the ancient encyclopeida we had 60+ years ago – try searching for "ancient platform shoes" and you will see similar example to those in the picture.
Merry Christmas forverr! 🎄🎅🤶🎄
12:33 – Assuming it's meant to have a "Christmassy" connection, maybe those are reindeer hooves.
You got 120 times more cards than me Tim! 😢
The hoove shoes were for moonshiners (people making alcohol during prohibition in the u.s.) to get to and from their stills in the woods without the cops or others seeing footprints and finding them.
The shoes are for smugglers. Moonshiners.
Why did Tim ditch the second to last card? lol. The ship is amazing though.
So Tim is friends with Mark Setteducati, who is also friends with Jimmy Diresta. Does Tim know him? That would be a crazy YouTube crossover.
12:26 obviously the shoes trick any viewer of the footprints into thinking a hooved animal made its way over a track of land to suppress suspicion that a human has infiltrated the presmises.
A wonderful set of cards,Tim!!
final pop up ship card was magnificent
These are classics. Very enjoyable 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
The pixel pics are ACE! Shakespeare revealed in miniature. I am relieved to learn that the reindeer get to have a good time after all that hard work Blind spot tricks also are a hoot. Hoping 2023 coming up to snuff. 🌟👍
PS The maremorph at the end is SUBLIME! 👍
Those are cattle rustling shoes.
8:02 – Press for "woo!"
I feel sorry for all the people who sent Tim Christmas cards that he won't keep because they weren't interesting enough.
There are 16 squares…
Makes it sound like the other cards weren't appreciated I got one this year and it was the best, no gimmicks or anything
Shoes like that used to be used so feet didn't touch wet bathhouse floors in Turkey, I think the joke here is that it's a camel
I heard that the shoes belonged to cows thieves in order to conceal their footprints.
The Waffle House has found its new host
Elf jobs are highly aerobic
But stressful – they constantly go quick
One had an attack
Caused by Santa's red sack
Turns out he's just Claustrophobic