Uncle Peters Corner

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 14

Uncle Peters Corner

Fig.—a—How To Make ‘‘Magic

Views.” A magic view is a picture which shows three different subjects as j'Oti alter j*our position in relation to it. Threo pictures are necessary, exactly the same size, and preferably in bright colours, for example pictures from a coloured magazine. One of the pictures is the “foundation" picture, and is therefore stuck neatly on to a piect of thick cardboard or thin wood. Tho cardboard should preferably be about an inch larger than tho picture on all

sides. Now we must be very exact. The two remaining pictures are to be pasted on each side of a piece of thin, stiff'carton, so that they cover exactly the same space on each side. In order to make these pictures as smooth us possible it is advisable to press the card while the glue dries. When quite dry, the card is trimmed so that there is a small space outside the picture at the top and bottom, but no surplus at the sides. The double picture is now cut into strips with a very sharp knife, and it is therefore divided up into, for

I*ig.—c—Solution to the Intelligence j Test. The wood is cut as shown in fig. 2 and j put together in fig. 3, the desired measurements will then be achieved.

instance, 1G equally large pieces (not so many are necessary if tho picture is not very big). Having cut up the picture (use a ruler!), you have only to attach them like a kind of fence in front of tho foundation picture. This “fence" is shown in fig 4, seen from tho front; tho white, upright strokes are tho strips of the double picture, and tho black lines at the top and bottom are thin strips of wood or cardboard, with small indentations to which tho white edges at the top and bottom of the strips are glued. The distance between the strips must be exactly the

same as the breadth of the strips. Fig. 5 shows a picture of the finished “fence," drawn with only a few lines to make it clearer. Of course you must be careful not to mix up the strips iu putting them in place; all the left side-: (A in Fig 5) should together form a complete pictifre, ju.-t as all the right sides (B in fig. 5) also make a picture. Now stick the fence on top of the foundation picture and make a frame for the whole affair—and the magi'* view is read}’ for the admiration of your friends and family.